The Boston Celtics, second seeded, make all kinds of history in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference. Nothing is good.
Two days later Make a 20 -point lead in a humiliating defeat at the New York Knicks, third seededThe Celtics, well, they Happened a 20 -point lead in a humiliating defeat against New York Knicks. It was an echo that challenged belief, until Jayson Tatum's latest training culminated with a flight from Mikal bridgesIn the same way that game 1 ended.
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So now, the Celtics are down 2-0 in a series in which they have held a combined advance of 40 points in two games. Let's just say that they are lucky that their title last year is still there to discourage experts from really working them.
To what extent did the Celtics drop this series? Enough that the Cleveland riders could feel sympathy for them.
To start, they are the first team of the era of the NBA game to lose two games after having led at least 20 points in a single qualifying series. Note how this statistic does not offer a “consecutive” qualifier.
No NBA team has exploded two eliminatory tracks like these Celtics, and they did it in consecutive matches.
Misery, of course, likes the company. For months, a final of the conference in eastern Celtics was treated as something that looks like a possibility. They were the two best east clear teams.
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And now, they are both down 2-0 against the lower teams, the best classified riders are currently following the Pacers of Indiana, the fourth seeded. The NBA has never had teams with their records like this in the second round, and they are there together.
It is not even as if the Celtics tended to blow the tracks this season. They lost a big total of a match during the regular season after having built a 20-point lead on the season of 61-21.
And the bridges, in particular, deserve special recognition. Not only did he sealed the two victories on the Celtics with interceptions, but he also scored 14 of the 30 points of the Knicks in the fourth quarter on Wednesday after having entered the frame with zero point.
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This represents a career summit in playoffs for a single district.
With a large perspective, however, the pain of the Celtics complies with a broader theme of this series of the playoffs.
The defeat of Boston was the fifth return victory of at least 20 points down in the NBA 2025 qualifiers, which is already a record despite the fact that we are not even halfway through the second round.
These losses are:
Incredibly, four of these five games present either the Pacers (in the right direction) or the Celtics (in the wrong direction).
There could also have been six of them too, had Aaron Gordon JUST was a little slower with a dunk from putback in match 3 against the Los Angeles clippers.
Despite the start of some overwhelming favorites to reach at least the conference semi-finals, this year's playoffs have already delivered a historic amount of returns and a game of pair 7. You can only ask yourself what is in store on the other.
