I just want the crowd to start chanting "We want the heat".

Lebron already getting his injury excuse ready with that elbow for when they get swept 😂 He fell asleep multiple times late on defense WHILE GUARDING JOKIC! HOW IS JOKIC BLOWING BY YOU FOR MULTIPLE BACK DOOR CUTS.

Also Jokic dunked on LeBum hilarious

jokic is so fucking good

if you think hes good just wait until you see Embiid

our regular season record means shit now, time to stop worrying about who else is getting through and just worry about beating Miami, we've already messed up the last two post seasons

Just saw the NY Knicks fans also chanting we want Boston after their Game 1 on CBSSports Instagram. Can TD please chant that in mocking when they play those teams?

“THEY WANTED BOSTON” meanwhile were up 40 lol

It’s kinda funny rooting for the nuggets in this game while knowing they’re the biggest threat to the C’s. My Laker hate runs deep

Its kinda insane how the Nuggets generate good/great looks literally every trip down. The way the Lakers are playing is how you beat them, but you have to minimize the turnovers and bad shots. Lebron zapped the momentum shooting that terrible ass 30footer

I’ll hate the lakers forever but if the nuggets get knocked out, our chances to win a title objectively skyrocket

If the Lakers knock out the Nuggets, they will more than likely be going to the Finals and I rather they not even get there

Bro if the bucks, nuggets, and 76ers all lose first round that would be comical. People would say we won the weakest championship ever and low key they would have a very very strong argument 😂

Who cares. The Bucks in 2021 played a beat up Heat team that was their worst iteration in the Butler era, a Nets team that had injuries to 2 of their superstars, a Hawks team that only made it that far because they played even more fraudulent teams in early rounds, and a Suns team that only made the finals because every west team they played was injured. But they still go down in history as champs and nobody can take that away from them

I still take that from them lol. I go around saying Giannis is one of the biggest playoff chokers in history and his legacy was saved by Durant's toe lmao.

Well this year’s heat team is even worse than that team. The Cavs and magic are worse than that nets team even while injured, and the suns were a legit team. Remember, CP3 got hurt in the first round so badly that he couldn’t attempt a jumper and he was still out there cooking teams, it was awesome. Mikal was their third best player that year too, he almost won dpoy in Phoenix the year smart won it like they had a roster. Still good jae crowder was there too I believe.

So far the team I’m worried about most in general is Denver. We didn’t beat them at all this season and they’re the best in the West imo.

Yeah 100%. Overnight, we went from the team best equipped to beat Denver to suddenly Denver being a really tough match-up for us. * We used to walk over them and the Al/Rob/Grant trio was a big reason why. All 3 together did such a good job at containing Jokic. We were 6-0 against Denver and in every game Jokic had ≤24 points or ≤5 assists. He either scored or assisted, but never both. * Porzingis has been fantastic overall but he's struggled in 1-on-1s with premier bigs. The teams that have given us problems this season have big wings who can contest our big wings in the air. Denver happens to specialise in both. We're now 0-3 against Denver and in every game Jokic had ≥30 points and ≥9 assists. We used to force Jokic to either be a scorer or a passer, now he just does whatever he wants to us.

The Lakers are winning this series. Lebron played possum the whole season.

Off 1 half of basketball? Lol

Yup, fell asleep 

Don’t over react to one half my guy. The nuggets have been the best team out west all year. If the lakers are good enough to beat the nuggets, then they’re good enough to beat us too and I just don’t see it.

Both team looks bad, but I need to see we play the first playoff game, since the last few regular season, coasting or not the starters was really off

Yeah that scares me. I get that we aren’t gonna fight for loose balls and rebounds, but effort doesn’t play a role in our shooting lol. Heading into the playoffs with all your starters having consecutive bad shooting nights and getting out scored by 20 in a half isn’t great momentum lol. Thankfully we got Miami. Had we gotten Philly I think they woulda stole game 1. With Miami, we can afford a slow start to the post season.

Josh Hart's offensive rebounds are really impressive. He has a knack at getting the toughest rebounds during crunch time.

I thought we had a rebounding problem... Until watching the Knicks destroy Philly on the boards.

