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The Celtics Had No Patience For ‘The Process’

We begin at the end … at least for the Philadelphia 76ers, who were bounced from the first round of the NBA playoffs by the Boston Celtics. The Sixers’ (somewhat incomplete) “process” of deliberately tanking for several years in order to build up a championship winning super-team obviously hasn’t yielded the results they hoped for. […]

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LeBron And AD Dominate Like Kobe And Shaq. But Can They Win Like The Classic Lakers?

LeBron James has spent his career burdened by comparison. He is the poster athlete of the Age of Scrutiny: applauded at 17 for maintaining Magic Johnson’s collaborative basketball legacy, denigrated at 34 for lacking Michael Jordan’s last-second cold-bloodedness, measured annually against contemporaries from Carmelo Anthony to Giannis Antetokounmpo. In just the past few seasons, he […]

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When Joel Embiid Posts Up, The Celtics Are Ready

In TV studios, on Twitter feeds and in living rooms across the greater Philadelphia area, people want to know: Why doesn’t Joel Embiid just destroy the Boston Celtics in the post? He’s unstoppable down there, after all, and Boston often appears to be at a significant size disadvantage. So, why don’t we just see him […]

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