The Boston Celtics won their 18th NBA championship, and they made it look easy by disposing of the Dallas Mavericks in five games. Seeing the beatdown unfold in front of basketball fans, former NBA champion Brian Scalibrine, now a broadcast analyst, knew from the get-go that the series would be one-sided.
Despite of lacking significant playing time during his playing career and even during his short tenure with the Boston Celtics, Brian Scalibrine has become a fan favorite and his voice now matters in the basketball world after his playing career.
During an interview on Scoop B Radio, the ‘White Mamba’ expressed that the Dallas Mavericks were not a good matchup for the Celtics and teams like the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets will have a better chance in the 2024 NBA Finals if they made it out of the NBA Western Conference.
“I don’t know why they thought that matchup was close. I didn’t see it that way,” said Scalibrine. “I think [the Minnesota Timberwolves] would’ve been a good matchup. I think [the Denver Nuggets] would’ve been a good matchup. It’s just really hard when you have six guys that can guard the isolation, for them to play isolation basketball.”
It also puzzles Scalibrine, who was also part of the 2008 Celtics who won a championship, that most NBA analysts picked the Mavericks to come out on top against they Celtics during their pre-finals prediction.
“I was really never ever worried about that matchup, but i guess nine out of the 13 people at ESPN were. They picked Dallas to win that. Everyone doesn’t watch the Celtics like I do.”
Shaquille O’Neal feels that the Boston Celtics had an easy road to an NBA championship
TNT basketball analyst Shaquille O’Neal had four NBA championships in his resume and he speaks out on how the Boston Celtics won their 2024 title. The 15-time All-Star bluntly feels that with all the injuries of their opponents during the playoffs, the Celtics won their title easily without much resistance.
For Shaq, the true test of the Boston Celtics will come in the 2024-25 NBA season where the NBA Eastern Conference contenders improved.
“We all know Boston had the easiest run ever to that championship,” said O’Neal in an interview with The OGs Podcast. “Can they back it up? Can you back it up? You had an easy run, it don’t matter. Can you back it up? What you gonna do [Philadelphia]? Paul George. Joel Embiid. “What you gonna do Milwaukee? Orlando?”
The Boston Celtics open up their title defense on October 23 when they host the New York Knicks at the TD Garden in Massachusetts during ring ceremony night.
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