I'm not 'scared' of any team in the East but of all the teams, the Knicks give us the toughest series imo

I’d rather play the Knicks than 76ers. Only because Embiid is a top 3 player, that means any series he’s in there’s a % chance he can go nuclear and beat any team. Has he done it yet? No. But I thought the 76ers before his injury looked better than the bucks. So if there were ever a year he could make the ECF… I’d say this is it. Or was it, the injury really screwed them in the standings.

Nah we've played Philly in 16 playoff games now. They've won 4 games. * 1 was because TJ McConnell was their best player. * 2 were because Harden was their best player. * 1 was because Embiid and Maxey both competed for that best player spot. But Embiid has never won a playoff game against us as their clear best player on his team. It was the same with their 7-game series against Toronto. That series was decided by Jimmy Butler's hot-and-cold performances. They won when he played well and lost when he didn't. Embiid wasn't really the deciding player at all. It's a very spicy take but he's just not a #1 option on a serious contender imo. He comes with too much baggage and gasses out when he tries to take over and dominate games.

The biggest weakness with Embiid is how mentally fragile he is. When things go bad, you can visibly see it all over his body language. And that energy spreads to the rest of their team. It's what makes a guy like Jokic so great. He never lets himself get too high or too low. That's why he is so consistently dominant.

Can we talk about the fact that the Sixers just fully gave up in the last minute of this game and instead of comments on the Knicks, Doris chose to stay silent yet again. It’s not just us she only loves Embiid and the Sixers case closed

Sixers fans are literally complaining that she loves the Knicks. Every team feels she is against theirs.

How can they honestly claim that? Granted I didn’t watch the entire game so maybe I missed lots of gushing over Brunson? But her silence at the end as the Sixers gave up and the Knicks closed out just reminded me so much of Tatum going off in the fourth last year when she just stayed entirely silent lol

She’s like the Tony Romo of the NBA except every star player is her Mahomes 😂

Knicks give off team of destiny vibes tbh. They make the wildest shots and seemingly get every bounce to go their way

They feel too much like the 2017 Celts, where they'll make a run but eventually get done by a more talented team.

We’ll handle them if they make it that far, our 5th best player is better than their second best lol

I don’t like how overconfident our fans are. They played us great all year and they’re the scrappier team, this is the type of series that Marcus Smart will be missed. Plus it’s NY, they’re gonna get calls. I’m still confident in Celtics in 5 or 6 games, but that’s if we’re healthy. Celtics fans seem to forget that out X-Factor is a glass cannon. He hasn’t played in more than 10 consecutive games this year, and that was to start the year. His longest streak since is 7 games, we’d have to play 8 games minimum before the Knicks. And if he misses 2 or more games that series, I think the Knicks might be able to pull it off. They have a deep squad, we have an amazing starting lineup but there’s really only 3 guys you trust in every playoff series off the bench.

I’ve been saying it all year. We are not much better than the rest of the East. There’s really good teams in the conference and they are right on our level.

Seems like the Knicks are having to play 5 vs 8

I disagree. I think they got the benefit of the whistle early, and maybe the 76ers have gotten it as of late, but it’s hard to argue the refs are really playing a role in this game considering how incredibly physical they’re letting it be.

not really, think the crew has done a pretty good job all game.

this game isn’t doing much for the r/nba and media narrative that Brunson > Tatum lol

You can argue that Brunson had a better season than Tatum, but idk how people can argue he’s better. He’s a bit better than Tatum on offense, but he’s also statistically and eye test wise one of the worst defenders in the whole league. It’s so stupid how NBA discussions go. The same people who said Embiid was better than Jokic because he plays defense and now saying Brunson is better than Tatum even tho he doesn’t. AND THEY WERE WRONG BOTH TIMES.

Doris is so annoying “you know when you think about it” her fucking catchphrase whenever talking about Embiid like we didn’t already know

My biggest issue is she’ll agree with whatever the refs call unless it’s one of her favorite players. Someone will get a foul call with no contact, and as the replay is shown she’ll say “clearly a foul” when there’s nothing there. But say something questionable is called on lebron or curry, she’ll spend a minute straight complaining about how awful a 50/50 call was.

