Posted on 06/17/2024 8:43:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BOSTON -- The Boston Celtics again stand alone among NBA champions.
Jayson Tatum had 31 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds as the Celtics topped the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 on Monday night to win the franchise’s 18th championship, breaking a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history.
Boston earned its latest title on the 16th anniversary of hoisting its last Larry O’Brien Trophy in 2008. It marks the 13th championship won this century by one of the city’s Big 4 professional sports franchises.
Jaylen Brown added 21 points and was voted the NBA Finals MVP. Jrue Holiday finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Center Kristaps Porzingis also provided an emotional lift, returning from a two-game absence because of a dislocated tendon in his left ankle to chip in five points in 17 minutes.
It helped the Celtics cap a postseason that saw them go 16-3 and finish with an 80-21 overall record. That .792 winning percentage ranks second in team history behind only the Celtics’ 1985-86 championship team that finished 82-18 (.820).
Second-year coach Joe Mazzulla, at age 35, also became the youngest coach since Bill Russell in 1969 to lead a team to a championship.
Luka Doncic finished with 28 points and 12 rebounds for Dallas, which failed to extend the series after avoiding a sweep with a 38-point win in Game 4. The Mavericks had been 3-0 in Game 5s this postseason, with Doncic scoring at least 31 points in each of the them.
Kyrie Irving finished with just 15 points on 5-of-16 shooting and has now lost 13 of the last 14 meetings against the Celtics team he left in the summer of 2019 to join the Brooklyn Nets.
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Virtue signaling is a thing of the past. Nobody cares any more.
The Celtics always had loyal fans.
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Nice to see that leftist prick Mark Cuban lose
But not so much the NBA. The ratings are the lowest since they went woke and started smearing their fans. And during Covid we were without them for months, did anyone really miss the NBA? For most of us the answer would be no.
I didn’t but I have friends with season tickets that missed them a lot.
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Mark Cuban owns 27% of the Mavericks, I’m glad they lost.
Not that I care anything about Boston but I’m really happy because that jerk Mark Cuban’s team didn’t win.
Being a pre-Lebron Lakers fan, boooo. Hating on leftist Mark Cuban, part owner of Dallas. yeah!!
Because it must be continously pointed out that while the left continues its communist march towards complete domination of our entire government and culture, and waging lawfare against their enemies, and punishing even the lowliest working Americans,....the Right just cannot get its collective head out of its ass and stop being distracted by completely useless professional sports.
When some leftist reporter asked Mazzulla about being a black head coach in the finals, he didn’t take the bait and instead asked the reporter how come now one asks him about being a Christian head coach in the finals.
It’s Sportsball! Don’t you care about Sportsball?
A lot of that Jaylen Brown stuff is BS. He came to Boston claiming talents and achievements beyond basketball he didn’t really have at any level to speak of.
But he’s physically gifted, he has kept working hard, and he has overcome his years of low-IQ play to finally minimize the boneheaded plays and better see the court.
He’s also, of course, a very wealthy young man.
That’s not indifference.
You expressed my thoughts exactly. Thank you.
In other sports news, Bryson DeChambeau won his second masters on Sunday.
The NBA is unwatchable.
Celtics used to be my team, back when Larry Bird was playing. That’s when BB had some great players and great rivalries.
Glad they won but I just can’t watch it anymore.
Growing up, I was a Celtics fan. I guess Red Auerbach is celebrating with a cigar with GOD and the late Celtics players...
God? I doubt it.
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