On the highlights, Celtics made a dunk and Mahomes was cheering so I thought he is a Celtics fan but just because Mahomes is born in Texas does not mean he is a Mavericks fan

He’s a Mavs fan.

Brian Windhorst destroying Luka right now

Meh, Luka will always be a 1 way player and why he will never be in the GOAT talk for anyone with a clue.

You're a ****ing weirdo.

Western conference was awesome. Both of Dallas’ series against okc and Minnesota were spectacular. Minn/den were awesome except way too blowout heavy.

It’s just the eastern conference because those teams aren’t good and injuries were insane. Way way too many superstars got hurt on that side of the house.

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A better Finals.

I didn't see you in here complaining about the entertainment value of the playoffs when LeBron was more involved. In fact, his presence was frequently the only reason you would post.

I'll give you the Thunder series but how you figure Dallas-Minnesota series was awesome? It was basically over before it started when Mavs got a 3-0 lead.

Boring playoffs happens sometimes in all of sports so hopefully just an anomaly. There were some good series for sure so I'm hopeful for the future. Spurs should be back in playoffs soon with Wemby so that should get playoff bball more exciting.

Yeah - it's hard to call picking on mediocre teams 'historic'.

What the Chiefs did was historic; getting through very probably the hardest gauntlet in NFL post-season history.

The Celtics are just treating above average basketball teams like they're above average.

I mean, has Boston played a top 10 team in these playoffs? If they have, it's close. Based on pure ability I'd say you're looking at a couple of teirs:

Boston
OKC, Denver, Minn, NYK
LAC, Phx, Philly (when healthy)
Indy, LAL, Mil, NOLA, Dallas, Cle, Miami

They've maybe knocked off a single top 10 team in this run? The rest are pretty average squads, most of whom weren't anywhere near their best due to injury.

The east was shitty and they got one of the worst teams out of the West in the finals. Minnesota and Denver playing each other prior to the WCF really helped clear the decks for them. OKC stepping on their dicks didn't help either.

Things really couldn't have been any easier for them.

I've actually enjoyed the playoffs this year. Refreshing to have new blood and less Lebron.

Glad to hear that man. To each their own.

No LeBron, KD, or Steph. I love it.

Actually, things could have been easier for them. They could have had Porzingis for the entire playoffs.

The competition wasn't great but they still have a chance to make history tomorrow night and complete sweeps in the final two rounds.

I mean, in the final 4 series in the west you had bonafide superstars and a sneak peek at the exciting faces of the future. Jokic, sga, Edwards, Luka. Even if Dallas handled Minnesota it felt evenly matched and many felt if Minnesota won game 5 Minnesota would actually be the favorite of the series.

Despite the outcome I still think Minnesota should’ve handled Dallas.

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Anybody getting excited about the draft?

No sweep in this one.

You can't have this bad of a title team doing anything historic. Thank God.

The Mavs are finally playing like they did in the WC playoffs.

I honestly thought this shit was happening tomorrow night. The NBA finals schedule ****s me up every time.

Glad to see these beantown beansucking bundle of sticksgots don't get the sweep though.

And now, for whatever reason, they're skipping Sunday night to play on Monday in game 5.

What a cool league that makes a lot of sense

Barkley says on NBA TV that he's retiring after next season from TV.

Best case scenario. For some dumb reason Luka played 33 minutes.

Travel day and then normal day between. Put in place if it was one of the long trips like LA or Bay Area to Boston etc.

Lame aa ****

"Roundball rock" jfc I liked it a lot better before you started calling it by that. Round...ball...rock damn it

Good. Its the finals. Fresher teams are more fun to watch than tired ones.

Mavs role players were finally stepping up. Hopefully they can extend this series as much as possible to at the very least get some experience under their belts.

I don’t think it will happen, but this series gets really interesting if the Mavs win Game 5.

The big difference to me was Luka at least trying to play defense. It helped in game 3 if not for all the fouls. Think he took the windhorst dig to heart. Still bad defense but he just needs to try a little bit to go a long way.

That will be the biggest loss to the NBA since Jordan retired from the Bulls.

Man, when Boston subbed the starters out and I looked up and saw 4 white guys on the court for them my first thought was BWillie must be losing his shit LMAO

Someone will pull off the 0-3 comeback one day.

It probably won't be this series though. As of now, I'm convinced the Celtics just wanted to win it on their home court. But yeah like you said if the Mavs win game 5 it gets interesting. Pretty lame that game 5 isn't until Monday.

