Celtics Beat Mavericks 106-88 In Game 5 To Win 2024 NBA Finals

[RealGM Wiretap]

The Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks by a final score of BLANK to win the 2024 NBA Finals. The championship is the 18th in franchise history for the Celtics.

While Jrue Holiday set the tone early in the game for the Celtics, their entire top-6 played well with Jayson Tatum putting up 31 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds in his best performance of the series.

Derrick White had 14 points and eight rebounds, going 4-for-8 from three to stop a few runs from the Mavericks. 

Via RealGM Staff Report

[haste10176]

Jaylen Brown is finals MVP and the best player on the celtics sick of hearing its Tatum when Brown outperformed in two finals series and won the ecf player mvp as well.. Tatum takes way too many bad shots. Celtics as a whole were great they could 100% repeat next season and I see no reason for them not to be in the nba finals

[Rek]

Jaylen Brown is finals MVP and the best player on the celtics sick of hearing its Tatum when Brown outperformed in two finals series and won the ecf player mvp as well.. Tatum takes way too many bad shots. Celtics as a whole were great they could 100% repeat next season and I see no reason for them not to be in the nba finals

Barring injuries, they should come out of the East again next year.

[TheCage4]

Can we put the Luka MVP talks to rest for a while now please?

[stlboy]

Jaylen Brown is finals MVP and the best player on the celtics sick of hearing its Tatum when Brown outperformed in two finals series and won the ecf player mvp as well.. Tatum takes way too many bad shots. Celtics as a whole were great they could 100% repeat next season and I see no reason for them not to be in the nba finals

Brown is not the best player on the Celtics, stop with this ridiculous narrative.

[haste10176]

Jaylen Brown is finals MVP and the best player on the celtics sick of hearing its Tatum when Brown outperformed in two finals series and won the ecf player mvp as well.. Tatum takes way too many bad shots. Celtics as a whole were great they could 100% repeat next season and I see no reason for them not to be in the nba finals

Brown is not the best player on the Celtics, stop with this ridiculous narrative.

Yes he is two finals he has outplayed tatum he doesnt take the stupid shots tatum he also won the ecf mvp.. The best player won the award both times.. I will wait to see Tatum outplay Jaylen in the finals. Jaylen is the best player on the celtics till that happens..

[haste10176]

Can we put the Luka MVP talks to rest for a while now please?

Luka is 100% an MVP player he had a legit case to it this season.. making the finals with that team and he played pretty well not his best but he was not bad like some ppl want to say.

[puja21]

Jaylen Brown is finals MVP and the best player on the celtics sick of hearing its Tatum when Brown outperformed in two finals series and won the ecf player mvp as well.. Tatum takes way too many bad shots. Celtics as a whole were great they could 100% repeat next season and I see no reason for them not to be in the nba finals

Brown is not the best player on the Celtics, stop with this ridiculous narrative.

Yes he is two finals he has outplayed tatum he doesnt take the stupid shots tatum he also won the ecf mvp.. The best player won the award both times.. I will wait to see Tatum outplay Jaylen in the finals. Jaylen is the best player on the celtics till that happens..

Tatum struggled with his shot and obviously forced a lot, but it's a way more nuanced convo than that

Brown shot 8 of 34 3P% in the series (.235) while shooting a much higher 3 point rate (33% higher) than Tatum.

Brown also had a much lower FT rate than Tatum and shot 20% worse at the FT line, so their TS% was actually very comparable.

In the last 2 games brown shot 10-35 ... FIELD GOAL.
Shooting .285% in back-to-back close out games, while also being the recipient of more uncontested dunks off turnovers counts.

The whole series counts.

In counting stats, Tatum led Boston in points, rebounds, and assists:
Points / Rebounds / Assists / FTM / FT%
Tatum 111 / 39 / 36 / 25 / .926
Brown 104 / 27 / 25 / 22 / .733

And Tatum drew the toughest assignment, most doubles (hence most assists).

There's no bad choice here, but Brown did not "outplay" Tatum.

[Pickled Prunes]

Brown is not the best player on the Celtics, stop with this ridiculous narrative.

Yes he is two finals he has outplayed tatum he doesnt take the stupid shots tatum he also won the ecf mvp.. The best player won the award both times.. I will wait to see Tatum outplay Jaylen in the finals. Jaylen is the best player on the celtics till that happens..

Tatum struggled with his shot and obviously forced a lot, but it's a way more nuanced convo than that

Brown shot 8 of 34 3P% in the series (.235) while shooting a much higher 3 point rate (33% higher) than Tatum.

Brown also had a much lower FT rate than Tatum and shot 20% worse at the FT line, so their TS% was actually very comparable.

In the last 2 games brown shot 10-35 ... FIELD GOAL.
Shooting .285% in back-to-back close out games, while also being the recipient of more uncontested dunks off turnovers counts.

The whole series counts.

In counting stats, Tatum led Boston in points, rebounds, and assists:
Points / Rebounds / Assists / FTM / FT%
Tatum 111 / 39 / 36 / 25 / .926
Brown 104 / 27 / 25 / 22 / .733

And Tatum drew the toughest assignment, most doubles (hence most assists).

There's no bad choice here, but Brown did not "outplay" Tatum.

Tatum is better in almost every facet... but he's also at the top of opposing whiteboards. If either Brown or Tatum was out instead of KP, this might have been a 1st round exit. It's the pair together that makes them hard to load up on. They both take ill-advised shots and stop the ball at just the wrong time. Co-MVP would have bee nice!