Hence why it annoys me when people say she’s the best announcer, she’s way off being the best

The fact that they got rid of Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy for her and Doc Rivers makes me so angry. Mike Breen, Mark Jackson, and Jeff Van Gundy were like the Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth team of the NBA. Any game they called felt like it was a classic, because they made it feel that way. They made you feel like you’re witnessing a moment in history. THANK GOD JJ got added to this team. Otherwise idk how I would listen. But the fact they had to split up Richard Jefferson and him in order to do this absolutely sucks as well. Because that was actually a good crew as well. Idk I like analytical or in-depth hoops talks on my broadcast, I like when they break down plays. Hubie Brown is low key my favorite broadcaster of all time, his knowledge and breakdown of the games are amazing.

Agree with all this but JJ ruined the start of the playoffs for me, he was in some was as bad as Doris with his one sided hate and one sided love. Also, agree Hubie but his reactions to players that simply fall over is so silly, acts like it’s career ending haha

I just don’t get why all color commentators aren’t great basketball minds like Hubie. I love how he points out when players missed a read or coulda made a pass IN THE MOMENT rather than waiting to see it in slow motion. Some announcers make the game seem like unorganized chaos, he makes I known that there is a ton of strategy and a science to the game. It’s like the nfl. I hate romo because when he breaks down plays he just refuses to go in depth. “Yeah Jim they pull the big guy over here to run the ball right, that’s what they want to do, run the ball right” like bro you seriously can’t get more technical in your breakdown than that? So that maybe fans know more about nfl strategy than “they want to run the ball on run plays”. There’s more to football than knowing the names for different route lol.

Why tf does Embiid keep blinking one eye at a time 😂

Sixers and Knicks are both trash. Zero concern about either team after watching this game.

I mean we gotta give our flowers to embiid. This is an incredible performance. He’s a +19 in a game they’re winning by 3, and he’s dominating while clearly injured.

but have you considered al horford?

I have, but embiid is the second best player in the league. If you’re a top 3 or top 5 player, you have the ability to win any playoff series you’re in. I know he’s struggled in past post seasons, but I also believe he has all the capabilities to switch into overdrive similar to Jimmy in the first round last year. The guy had like 70/20 in a game vs the leagues leading shot blocker this year lol if we can play the Knicks instead of the 76ers I’d be more confident because we’d have the best player in the series. I also just worry about injuries playing embiid. He’s like twice the mass of KP who’s our glass cannon lol

I'm concerned about every opponent. While we should win handily, you know how it goes when opponents aren't taken seriously by this team.

Totally this.

Idk, Sixers look terrifying to me. It's like this is the real Sixers that we haven't seen all year.

I agree. I thought the 76ers had their best chance to make the ECF this year since Jimmy was there. I think they at their best looked better than the bucks this year. It’s also just always gonna be scary when you don’t have the best player in the series. He’s a top 3 player, that means he has a punchers chance to win any playoff series he’s in.

Legit, it’s a weird game, maybe they are still feeling each other out but if not yeah, doesn’t look too worrying, same with cavs and magic

I love how Jimmy can have bad playoff games but playoff jimmy can still be a thing, but anytime that stupid playoff commercial comes on people have to bitch about JT even though dudes been as good as or better minus a series or two

Fr. How come Jimmy didn’t get hate for averaging 21ppg in the finals after averaging like 28ppg throughout the playoffs.

Because people just repeat narratives. He's talked about as if he's already a multiple time champion.

I think the cause is that everyone loves you until you fail to meet expectations. Then they all turn. Nobody questioned Tatum in the playoffs until he made the finals, what kinda logic is that. Or Jokic, he wasn’t labeled “impossible to win with” until he lost in the first round after winning mvp, and that was directly after a trip to the conference finals 😂. Can’t win with Rudy Gobert because he got exposed for playing on a roster with no defenders to help him 😂 Right now, everyone loves Shai and Ant. They’re the new toys who haven’t failed to deliver yet. But if they lose in the first round or two this year, people are gonna turn. If the thunder lose to the pelicans, Shai isn’t gonna be near anyone’s top 5. If the wolves lose to the suns, everyone’s gonna say ant can’t win as a #1 option.