And unfortunately that no-talent diversity hire Doris Burke will continue to annoy fans with her idiotic commentary. Good lord she is horrible.

Agreed. I don’t think Boston wants to go back to Dallas for a game 6. If they do, the pressure to win grows and I could see them losing the series.

This is the only time I've liked Wildes. LMAO

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Fat Slov goin down tonight. Guarantee you once game in hand he will like around like a bitch.

Celtics hacking and getting away with it at home as usual. Disgusting.

Why play Porzingis tonight instead of game 6 and 7? When he gets re-injured tonight, you're less likely to have him the remainder of the series.

Well… at least the Mavs won one game.

Porzingis is hurting them more than helping them while he's out there anyway. Dallas takes advantage of him defensively every single time.

Becoming obvious that Kyrie just can't play in this building.

That's another reason. He's not moving well. I would save him for later games, if necessary when all hands are on deck. Get him more rest.

Yeah he’s seeing ghosts out there.

I was surprised to see him out there for this one, that's for sure.

Some guys just don't respond well to this kind of booing/negativity and he appears to be one of them. True superstars handle it though.

If you contest Tatum on a drive it’s a foul. These refs suck dick!

Refs calling phantom travels now to prevent Dallas baskets.

Where's the intensity from Luka and Kyrie here? This is a Finals elimination game, right?

Is that Kyrie or Dak out there

When shots like that fall it’s clear that this is not Dallas’ night.

It wasn't Dallas's year. They were a 5-seed. It's unfortunate they got this far and ruined our chance of a competitive NBA Finals.

Luka can’t hit the free throw but that little pillowbiter Pritchard hits his second desperation heave of the series. JFC!

The only team that was gonna make this a competitive NBA Finals was the Denver Nuggets and you'd have absolutely hated that anyway with Jokic torching them.

Nonsense. T'Wolves and OKC would have been a fine draw.

I have to agree that Denver might have been the best chance at preventing Boston from getting championship 18.

What was SGA gonna do? Play 1 on 5 and lose like he did against the Mavs? You've seen how that worked out for Luka this series without any help.

And no team with Rudy or KAT is gonna win when it really counts.

T’Wolves? They were Anthony Edward’s and that’s about it. OKC is about a year away right now.

This series is just about done. Boston could probably just shoot 3’s the rest of the game and still win by double digits.

They won a ton of games. Just young. OKC and TWolves are the teams to beat next year. This was their feeling it out year. The West is ****ed moving forward. Luka better get some help.

This Boston team is probably one of my least favorite NBA Champs of my lifetime.

I didn’t like the Durant Warriors, but I could at least appreciate that team’s place in history.

This just feels like a really good team against a bunch of average playoff teams.

Jokic going somewhere next season?

Can only do so much with a big man.

Like win a NBA title yeah

Holy **** you're dumb.

Boston's really good but I think the disappointing thing is that we never got to see them test their mettle against an elite team that could have matched them on both ends (Dallas' defense is getting picked apart and has been all series). With their track record in big games, they might have folded in that scenario but we'll never know now.

They were fortunate to play against Miami without Butler the entire series, Cleveland without Mitchell for the back half, and the Pacers without Haliburton the last few games.

They probably still win those series, but not as easily and would be a more tired group.

Then again, they didn't have Porzingis for most of the playoffs.

Some 16 year old kid in Boston posted about how he’s seen 11 parades. I know it’s not his fault but that’s so punchable. There are going to be college kids in Boston who may have never seen a year that didn’t feature a deep playoff team.

And yet they’ll still find a way to play victim like they have some huge chip on their shoulder.

It’s so disappointing knowing they have yet another team that will be relevant for a while. **** this sports market.

Dallas needs to find another scorer in the offseason.

Happy for Hoford at least. He has been a solid player his entire career.

Mazzula challenging with 2 minutes left in a 20+ point game, yeah sounds about right

Worst Finals since KD ruined the NBA for a couple years in joining a 73 win team. Disgusting result.

Sucks to see it come to an end but even if Luka and Kyrie play better, you’re not going to beat a team that’s shooting the ball like Boston is. Still a huge accomplishment getting to the finals especially after completely missing the playoffs last year. They took a huge step this year.

I’ll say it again, nba needs to fix scheduling. Way way too many superstars playing gladiator by the end of the playoff run. Luka looked sluggish the entire night.

Carrying the entire offense for two months just about every possession will have that effect (unless you're prime LeBron). Needed more help to help lighten the load and it was nowhere to be found.

At least Tatum didn't get an undeserving MVP and it went to Brown.