The Boston Celtics Are Doing it Again…

The Boston Celtics Are Doing it Again…

Boston Celtics are the best team in the NBA like how sold are you on the Boston C Celtics going win a championship if they can fix those problems they will be Champion i l Championship 28y old jayen G I’m going go ahead and say five or six

You know we all got to be willing to do more cuz we haven’t accomplished what we trying to do the Boston Celtics are historically one of the most successful franchises in all of sports they won their first championship in the 1950s nearly every NBA Finals in the 1960s two

More championships in the 1970s and three more in the 198 80s but since winning their 16th Championship in 1986 their 2008 Championship is the only one they’ve captured since and trust me they’ll consistently remind you about that I’m a champion too go ahead you know Chuck you almost a champion and yet

This version of the Boston Celtics is still missing a championship this year Celtics have owned the League’s best record for most of the Season operating as the clear Championship favorites but being the favorites also brings immense expectations and anything less than a championship this season will be a

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Up until $100 make sure you check out my story right now to see if I entered my Caitlyn Clark pick and thank you prize pick for the sponsor mik check 1212 what’s going on everybody on draft night in 2013 the Boston Celtics traded franchise Legends Paul Pierce and Kevin

Garnett to the Brooklyn Nets along with Jason Terry in exchange the Boston Celtics received five players and a hall of first round picks the Celtics would get Brooklyn’s first round picks in 2014 2016 and 2018 and crucially the right to swap first round picks with the Nets in

2017 those draft picks would eventually form the core of Boston’s Resurgence to the upper echelon of the NBA’s landscape meanwhile the trade was an absolute unmitigated disaster for Brooklyn they won 44 games the following year before getting smashed in the second round of the 2014 playoffs by the Miami Heat they

Barely squeaked into the 2015 playoffs with a losing record before losing in the first round Paul Pierce only played one horrible season in Brooklyn while Kevin Garnett got traded back to Minnesota in his second season with the Nets the Nets would go on to be one of

The the League’s worst teams in each of the next three seasons between 2015 and 2018 conversely the Boston Celtics benefited tremendously using Brooklyn’s failures for their own gain in 2014 they used Brooklyn’s pick to take James Young’s 17th overall and while he turned out to be a bust they also drafted

Marcus Smart’s sixth overall with their own pick in 2016 they used their third overall pick from Brooklyn to take Jaylen Brown they Ed their pick swap ability to land the number one overall pick in 2017 after finishing with the east’s best record and they ended up trading that pick to the Philadelphia

76ers to move down to the third overall pick to select Jason Tatum they included Brooklyn’s 2018 first round pick in the trade that landed them Kyrie Irving and while Kyrie Irving’s 2-year tenure in Boston wasn’t exactly a successful One Brown and Tatum Rose to become the backbone of the organization thanks to

One of the greatest trade heists in NBA history in fact the aftermath of the deal proved to be so one-sided that the league even contemplated Banning trades with three or more future unprotected or lightly protected picks even before jayen and Jason took the team’s Reigns they had magical Seasons from Isaiah

Thomas who helped get them back into the playoffs in 2015 and 2016 before advancing to the 2017 Eastern Conference Finals now Thomas would leave town in the Kyrie Irving trade which gave the Celtics their new best player who led them to the second seed during the 2017

To 2018 regular season but Boston got a glimpse into their future when Kyrie Irving underwent season ending surgery before the 2018 playoffs Tatum and brown became the League’s leading scorers and fueled the young Celtics to a surprise run to a second straight appearance in the Eastern Conference Finals they

Pushed LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers to a rock fight in game seven and although they lose the series Jason Tatum captured the hope of the fan base with his legendary fourth quarter posterizer over LeBron James a sign of a hopeful things to come in the Eastern Conference at least that’s what the

Boston Celtics fan base was hoping for Kyrie Irving returned The Following Season as the Celtics best player once again again but after bowing out of the second round of the 2019 playoffs he would leave to team up with Kevin Durant in Brooklyn the Celtics would sign kembell Walker as Kyrie’s replacement

But the 2019 to 2020 season marked the true beginning of a new era led by Tatum and brown the Jays each had their first season averaging over 20 points per game alongside kembell Walker while Tatum and Walker each made the All-Star team in the NBA bubble Boston swept Philadelphia

In the first round of the playoffs before winning a grueling seven game series over the Toronto Raptors in the second round they would lose to the Miami Heat in the team’s third Conference Finals appearance in four years but an unsettling Trend began emerging for their opponents now Jason

Tatum and Jaylen Brown were only in their early 20s which isn’t even close to a basketball player’s Prime and yet they were powering the Celtics to deep playoff runs however The Following Season ultimately served as a speed bump where Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown became Allstars together for the first