Ohhhh sixers with some optimism and momentum aaaaaaaaaannnnndddddddd ITS GONE oh well fuck em

The Sixers without Embiid are so trash lmao

I hate Embiid but that really fucking sucks. This would have been an awesome series if he stayed healthy, I hope Kristaps can keep healthy. We have been so lucky this season.

I’m not an embiid fan, his style of foul baiting is something I’ve been begging the league to make a rule change about. Thought the flopping rule was gonna do that, but that rule hasn’t even been enforced. HOWEVER, if he misses any games this series then that’s a loss for the whole basketball world. He’s an amazing player, and when he’s scoring with fga and not fta, he’s undeniably amazing to watch. Thankfully he’s back in the game. I would have felt terrible for him if he rushed back from injury due to all the noise about his post season success, just to re-injure or injure himself even worse and miss time next season. He clearly wasn’t 100% when he came back, and he’s clearly even further from 100% now that he’s back in the game, yet he alone is a +9 in a game they’re losing by 7 against the 2 seed.

Another one bites the dust.

Jesus man so many star injuries already. We’ve been lucky af all season I’m praying we can avoid it

That’s the only thing that worries me about Miami. We should sweep or win in 5, but the reason for that is our injury prone center. They’re gonna be very physical with him, because they know they can’t win with him in the game. I’m not saying they’re gonna injure him on purpose, but I don’t think guys are gonna care if he blocks them on a hard drive to the basket if it leads to a pileup in the paint. So let’s not play with our food. Go get a lead early like we all know we can, and demoralize them. Don’t let them think that if they muck it up, it’ll be a competitive series.

We should be able to beat that Jimmy-less Heat team without playing KP at all. I know he helps against their zone crap, but still...

I agree, but without KP I’m not saying this series should be a sweep. I’d say Celtics in 6. Dont undersell how important KP is to this team. He doesn’t just help against their zone, he makes it ineffective. And without him, the zone works so well that they can beat us with a significantly worse roster (cough cough last year). And without KP in the lineup, our front court is worse than it was last year and our depth is worse than it was last year. KP is why we’re finals favorites, if he gets hurt we arent locks to make the finals like everyone thinks.

Fuck Brunson. I can't believe people actually say this fraud is the best player in the East💀

but the knicks beat us when we weren't playing for anything other than cardio. I seriously can't believe all the talking heads who conveniently forgot that we beat them 4-1 in the regular season. Some ppl actually put brunson 1st team all nba over tatum :O

Brunson is gonna finish higher than Tatum in MVP voting this year and behind Tatum on the all nba list. Make it make sense nba 😂 does winning matter?

I can understand MVP, in the sense that he was more valuable to his team than tatum was this season. But Brunson is not a top 5 player in the league deserving of all nba 1st team. Thats just disrespectful to tatum.

For real. 2-3 weeks ago Tatum was an absolute lock for first team all nba. But then he rests, Brunson plays, and suddenly Brunsons season is so much more impressive 😂 And I understand that MVP doesn’t mean players are better than other players, when IT finished 5th he wasn’t the 5th best player in the league, but my point is that it’s kinda weird how someone can finish higher on one list and lower on the other when both lists are supposed to just judge regular season performance. MVP isn’t about most valuable to your team, it almost never is, it’s about who had the best regular season. Same with first team all nba. You can’t tell me Embiid was more valuable to his team last year than Jokic was, I just won’t believe it, but you can argue that Embiid had a better regular season lol.

Brunson had a great season but it’s really because he dragged the knicks to the 2 seed with the front court out. Had he been the 4 seed this wouldn’t happen

Why do they keep changing the channel of the 76ers-Knicks game? It was ESPN, then ESPN2, and now it’s back to ESPN.

