Guess they don’t call it “Titletown” for nothing. Many Boston Celtics fans gathered at TD Garden Friday night to witness their beloved squad get blown off the court in Dallas, as the Mavericks embarrassed them in a 122-84 romp that’ll send the NBA Finals back to Boston.
But given that zero teams in history have rallied from a 3-0 Finals deficit to win, the Mavs might’ve done C’s fans a favor by avoiding the sweep. Now, Monday’s Game 5 could be the conclusion of the series, where the Celtics can celebrate with their impassioned supporters. Just don’t tell that to the inebriated ingrates who, for whatever reason, got into such a heated argument following Boston’s first loss since May 9 that they decided to throw hands in the stands.
AYO LMAOOOOO 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/hAdPpSIFXm
— bronald schwarzenegger jr (@PrimeLBJ) June 15, 2024
Average Celtics watch party experience #fight #celtics #nba pic.twitter.com/8KvPWn9aZe
— jacob overlan (@jacob_overlan) June 15, 2024
Yup. You saw that right. One little loss and these people lose their f*****g minds. Y’all, this wasn’t a blown 3-0 lead. You didn’t lose Game 7. It was one loss. Your first in over a month! And you can’t handle it?
Perhaps no group of fans in the United States or all of sports are sorer winners than the folks of Boston, save maybe for Philly. Except I get more of Philly’s anger and vitriol, since they’re perpetually frustrated by lack of winning across most of their major sports. The Celtics are tied with the Lakers with 17 championships apiece, the most of all-time. Understanding that they haven’t raised a banner since 2008, they’re still well on their way.
Have some perspective, gentlemen! I couldn’t have summed up this fight much better than the following tweet:
A Celtics fan fight ending with one of them swinging on the closest black guy totally unprompted feels like a parody and would get called too on the nose if you tried to make it up but God bless them it really happened. https://t.co/znmXQH4ZVJ
— CCR Pounder (@ElHijoDelSimon) June 15, 2024
Yes, this incarnation of the Celtics are Charmin-soft paper tigers at bizarre, inopportune times. Their head coach Joe Mazzulla comes off as one of the biggest tools in the world on a regular basis. Even Boston knows in their heart of hearts as a city that they’ve had a relative cakewalk through the playoffs. None of that matters. They’re still, in all likelihood, going to win this year’s championship.
So yeah, I don’t know what else to say about this scuffle, except that the morons involved should chill out. Because the Celtics are 6.5-point favorites at home on Monday night. That’s probably where these lopsided NBA Finals end. For pure competition’s sake, I hope not. And the last time Kyrie Irving was down 3-1 in the NBA Finals, he and LeBron famously helped the Cavs rally to stun the Warriors.
The way Luka Doncic framed it prior to Game 4, I don’t know. Maybe I would be sweating it out and inflicting my misplaced rage upon a fellow fan if I were a Boston diehard…
“Just like we did before. In the regular season there was a time we lost 5 or 6 in row. From there we went 17-2 to get into the playoffs.”
Luka Doncic on overcoming a 3-0 deficit 🗣️
(via @NBA) pic.twitter.com/kqCNsiO6od
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) June 13, 2024
— MFFL (@Mavs_FFL) June 15, 2024
