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Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by J.A. Adande to discuss Boston’s seemingly no-win situation in their path to the NBA Finals and why it’s an NBA title or bust. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Boston is in like a bit of a trick bag because a Giannis has been hurt.
Dame is hurt like their playoff road has been like, you look at it and say, oh man, they’re 12 and two or whatever has been hurt.
We’re not talking about that.
Yeah, they got their, one of their four best players has been hurt and you’re looking at all the stars that have been missing.
You’re saying, man, they, they lived a charmed life in these playoffs.
Like maybe things are just setting up for them.
I think the Celtics are in the trick bag.
Jay because of all those injuries though.
We will judge them by a perfect standard like they can’t win by a wide enough margin if they do.
We’re gonna say, look at who you’re playing.
You’re playing against the Pacers without Tyrese Hallberg.
You’re playing Cleveland without Donovan Mitchell, you’re playing, you know, this team without this player like that sort of thing.
You’re playing Miami without Jimmy Butler like that grading on a sliding where the finals are the only thing that we’re gonna judge them by and say this is a pass fail.
It ain’t ABC d this is literally either you will win or we will excoriate you and you are back to being the frauds that everybody thinks you are as far as regular season record, as far as 2022 as far as what happened last year.
Like, I feel like if they don’t win this year and this is probably where they have some relation to the bad boy Pistons in a way that, you know, like the Lakers in the days in between the finals, Byron Scott hurt his hamstring and then, uh then in the third quarter of game two, Magic Johnson hurt his hamstring.
The series was effectively over, but basically going into that series, it was like, if you guys don’t win it now you’re never gonna win it.
I feel like that’s the case for…
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Publish date : 2024-05-28 19:15:56
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