The NBA Playoffs begin this Saturday. Late season drama was limited, with the Detroit Pistons holding onto the eight seed in the East. We have known the Western Conference playoffs for a while, but the seedings altered in the final days of the regular season, changing the first-round matchups.
In all seriousness, the Celtics currently have a few small issues rather than a big one, which is much easier to deal with. Whether some of the young guys have been put off by the constant Anthony Davis rumours with the team, I don’t know. The only way we will find out is if the team put their heads down and work for each other and the team, rather than themselves.
With LeBron James on the other side of the country, the Eastern Conference is wide open. Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics are all competing to make the NBA Finals and there is little to pick between the East’s top four.
All in all, Ainge has used his business brain to good use once again. He is currently playing chess whilst everyone else is playing checkers and it’s fantastic to watch. The next couple of days will be the be all and end all for his masterplan but either way, you have to rate his effort in stopping LA getting their big three together.
The weeks leading up to the NBA trade deadline have been heating up, blockbuster trades, trade requests and ambiguous quotes are coming out left, right and centre. One of the main players in this rumour mill is Kyrie Irving.
Kyrie Irving was asked if he has changed his mind about signing with Boston in the summer. He said, “Ask me on July 1”, as reported by Ian Begley.
Jaylen Brown was on top of the world at the end of last season. Injuries to Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving allowed Brown, along with Terry Rozier and Jayson Tatum, to take centre stage as the Boston Celtics pushed the Cleveland Cavaliers to Game Seven in the Eastern Conference Finals. Irving and Hayward returned for …
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The NBA playoffs begin this weekend. After 82 games of regular season action, 16 NBA teams have to up their standards once again for the intensity of postseason basketball. It’ll require some late night watching for British fans, but we’re used to that. The first round matchups are brilliant this season, with the potential for …
The Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors received bad news over the weekend. Kyrie Irving and Steph Curry were both ruled out for the remainder of the regular season and are due to miss playoff action. Irving’s prognosis has lined up to come back any time during the first round through to the back end …
With it being Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward‘s birthday today I thought it would fitting to see how things are over in Boston. I am a massive Celtics fan and have been for a good part of a decade now, probably longer. I must say I am only 19 so it’s not like I jumped …
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Boston Celtics head coach, Brad Stevens, gave a definitive answer on Gordon Hayward’s season on Saturday when speaking to the media in Houston ahead of the Celtics’ meeting with the Rockets.
