Around the NBA - the sharp end of the playoffs - Randle snubbed for All NBA

[Reign23]

It was a GI Jane joke

[KnicksGadfly]

Fck golden state. Sick of seeing curry the billy goat hopping around every time he hits a 3. And fck Green that horse tooth jackass, probably the most ignorant personality in the NBA. Celts are doing it the hard way. Blue color type team. Didn't have to tank and reloaded on the fly. Go celts!

They didn’t need to tank cause the New Jersey Nets did it for them. That sounds like my preferred type of strategy too!

Knicks can get that done if they can scam the Lakers by giving them Randle for Russ and a 1st

[Chanel Bomber]

Fck golden state. Sick of seeing curry the billy goat hopping around every time he hits a 3. And fck Green that horse tooth jackass, probably the most ignorant personality in the NBA. Celts are doing it the hard way. Blue color type team. Didn't have to tank and reloaded on the fly. Go celts!

They didn’t need to tank cause the New Jersey Nets did it for them. That sounds like my preferred type of strategy too!

Knicks can get that done if they can scam the Lakers by giving them Randle for Russ and a 1st

Eying Sacramento as well.

[HighRyzer83]

Aight but I’m serious, I can’t be a Celtics fan after years of seeing that douche Paul Pierce

I know what you mean. But I don't understand these grudges. This this isn't your grand daddies Celtics. Totally different team, totally different players and staff. I mean if they changed their name, would that be acceptable? Because that's the only thing that stays through the years.

[Richard4444]

Aight but I’m serious, I can’t be a Celtics fan after years of seeing that douche Paul Pierce

I know what you mean. But I don't understand these grudges. This this isn't your grand daddies Celtics. Totally different team, totally different players and staff. I mean if they changed their name, would that be acceptable? Because that's the only thing that stays through the years.

This is such a rational way to think!!

Are you really a sports fan? Why did you still not change your team for a winning one?

[knicks94]

Aight but I’m serious, I can’t be a Celtics fan after years of seeing that douche Paul Pierce

I know what you mean. But I don't understand these grudges. This this isn't your grand daddies Celtics. Totally different team, totally different players and staff. I mean if they changed their name, would that be acceptable? Because that's the only thing that stays through the years.

Boston fans are completely obnoxious next to Philly and Chicago fans.

[HEZI]

Rooting for the Celtics is as pathetic as it gets

Buck Foston always and forever

[HighRyzer83]

Aight but I’m serious, I can’t be a Celtics fan after years of seeing that douche Paul Pierce

I know what you mean. But I don't understand these grudges. This this isn't your grand daddies Celtics. Totally different team, totally different players and staff. I mean if they changed their name, would that be acceptable? Because that's the only thing that stays through the years.

Boston fans are completely obnoxious next to Philly and Chicago fans.

Raps fans and heat fans were on another level when the heat had the big 3. I'm sure they think we suck too. That's all fans bruh. I can't honestly say there is any team fans I like

[HighRyzer83]

Who would have thought when we beat Boston in that double OT home opener, they would be champs. We really had potential this year.

[Richard4444]

Fck golden state. Sick of seeing curry the billy goat hopping around every time he hits a 3. And fck Green that horse tooth jackass, probably the most ignorant personality in the NBA. Celts are doing it the hard way. Blue color type team. Didn't have to tank and reloaded on the fly. Go celts!

They didn’t need to tank cause the New Jersey Nets did it for them. That sounds like my preferred type of strategy too!

Knicks can get that done if they can scam the Lakers by giving them Randle for Russ and a 1st

The Nets were their mother. They gave the Celtics 3FRPs plus the right to swap the #20 pick for the #1 pick for three 36years+ players (Pierce, KG, and Terry) to build a dream team along 32 years old Joe Johnson, 32 years old AK47, and 29 years old Deron Williams. Only Brook Lopes was in his prime. I wonder what got wrong. The picks turned in Tatum, Brown, and Sexton.

You can not build a strategy based on the assumption you will find an idiot. Usually, you will only waste time if you do it. Try to trade a Civic for a brand new Porsche.

[HarthorneWingo]

No game tonight? WTH? I’m sorry but 3 days between game is too many.

[Jimmit79]

[Chanel Bomber]

This hasn't felt like the NBA Finals.

Feels like we're in the 2nd round of the playoffs still.

Maybe because the Finals lack superstar power outside of Curry and Tatum.

And even then, Steph largely fell off the map the last 2-3 years (feels like they pulled the heimlich on his storyline out of necessity), and Tatum was largely ignored in the news and debate shows vs other guys from his generation (Luka, Ja, Booker etc.) before the playoffs started. This match-up just feels a bit anticlimactic.

Maybe this championship will be remembered as the start of a dynasty for Tatum and the Celtics. Maybe this championship will re-establish Curry as the NBA's marquee superstar. And perhaps these Finals will retroactively gain narrative power.

Until then, it feels a bit underwhelming compared to previous editions.

Or maybe I'm just upset the Celtics are up 1-0 vs Steph. Ugh.

