The team led by Joe Mazzulla will emerge as the winningest team in NBA history if it becomes the champion.
The Boston Celtics will face the Dallas Mavericks of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving on 2024 NBA Finals starting this Thursday, June 6. If they become champions, They will win their 18th title in the best basketball league in the world, thus breaking their tie with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Unlike the Dallas Mavericks, The Boston Celtics have a path to the finals without facing any direct title contenders. In the first round, against the Miami Heat without Jimmy Butler, the main figure of the Florida team, Jayson Tatum and his team, won the series 4 to 1. And in the second, luck continued to be a factor for those in green, who They repeated the overall result of the previous stage and beat the Cleveland Cavaliers without their star Donovan Mitchell in the last three games.
In the Conference Finals the opponent was unexpected: Indiana Pacers. Including outstanding offensive teams like the Milwaukee Bucks (Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard) and the Philadelphia 7ers (Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey), as well as great defensive teams like Jalen Brunson’s New York Knicks. As in the First Round and the Eastern Semifinals, the main figure of the opposing team was absent and Boston took advantage of it. This is how without Tyrese Haliburton in games 3 and 4, Joe Mazulla’s men swept Rick Carlisle’s team and advanced to their second final in 3 years.
The last time the people of Massachusetts attended the most important basketball event in the world was in 2022, when they fell 4 to 2 against the Golden State Warriors of Stephen Curry who took his long-awaited Finals MVP. Beyond that defeat, the project Brad Stevenswho was the team’s former coach and is now the General Manager, at least reached the Conference Finals in the last three seasons.
The Boston Celtics are a team of tradition in the NBA. As one of the few that never changed its stadium or name, They have a maximum number of titles (17, shared with the Lakers), and also the largest number of players making up the Hall of Fame (37 against the Angelenos’ 32). In any case, they haven’t won an NBA championship since 2008, and in the last 40 years they’ve done it just three times.
Between 1957 and 1969 they won 12 titles out of a possible 14, and ten of them in a row. From the hand of Bill Russellthe greatest ring winner in history with 11 conquests, the Celtics covered the 60s in the NBA from end to end.
Source: Tycsports
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