The 2024 NBA Finals is just one day away from starting, with fans anticipating a great matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and the Boston Celtics. The Finals are a place that starts with many questions and storylines coming into it.
We share our predictions for the Celtics and Mavericks in the NBA Finals Time for our staff predictions! Who wins? How many games? Which X-factor swings the series?
The significance of Kristaps cannot be overstated. For their first seven seasons together, Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum played with a revolving door of point guards.
It’s not hard to see why the Boston Celtics are the heavy favorites to win the NBA Finals. Not only did they have the best regular-season record out of all the 30 teams in the league, but their postseason performance has been phenomenal.
A former teammate called out James for singing the praises of Kyrie Irving and thereby forcing the media to talk about him instead of the Celtics and Mavericks players who will compete for the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
You'd be hard-pressed to find even five teams who dominated as much (76-20) en route to the NBA Finals.
To start, Green predicted the Celtics would win Game 1 at home by overwhelming the Mavericks with their "size and length" on the perimeter.
The "never meet your heroes" expression doesn't apply to Joe Mazzulla, who seemingly benefits from every time he meets his.
Boston is four wins away from immortality. The Boston Celtics won 64 games this season. Combined with their 12-2 postseason record up to this point, they have gone 76-20.
I feel like we should all have some highlights of ourselves to pull up to raise our spirits. With an NBA championship in the balance, Sam Hauser is doing everything he can to stay confident and ready for when his Boston Celtics teammates find him open on the perimeter — and by “everything” I mean watching his own highlights.
The Boston Celtics will have to find a way to slow down Kyrie Irving of the Dallas Mavericks if they are to win Banner No. 18. Jrue Holiday is expected to draw the defensive assignment, and he had a candid response about it during their recent interviews with the media.
Holiday opened up on landing in Boston.
Kyrie Irving has never shied away from expressing his honest thoughts about his former team, the Boston Celtics. The Boston fanbase and Irving have shared a love-hate relationship over the years.
The tandem of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum has been dominant all season long for the Boston Celtics. For Isaiah Thomas, one of the franchise’s former stars, the Dallas Mavericks duo of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving is better, Jaylen Brown first made his way to Boston as the franchise’s third pick in the 2016 Draft.
Action Network staff shares NBA Finals best bets and Mavericks vs. Celtics Game 1 picks.
On Thursday evening, the NBA Finals will begin with Game 1 between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks in Massachusetts. Before the game, Stephen A.
Action Network's Braxton Reynolds gives his three-leg NBA same-game parlay picks for Mavericks vs. Celtics Game 1 on Thursday, June 6.
The NBA, perhaps more than any other sports league, has always been driven by its superstar players. However, its history wouldn't be complete without the superstar coaches.
Jayson Tatum sat on the Boston Celtics bench alone, distraught with a towel over his head as the Celtics were about to fall in Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Finals.
The Celtics have reached the Eastern Conference Finals six times in the last eight years. They've now broken through to the championship round twice in the last three years.
At long last, the wait is almost over. After an extended layoff, Game 1 of the NBA Finals is a day away. The Celtics' injury report is a clean sheet ahead of Thursday's series opener at TD Garden.
A few months back, Jrue Holiday was already willing to call Wisconsin his home and play for the Milwaukee Bucks for the rest of his career. He had to be traded and found his way to the Boston Celtics.
The Boston Celtics are as good as some of the best teams in NBA history. At least that's what their resume says. So why aren't bettors buying in?
While Kyrie Irving will be the most booed man in America come Thursday night, Celtics fans might be wise not to poke the Mavericks, who have repeatedly made jeering fanbases eat their negativity this postseason.
Celtics big man Kristaps Porzingis, who has been on the shelf for over a month due to a calf strain, is on track to return to action in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
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