Los Celtics They insist on fighting history because in this NBA season they are running out of rivals. With his incontestable triumph in the Madison Square Garden (102-116)a luminous victory for the media speaker of everything that happens in ManhattanBoston reached its eighth consecutive victorytheir best streak of the course, and put a league behind the second in the East, the Cavaliers: eight income triumphs.
To put into context the overwhelming dominance of the Celtics It’s time to pay attention to what’s happening on the other side of the United States. In the Wild West, the Wolves They take seven wins… over the eighth-placed Suns. The perfect storm that the Celtics are on the court (a choral, expert, talented and physical team with two superstars like Brown y Tatumand the fantastic additions of Porzingis y Holiday) is taking place in a period of uncertainty regarding its great enemies: the Sixers remain in crisis after the decline of Embiid and the Bucks They must catch the air Doc Rivers before taking off again.
Four out of four to Knicks
“We are the team that we are. It is true that things are happening, but we continue playing our game,” he said. Al Horford from the Madison locker room, where the Celtics walked again. It is the fourth victory in as many games over the Knicks, the fourth place in the Conference. That’s Boston’s level.
The Celtics reached the 45th victory with 25 games left regular season. If they do not suffer any serious mishap, it is not safe to say that they will end up with at least 60 winssomething they only did twice in the 21st century (2008, 66 victories, champions and 2009, 62, runners-up) and that guarantees them at least a presence in the Finals.
13 seasons of 60 or more wins
The Celtics, one of the founding members of the NBA, have completed 13 seasons with 60 wins or more. They did it since 82 regular season games were played and they only missed their appointment in the 90s and from 2011 onwards. In all those seasons, only five of them did not reach the Finals.
He franchise record corresponds to the 72-73 season, when the team in which they stood out Jo-Jo White, John Havlicek y Dawe Cowens achievement 68 wins in regular seasonbut curiously fell in the Eastern Finals (seventh game at home, 78-94) against the Knicks, who would later be champions. That defeat is one of the hardest in the admirable history of him andthe first in its history in a seventh meeting at home. Now she wants to renew old laurels. Bostona finalist in 2023, has not won the ring for 16 years.
2024-02-25 12:00:16
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