[iLLmatic860]

This hasn't felt like the NBA Finals.

Feels like we're in the 2nd round of the playoffs still.

Maybe because the Finals lack superstar power outside of Curry and Tatum.

And even then, Steph largely fell off the map the last 2-3 years (feels like they pulled the heimlich on his storyline out of necessity), and Tatum was largely ignored in the news and debate shows vs other guys from his generation (Luka, Ja, Booker etc.) before the playoffs started. This match-up just feels a bit anticlimactic.

Maybe this championship will be remembered as the start of a dynasty for Tatum and the Celtics. Maybe this championship will re-establish Curry as the NBA's marquee superstar. And perhaps these Finals will retroactively gain narrative power.

Until then, it feels a bit underwhelming compared to previous editions.

Or maybe I'm just upset the Celtics are up 1-0 vs Steph. Ugh.

I think we were just spoiled by Lebron all these years

[robillionaire]

This hasn't felt like the NBA Finals.

Feels like we're in the 2nd round of the playoffs still.

Maybe because the Finals lack superstar power outside of Curry and Tatum.

And even then, Steph largely fell off the map the last 2-3 years (feels like they pulled the heimlich on his storyline out of necessity), and Tatum was largely ignored in the news and debate shows vs other guys from his generation (Luka, Ja, Booker etc.) before the playoffs started. This match-up just feels a bit anticlimactic.

Maybe this championship will be remembered as the start of a dynasty for Tatum and the Celtics. Maybe this championship will re-establish Curry as the NBA's marquee superstar. And perhaps these Finals will retroactively gain narrative power.

Until then, it feels a bit underwhelming compared to previous editions.

Or maybe I'm just upset the Celtics are up 1-0 vs Steph. Ugh.

It’s a trash finals, the Knicks beat both teams, not much else needs to be said

[StojkoVrankovic]

The reason why spike lee did this was to show how racist NYC is. It’s ridiculous that people think NYC is an angel and BOston is the devil when it comes to schit like this…..

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Look, I’m not about to defend NYC’s racist history. I’m no expert or cultural anthropology professor or anything, but I’m just letting you know the stone-cold reality of the fact that many white people all around the country root for the Celtics because their name and logo is a European clan and because the face of their franchise used to be the Great White Hope.

I like Tatum too. I especially like Coach Idoka. But that doesn’t make it any less obnoxious that old MAGA white men casually root for the Celtics in sports bars across the country or that a new generation of Barstool frat-boys come out of Boston.

I realize there are many kinds of Celtics fans and they’re not all racists. But go to a Knicks road game and you’ll see every color in the rainbow decked out in orange/blue. Pan the crowd in San Francisco on Sunday and tell me you see a single face in green that isn’t white.

I’ll cop to hating those f’ckers for more than half my life now and maybe I’m just old and things have changed. But try asking Magic Johnson or Bill Russell what they think about Boston Celtics fans. Try asking all the high-fiving white dudes at that random *California* sports bar I caught the game at last night why they root for the Celtics.

Imagine Staten Island without people of color. That’s Boston. Now imagine the New York Knicks were called the Staten Island Romans. Those are Celtics fans.

my lord you're a moron

[3toheadmelo]

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[Gant]

This hasn't felt like the NBA Finals.

Feels like we're in the 2nd round of the playoffs still.

Maybe because the Finals lack superstar power outside of Curry and Tatum.

And even then, Steph largely fell off the map the last 2-3 years (feels like they pulled the heimlich on his storyline out of necessity), and Tatum was largely ignored in the news and debate shows vs other guys from his generation (Luka, Ja, Booker etc.) before the playoffs started. This match-up just feels a bit anticlimactic.

Maybe this championship will be remembered as the start of a dynasty for Tatum and the Celtics. Maybe this championship will re-establish Curry as the NBA's marquee superstar. And perhaps these Finals will retroactively gain narrative power.

Until then, it feels a bit underwhelming compared to previous editions.

Or maybe I'm just upset the Celtics are up 1-0 vs Steph. Ugh.

In fairness, the reason there's no more superstars in the Finals is because these two teams just dispatched Jokic, Ja Morant, Doncic, Durant, and Giannis, plus Jimmy Butler. They eliminated half the NBA first and second teams themselves.

Take away Tatum and Curry, and there's only three players from the first two all-league teams that weren't beaten by the Warriors and Celtics in the playoffs.

[JRoy]

Not making an all-nba team is not a snub if the player did not deserve it.

Randle did not deserve it.

[KnicksGadfly]

Aight but I’m serious, I can’t be a Celtics fan after years of seeing that douche Paul Pierce

I know what you mean. But I don't understand these grudges. This this isn't your grand daddies Celtics. Totally different team, totally different players and staff. I mean if they changed their name, would that be acceptable? Because that's the only thing that stays through the years.

These ain’t my granddaddies’ Knicks either but I’m stuck with them. If they changed their location and renounced their history, fanbase and name, I’d consider it.

Either way, if it comes down to the Warriors and Celtics, there’s enough for me to conclude as a Knicks fan that rooting for the Celtics is not an option.