Time combining to average roughly 51 points per game but Boston struggled to win consistently with kemell Walker missing nearly half the season while he battled injuries Boston finished the 2020 to 2021 season 500 and when they got to the playoffs they were overwhelmed by the Nets without Jaylen Brown and an inconsistent availability

From kampbell Walker the unusually early playoff exit would lead to major changes that off season team president Danny y who had run the Boston Celtics since 2003 stepped down seeding the position to Brad Stevens who had been Boston’s head coach since they began their rebuild a decade prior to replace Brad

Stevens Boston hired eme udoka and although the organization agreed a new voice was needed it didn’t yield the intended results right away and in fact it seemed like their situation had only gotten worse Jason Tatum made the All-Star team again but Jaylen Brown missed the mid-season classic because of

An early injury and the Celtics underwhelming record the season involved some major bumps early with Marcus Smart calling out Jason Tatum and jayen brown the fan base was clamoring for the Boston Celtics to break up Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown as well public criticism from udoka and a losing record

Entering the New Year 50 games in and the Boston Celtics were once again sitting at 500 with a 25 to 25 win loss record just like the year prior but something would completely flip the script for the Boston Celtics as when January turned into February the Celtics would trade for Derek white and

Immediately Boston rallied to race up the standings to finish 51 and 31 and second in the east in the first round of the playoffs they exacted some revenge on the Brooklyn Nets sweeping them in the first first round before facing a crucial moment for the Tatum and brown

Pairing Boston Trail 3 to2 in their second round Series against the defending Champion Milwaukee Bucks with their backs against the wall on the road Jason Tatum wed his team to Victory with 46 points in a superstar performance proving to the world that he could go blow for blow with the likes of Giannis

And adako even though the Greek Freak was missing Chris Middleton the whole series milwauke didn’t have much left in the tank after that with Boston Running Away with an easy game seven Victory to clinch yet another trip to the Conference Finals the Celtics were determined to finally punch through the

East and get to the NBA finals they played in another physical seven game series against the top seated Miami Heat the series lead changed hands multiple times Tatum and brown each had big performances combining to average nearly 50 points per game culminating in a wire-to-wire game seven victory in Miami

Tatum won his first ever Eastern Conference Finals MVP and this iteration of the Boston Celtics would have their first shot at a championship but in the NBA finals against the Golden State Warriors things would go badly for Jason Tatum and the Boston Celtics Boston jumped out to a 2 to1 Series lead thanks

To big offensive performances in Games 1 and three but the Celtics withered away the rest of the series as the Warriors went in to win the series in six games Boston failed to reach 100 points in each of their four losses Tatum picked the worst time to have his worst series

Averaging just 21 points per game while shooting an abysmal 36% from the field Tatum had his chance but his performance showed he wasn’t the superstar that could lead his team to a championship at least not yet while the 2022 to 23 season began with the surprise suspension of eeme udoka for violating

Team policies the season largely played out similarly to the season prior minus the slow start the Celtics held a strong record for nearly the entire season powered by All-Star Seasons from Tatum and brown once again Jason Tatum even won the All-Star game MVP with a game record 55 points Boston had acquired

Malcolm Brogden before the season and he flourished as the team’s third guard eventually winning Sixth Man of the Year the team was humming so well that they named interim head coach Joe Missoula as the permanent head coach officially moving on from eme udoka Tatum averaged 30 points per game and had more total

Points than any other player during the regular season Tatum finished fourth in MVP voting and was named to the all NBA first team for the second year in a row meanwhile Jaylen Brown ended up on the all NBA second team which would set up a pivotal contract negotiation that summer

However in the inup Boston looked to return to the NBA finals they took down the Atlanta Hawks in the first round before going the distance in a seven-game series against Philadelphia Tatum had another Superstar moment in game seven with a 51-point performance which was good enough to be the third

Most in Celtics playoff history while simultaneously leading Boston to a blowout Victory to clinch the series but facing the Miami Heat once again in the Conference Finals the Boston Celtic season took a turn for the worst the Celtics fell behind o to3 in the series and although they came all the way back

Back to force a game seven they faltered when they returned home Brown had a whopping eight turnovers Tatum scored just 14 points looking nothing like the game seven Tatum from the previous round and the Celtics scored just 84 points in a devastating loss which cost them the

Series it was the team’s fifth trip to the Eastern Conference Finals in seven seasons and yet once again the Celtics were good just not good enough the Celtics 2023 off season featured three major moves that would set the stage for the season to come first in June they

Acquired christs zingis in a three- team trade that cost the Marcus Smart before signing him to an extension in July they signed Jaylen Brown to the richest contract in NBA history a 5-year super max extension wor $34 million a deal he was eligible to receive because of his