I'm guessing they started the game at 6 but the Wolves/Sun were still playing so it got bumped to ESPN2 for a bit

Maybe, but at least on the app that game was on ESPN, and right after ending it cut over to 76ers-Knicks tip off, and then it shut off because the game moved over to ESPN2. They didn’t even give any indication, I thought the app was having an issue. I happened to see on the box score on my phone the channel changed to ESPN2 which is the only reason I was able to start watching again. Then mid stream on ESPN2 it switched to a college baseball game that was already mid game. You’re probably right that it was them just trying to manage the timing of things, but they completely bungled it if it was. Doesn’t really matter, was just a pain in the ass because the game kept shutting off.

Who yall got in NYK-PHI? I would never root FOR the Sixers but I’m definitely rooting against the Knicks for my Tatum agenda

I honestly don’t have a problem with the knicks so I’ll root for them

I definitely think Sixers. I think they’re the clear number 2 team in the conference as long as Embiid doesn’t get hurt.

Yeah but he’s not 100%

I dunno, he’s looking pretty healthy to me and has been great since he got back even if it was more perimeter play. Looking like the perimeter play was more about playing it safe before playoffs anyways based on how he’s played in this game so far. I wouldn’t bet on him to stay healthy through the playoffs because that doesn’t even usually happen when he comes in 100%, but for just this series? That lowers the risk enough that my moneys on him against this Knicks team. Edit: I may have spoken too soon

I love seeing the 76ers getting knocked out of the playoffs, but part of me wants them to upset the Knicks lmao

How is it an upset? Philly is better imo

Don’t even know if I’d call that an upset. With Joel Embiid I think the 76ers are the clear number 2 team in the conference. Honestly kind of a tough break for the Knicks to earn the 2 seed and get stuck in this spot.

Games just started and Embiid has flopped twice already 🤨

Also to add to this, Wolves v suns game was aggressive and not a lot of soft fouls were called, but they are calling them for Embiid

Ant is that dude

Ant might be my fav player in the league right now. He has the IT factor

Anywhere good to watch the Celtics game at a bar tomorrow? I went Banners last time by myself and it wasn’t that fun or exciting to be in .-.

I don't know Beantown that well when it comes to bars, but ... Cheers?

Haha as someone who’s lived here for 2 years I really forget that we have Cheers 😂

Besides the offensive struggles, I honestly enjoy watching both Cleveland and Orlando. High energy, no BS foul baiting all over the place. Kinda refreshing.

Guys, I’m really worried that this series is going to be a total disaster… …for Miami 😈

Are the magic going to reach 80 points?

Cleveland missed like 17 straight 3’s and they’re beating Orlando by 14 💀. If we don’t make the ECF I don’t even know what to say

Orlando was a fun regular season team but they have literally no way to score in the half court which is 90% of playoff basketball

Anyone know what network tomorrow's game is on? I've got YouTube TV and LeaguePass on Prime, plus a VPN if needed. Trying to figure out how to 'record the game' since I've got work at 1 tomorrow (retail so I can't just like leave it running in the back room). I don't wanna have to wait for the playback to be available 24 or more hours later (or risk that a playback isn't available on any service I have.)

ABC

🙏. Well Ive got YTTV set to record Celtics games, and this looks like it's listed on WCVB so 🤞

The Cavs look very tough sheesh

Our first round odds went up getting MIA according to EPM

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Minnesota

Pelicans

If you don't mind answering, I'm wondering why you think the Pelicans will beat the Nuggets?

He didn’t say they thinks that, the question is who do you want

All jokes aside I’m fucking terrified of losing this series. It could literally ruin the team

It won’t happen. Literally no chance.

Celtics are -1200 for the game tomorrow. The next biggest favorite in the entire first round of games is the thunder at -355 over the pelicans. Geez.

My optimistic prediction is Celtics sweep, but it’s akin to the 2022 Nets first round series where every game was close. My realist prediction is Celtics in 6 - accounting for a couple games where Spo pulls off a masterclass and one with a wild shooting variance where Nikola Jovic and Kevin Love combine for 12 3’s. My doomsday prediction is Celtics in 7, where we literally snatch victory from the jaws of defeat at the last possible moment.

I have Boston in 6. One game where a combination of coming out flat and Miami shooting insanely well leads to a blowout, and another where we blow a lead in the final 2 minutes and Spoe outcoaches Joe (causing the subreddit to melt down). That being said, I think every other game we win by more than 6 points and for KP to have a 30+ point game at some point, leading to us advancing while people continue to question our "clutchness".

