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The Warriors’ Defense Is Impossible To Overlook

Even on nights when he notches a triple-single, Draymond Green has a knack for making himself the main character.  During and after the Golden State Warriors’ equalizer against the Boston Celtics in Sunday’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals, it was the non-basketball stuff that gained attention. There was the early lead-blocking of Grant Williams […]

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We Didn’t See This NBA Finals Matchup Coming

sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Eight grueling months after we started this NBA season, we’re finally down to our final two: the Boston Celtics and the Golden State Warriors, just like everyone predicted back in October. We have to acknowledge that FiveThirtyEight’s model absolutely did not see this coming: We gave the Celtics just a […]

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How The Celtics Turned Things Around

Not all that long ago, it seemed inconceivable that the Boston Celtics would be representing the Eastern Conference in the 2022 NBA Finals. The road leading them here was tumultuous, to say the least. It involved (multiple) disputes between star players, incessant calls to break up the central Jayson Tatum-Jaylen Brown duo and questions both […]

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