All NBA selection finally in early October with Drew holiday in Portland as a remnant of the Damen Lillard trade Boston swooped in to acquire him in exchange for Malcolm Brogden The Talented but injury-prone Robert Williams and two first round picks with their new starting lineup now firmly in

Place expectations were Skyhigh for a team that was no longer a young group yearning for an unexpected deep playoff run these Celtics entered the season as the Championship favorites with the highest over underline in the league but even with the expectations attached to them these Celtics still haven’t won

Anything as Jason Tatum reiterated on media day we should all feel like we got to do a little bit more cuz we didn’t win so whatever we’ done has been great but it hasn’t been enough so for myself on Down the Line everybody has to sacrifice or be willing willing to do

More whatever it is you know we all got to be willing to do more cuz we haven’t accomplished what we trying to do with expectations through the roof the Boston Celtics responded by playing like the best team in the league this season the Celtics have six streaks of five wins or

More they’ve only lost two consecutive games twice and they’ve not lost three straight games all season they won three games by 50 or more points this season the most in NBA history their 11 game winning streak in late February and early March featured the greatest Point differential during any 11 game stretch

In NBA history even with Boston’s occasional hiccups like when Cleveland’s Dean Wade single-handedly outscore them in the fourth quarter to snap that streak the Celtics are still sitting pretty at top the East the Celtics have such a firm grip in the standings that only a catastrophic injury or collapse

Would prevent them from clinching the League’s top record they became the first team to clinch a playoff birth this season the starting lineup of white and holiday in the back court with brown Tatum and porzingis in the front court has been phenomenal going 26 seven as one of the League’s strongest lineups

There’s not much drop off in their winning percentage when Al Horford starts with porzingis out the Celtics not only have the best offensive rating in the league they also have the second best defensive rating in the league on top of all of that Boston’s net rating

Which is also the best in the league by a wide margin is tied for the third best net rating in NBA history almost all the teams around them on the list went on to win the NBA Finals the team’s Ascension to the top of the standings can be

Largely attributed to Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown who were all stars once again but also helped smooth the transition for the team’s major offseason acquisitions both of the Jays had their scoring and rebounding numbers decreased from last season but their shooting numbers and assists have been slight increases their buyin has this

Team humming in a way that is rare even by historical NBA standards and yet when fans look back on this team and this era of Celtics basketball they’ll ultimately judge them based on what happens in the playoffs and rightfully so Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown have only appeared in

One final with Tatum in particular struggling on the biggest stage he likely won’t win MVP this season although he’ll receive some votes and his reputation doesn’t seem like it will change much if Boston fails to win a championship this season and if the Celtics don’t win it at all this season

It’ll be difficult for them to do anything substantial to improve the team in the short term committing to Jaylen brown with his supermax extension essentially put Boston on the clock financially speaking the new collective bargaining agreement imposed a new Financial Benchmark called the second apron essentially any team that’s spends

Enough money to enter the second apron which is $82.5 million or more is severely restricted when it comes to roster building mechanisms some examples of penalties include no sign in trades if it keeps the team above the apron no cash can be used in a trade limits on

Trade exceptions and if the team remains in the second apron three times in a 5year span their first round pick is automatically moved to the end of the first round Boston is already in the second apron and that’s before Jason Tatum’s expected supermax extension as well as Drew h holidays expected free

Agency and Derek white who’s extension eligible this off season Boston has an excellent starting five but building around them will be incredibly difficult especially once they carry two super max players plus Al Horford whose impact on the team goes far beyond his numbers will turn 38 during the 2024 NBA Finals

The Celtics are going all in on this version of the team that may not have a better chance to win a championship than this year the expectations are clear just as Tatum acknowledged before the season is a pressure yeah I mean we got a really good team we got really good

Players people expect us to get to the championship and win and we don’t you know we didn’t necessarily meet expectations it’s a handful of teams each year that realistically can probably win the championship and we’re in that mix you know we that’s what we’re aiming for and uh and that’s what

We should be aiming for this Celtics team is no longer the same group that was just happy to be competitive in the Eastern Conference Finals there may be no team with more Championship pressure this season than the Boston Celtics is this the team that belongs next to some

Of the best teams in recent memory or did they just get lucky through a historic trade over a decade ago is Jason Tatum truly an MVP level player or is he someone who will ultimately disappoint on the biggest stage those questions won’t be answered for a while

But in the meantime we might be witnessing one of the most pressure-filled seasons of excellence in NBA history let me know in the comments section down below are you expecting the Boston Celtics to do it yet again aside from that I’m your boy Mike I’m dropping our mic until our next upload

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