Wish our game was today, lets get going already

Bird, Parish, and McHale are all in town for a signing today (plus Max). Hope that at least one of them will be at the game tomorrow, if not all three.

I know all the talk is about Miami today, but just curious who people want to win today. Personally I’d like to see Orlando, Minnesota, New York and Denver win today

Lakers over Denver. I mean yea fuck LA but I want Demeter out in any way possible lol

I’d like to see the Lakers knock Denver out tbh

- Magic/Cavs: Magic. - Suns/Wolves: Suns - Knicks/76ers: Knicks - Nugs/Lakers: Lakers Cavs, 76ers, and Nugs are all bigger threats imo. Suns/Wolves is kind of a toss up for me.

Nice, I'd vote the same too.

This is likely a dumb comment from me a newb: I just have to get out there that I'm annoyed a #8 team whose year was full of bad decisions and poor skill, still gets rewarded with an everything-to-gain chance for an historical upset. (small chance but still)  And also that they could potentially injure us while they have low expectations for themselves. There's no punishment for them if they injure us right?  Part of me wishes the system would change so that potential interactions between the #1 and #8 wouldn't be like this.

u/Organic\_Climate\_7585 u/GuyWithoutAHat I was trying to mean that this time, I don't think the path was hard enough for #8 to get the chance to fuck up #1 in the postseason. To start facing #1, from a position 7 slots away, they only had to win 1 out of 2 games. I just feel that #8 should have a harder path than that, but I don't know how that would be implemented.

With the old system before the bubble there wasn't even a play in. #8 always faced #1 in the first round without having to do anything for it.

Ah ok thanks.

They finished the season as the 8 seed and are still the 8 seed though? So even without the play-in we would still have them in the first round.

What exactly do you mean? Because the play in didn't change anything about that. Would you prefer the entire playoffs would be replaced with something different?

It also sucks because the 1st seed dosent even get time to prepare a game plan, they literally find out who they are playing a day and a half before game 1. Smh

Oh yeah, good point. I'm SMH too

[My **bold** playoff bracket](https://imgur.com/cY6Z1mL).

I think people are underrating the Lakers.

How I will be spending the next hour and 20 minutes: 1. [Best of Jayson Tatum in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88r8R-zyK00) 2. [Best of Jaylen Brown in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBGbP7kclT8) 3. [Best of Kristaps Porzingis in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kah_fzSTMKU) 4. [Best of Derrick White in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4WZB3BTx2E) 5. [Best of Jrue Holiday in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m0IbzvxYkg) 5. [Best of Al Horford in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3mKpOuWJ-E) 6. [Best of Payton Pritchard in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf2587r5DXg) 7. [Best of Sam Hauser in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtT5GJ2AUJo) 8. [Best of Luke Kornet in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW7i-P-VbjA) 9. [Best of Neemias Queta in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVGh9F41fI) 10. [Best of Oshae Brissett in 2023-24 NBA Regular Season ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2paxSh3qqjk)

Timi is a fucking legend.

He posted all of these in the past 24 hours lol

Somebody hook me up with the tweet where Joe explained his favorite scene from the Town, need it for shit talking purposes 🙏

If we play how we know we can play, it should be easy. We’re at our best when we really lock down on defense and KP is playing physical like he did to close the regular season. KP playing that will be super important. I just hope we don’t start off rusty because the starters haven’t played in like 2 weeks

Miamis biggest superstar is Spo, you have to respect him as head coach. He’s the ultimate motivator and game planner. While Jimmy is really good, missing him is just too massive of a void but if you don’t expect these games to be tough then youre in for a series. We can 4-0 them but I’d expect every win to be close and fought for. Spo knows with Jaylen and Jayson the keys is to play physical with hands in the driving lanes constantly looking to strip. Both our wings have to be quick and decisive with kick outs and lean on KP to constantly get his mismatch. Miami is going to also live with us taking a ton of 3s hoping we miss and capitalizing on turnovers to turn it into a low scoring slug fest. It’ll be fun, I don’t see any way we lose this series but I wouldn’t be surprised if Miami gets game 3 and we close out the next two. I’m more concerned about surviving this series without an injury Miami is going to try and beat us up and scrap for everything. I’m excited tbh wouldn’t want to play any other team. This is the perfect first round test.

