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Denver (7 win streak), Memphis (10 game win streak) and Celtics (7 game win streak) seem to rule the league now while the Pels and Nets have gone cold. Also the great hope in the WC was the Clippers at start of the season as being the team to challenge the Warriors in the WC finals. Well that ain't gonna happen as the Clipps and Warriors have both been a bust this year.I also feel the Mavs are in it as well as Luka is having a break out year but cannot carry the team himself

As an aside the other news in the league is some old guy on the Lakers team is going to break Kareem's all time scoring record sometime soon. I just can't remember who the player is nor do I really care
 
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I still feel the WC will have Memphis and Denver in the finals an in the EC its Boston vs ?? Sixers have been looking good even without Harden and Nets were making their move until KD got injured so at this point I have no prediction who will face the Celtics in the EC Finals. Even the lowly Spurs beat the Nets last night
 
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Memphis and Denver continue to rule the WC as they both win last night and the Grizz win at the buzzer. Pels continue to free fall and the Mavs also lose last night

As for the Lakers, they again were in the game until the final 68 seconds when it was all tied. Of course the old Lakers are too winded to finish and the young players are too green to understand how to finish and a dumb foul at the end by the Lakers took the Kings to the FT line where they made the shots and held tight to win the game. Again LeBron has only one mission and that is to beat Kareem's scoring record so the ball continues to go through him and he continues to score however he was throwing up bricks as well last night

As trade deadline approaches it will be interesting to see what all teams will do but especially the Lakers. They continue to underwhelm
 
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Celtics crawled back to send the game into OT. Tatum is making lots of turnovers as usual. Maturity still in progress.
 
Celtics crawled back to send the game into OT. Tatum is making lots of turnovers as usual. Maturity still in progress.
you're being modest. It was a great finish as the Celts dominate the league with the overall best record. Lakers day is coming on Saturday

 
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Jokic continues to excel at everything this year and remains a strong candidate for MVP but how about this stat so early in his career..

Nikola Jokic passes Alex English to become Nuggets' all-time assists leader

The reigning 2-time Kia MVP also becomes the first center in NBA history to lead a franchise in career assists.

 
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The Warriors and Suns remain an enigma for me this year....

Where have the Warriors gone? Collapse to Celtics could spark changes by Steve Kerr

 

The Celts have the grit and determination.

'Felt like a playoff game': Celtics outduel Warriors in overtime

BOSTON -- The Golden State Warriors returned here Thursday night for the first time since they beat the Celtics in Game 6 to claim the 2022 NBA championship.

For much of the 53 minutes of basketball that followed, it felt like a repeat of how that series played out: lots of ugly Celtics turnovers, particularly by Jayson Tatum, to go along with poor shooting and stagnant offense.

But, on a night when little went right for the home team, the Celtics did something they ultimately couldn't in last year's Finals: find a way to win. And, thanks to a Jaylen Brown 3-pointer with 18 seconds to go in regulation and their surviving a frenetic finish to overtime, Boston managed to escape with a 121-118 victory.


"That felt like a playoff game," said Brown, who finished with 16 points and nine rebounds in 41 minutes in his first game back from an adductor strain that kept him out for the past week.

"Their intensity, their force where they came, that's a game I'm sure they wanted to win. We were down, what, five to seven [points] in the fourth quarter, four, five minutes left. To be able to have poise to battle back, that shows a lot of growth. We're taking steps in the right direction."

It didn't feel like the Celtics would be able to say anything about this game being a step in a positive direction for most of the night. After a nip-and-tuck first half ended with the Warriors taking a one-point halftime lead thanks to Stephen Curry stealing the ball from Tatum and hitting a half-court shot at the buzzer, Boston fell behind by as many as 11 in the second half.

But a spirited push back into the proceedings in the fourth quarter saw Boston cut the lead to 3 and then tie it when Brown hit a wing 3-pointer following a Golden State miscommunication. Doing so absolved Tatum from a couple of particularly gruesome turnovers inside the final 90 seconds of regulation that, for a moment, seemed to hand the Warriors a victory.

However, despite their struggles -- shooting under 40% from the field and committing 17 turnovers that became 24 Warriors points -- the Celtics pointed to the way they recovered from them as a sign that things are different from when they failed to do so last June in the Finals.

"For us, we've talked about poise and physicality," Celtics interim coach Joe Mazzulla said. "Everybody asks, what did we learn [from losing in the Finals]? What have we learned? And I think what we've learned is it takes a mindset in order to be successful. And it takes a mindset to be a really, really good team in the NBA. And you can't be inconsistent with that.

I think even though you play really, really well and we win, we're still going to have some of those moments. Yeah, we had some turnovers, we had some kind of plays where it's just kind of like, 'That shouldn't happen.' But that's going to happen.

"It's about just the habits that we're growing as far as our mindset, our poise, our physicality, our ability to execute, our ability to handle the chaos of an NBA game."

That also, arguably, could've come into question when, after holding an 8-point lead with 38 seconds remaining in overtime, Boston proceeded to: foul Andrew Wiggins on a 3-pointer; commit a turnover; give up a wide-open 3-pointer; and nearly commit a 24-second violation.

All of that gave Jordan Poole a chance to get up a half-court shot to tie it at the buzzer -- but, unlike Curry's at the end of the first half, it went wanting, and the Celtics were able to survive. While the victory did little to make up for their defeat last June, it did give them revenge for a blowout loss at the hands of the Warriors earlier in the season.

"I really feel like this year we've taken a step as a group, being a little more mature handling situations, good or bad," said Al Horford, who had 20 points and 10 rebounds in 34 minutes. "Just continuing to play through and it showed tonight, because we had some huge mistakes down the stretch, end of regulation and overtime, and to be able to overcome that and stay the course, not get down on ourselves and thinking about just the next play, that's what we did.

"I was encouraged to see that from our group, but I feel like we've been much better at that this year."

What isn't in dispute is the amount of energy and attention that went into this game from everyone involved. The crowd was electrified from the opening tip and hung on every moment throughout the action. Both coaches loaded up their top players with heavy minutes; Tatum played 48 minutes and didn't come out after the first quarter, while Brown crested 40 minutes in his first game back.


Golden State, meanwhile, played Curry, Wiggins and Jordan Poole at least 40 minutes each although they have a game Friday in Cleveland. Steve Kerr replaced Kevon Looney in the starting lineup with Poole, a change he said will remain moving forward.

Ultimately, though, Boston found a way to come out on top. And, while the Celtics can't do anything about what happened last summer, they believe they are primed to create a different outcome in the playoffs this time around.

"You're going to need games like this," Tatum said. "There's going to be a handful of playoff games where you don't necessarily shoot the ball well, maybe even on the road -- under 40%, 73% from the free throw line, 17 turnovers -- and still find a way to win.

"I think that just shows the depth of our team, that on a below-average night for us, we can still find a way to win. That's all that matters at the end of the night. Did you win or did you lose?"
 
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is it too soon to be lauding 34 yo Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla as winner of the COTY ?

I seriously doubt Ime Udoka will be back on the Celtics bench ever again

Agree. Can't see him coming back too.
 
Agree. Can't see him coming back too.
I thought he was a good coach and well liked by the team. I hope he lands another coaching position
 
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Lakers at home to the red hot Memphis and trailed the entire game until 0.8 seconds left when Shroder steals the ball, makes the basket and one to put the Lakers up to win 122-121

Ja Morant was very good but got beaten by a hotter Westbrook to stop the 11 game win streak
 
as if this will make a difference in next week's game.......

Anthony Davis Reportedly 'Very Likely' To Return Next Week, Targeting Celtics Game

Mark Medina joins GameTime with a report on Anthony Davis's return from injury and how it might impact the Lakers' decision-making through the deadline.

 
Bad news for Celts. Injuries to Smart, Rob Williams, and even Tatum who missed tonight's game against the Raptors.
 
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Bad news for Celts. Injuries to Smart, Rob Williams, and even Tatum who missed tonight's game against the Raptors.
But the good news is "they won @jadis and are on a 9 game win streak
 
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