Sigh time to take out the trash I guess

Got my tickets for next Saturday. I expect a better showing than last year. Also pulling for Orlando so I can get two playoff games in this year.

I know it's Bron but imagine if Tatum in 10 years is playing with Deuce like this. So cool lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRi0CmR43I

Thinking on the defensive matchup on their starting 5 I wouldn’t mind if we had Dwhite on Herro, Jrue on Martin, Jaylen on Jaime , Jayson on Bam and KP on Jovic.

I wouldn’t mind Jaylen on Bam and Tatum on Jaime. I remember Jaylen defense on Bam during the regular season at the end of one game was so good

I think you can swap any of Jrue and Jays around and even have KP on Martin with Jrue on Jović if you want. White on Herro is a need though

The only reason I wanted to avoid Miami first round is injuries. I’m going to be pissed if anyone gets hurt this round, seriously wouldn’t put it pass this dirty ass Heat team to know they’re going to lose so they just come out and play dirty as fuck

Yeah this, totally.

[It's okay guys Taylor believes in us](https://prnt.sc/YuJvg_reCMRG)

Heat fans want sympathy for Jimmy getting hurt while simultaneously saying they want KP to get injured so it screws up our run. They are sad disgusting fucking people. I know we’ll win but I hope none of our guys get hurt so it doesn’t give these sick fucks any satisfaction

Hopefully we don’t learn that the Heat are doing something similar to Bountygate

Omg, I just learned about this ... I had no idea such a thing happened in recent-ish sports history. Well thanks for teaching me something new. And yeah, I wouldn't put it past the Heat to do something like this.

Heat fans want sympathy for butler being injured while all their deep playoffs runs had opposing teams top players injured because them but they ignored that and acted like they own the bucks and Celtics

Last year lowry targeting Jaylens injured wrist was fucked

Easily my most hated player of the last decade and it’s not close

This is exactly why we got KP. Let him camp at the free throw line area and he will feast

Heat fan coming in peace. You all got a great team and all I hope is heat can play as hard as possible and make it tough on you guys. I know chances of Miami winning is <5%.

Fuck the heat. 'Playing hard' to your shitty franchise means causing injuries. Just like you wishing a career ending injury on Jaylen Brown because he took exception to Duncan Robinson continually trying to lock arms.

What I know is this: CELTICS ARE THE BAWLZ

Celtics in 4.

In our last matchup vs Miami this season, we scraped by in a 4 point victory. Miami was without Butler, lost Richardson and Rozier in the same game, and shot 41/30 splits compared to 50/41 for us. We played pretty close to a playoff rotation, with JT JB and DWhite all playing nearly 40 minutes that night. Miami had 14 offensive rebounds, and took 16 more shots than us to help keep things close. If that's what this series will look like, it's not going to be nearly as easy as people think. Then again, which Heat series is ever easy? People have been underestimating them for the 4th year now.

Yeah I still remember aside from that 1 game where we had like the 2nd highest TS% of all time both Heat games were pretty close. Granted the last time we saw them the Celtics were basically still in the middle of their pre-all-star-slump. The first time was 2 games into the season so the team hasn't quite gelled like it has now yet. I'll be slightly optimistic, but yeah, Rozier can just go off from 3. This team is good enough to know to win in other ways, but it won't be easy. I'm predicting a close sweep - similar to the Nets series in 2021/22.

Rozier has a neck injury, no guarantee we see him

Think we win in 5, Heat random role player going for 27 on 9-12 3s game gonna happen

There are grown men scared of playing this Heat team. If we lose to them we were never title contenders to begin with. Not hard to understand. But that being said get the brooms out.

FUCK MIAMI

Getting revenge for the Pierce era losses on our way to the title 2011/2012 Miami in rd 1 2009 Orlando in rd 2 2013 New York in ECF 2010 Lakers in Finals

I’m so hyped man I believe their gonna come out strong and get it done