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It’s hard to be a superstar. In baseball, they pitch around you. In football, they’ll load the line. Basketball? No getting around it, even Jordan had rules. There are only a handful of pros capable of handling 20 shots a night without killing their team. For most NBA
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Never Too Much podcast: Game Fives0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Bulls/Lakers Game 5 in 1991, Warriors/Celtics Game 5 in 2022, Christopher Cross’ muse.) LOUDMOUTH POWER FORWARD RUINS FINALS “Just because basketball is not the most important thing in my life, I apologize to the world,” he
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The winner of Game 4 was going to earn a serious edge — 3-1 lead but with the next game on the road or tied 2-2 but with home court advantage — so Golden State fell back on the things we expected. Thing. Good muscle memory down the stretch for
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Questions for Game 40:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Gobert on the Bulls, the Finals on our hands, opening $28 worth of used LPs.) 1. How are you feeling, Robert Williams Robert Williams when asked how he’s feeling today: “feeling good this morning. One of my better days.
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Stephen Curry tried to go for 25 in the third quarter. Steve Kerr ran pick and roll. Klay Thompson came back, and Golden State’s bench showed up. Yet the Celts were not to be had. The Warriors gave their Golden, yet Boston was better, and pulled the 2-1
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The Celtics will be terrified on Wednesday night. This young team is familiar playing deep into the postseason but there is nothing like the pressure of defending home court in the Finals, especially with a smirking set of Warriors on the other side of the stripe.
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“Questionable” for Game 2, they told us. Robert Williams III, out but probably in, the Boston Celtics giving the Silicone-sainted Golden State Warriors the runaround with RWIII. Bettors, too! Game 2 clicks on and Robert Williams, “questionable,” is again inside the starting lineup. The Warriors seem a little annoyed,
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It was hard to determine when Al Horford was tallest in that fourth quarter. Possibly when he intercepted a Draymond Green (too short) entry pass with five minutes left, at the same moment ABC televised Steve Kerr’s “we gotta go, now!”-timeout, the speech behind the desperate play Horford
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BOSTON CELTICS C: Robert Williams — interior presence is one reason GSW wants a quick hit to this series, TL is “questionable” for Game 1 but feasibly “a whole hell of a lot better” by Game 5 on June 13. F/C: Al Horford — around for Boston’s regular season win
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Jimmy Butler’s miss in Game 7 came from my dreams. Maybe it came from yours, too, see, I grew up watching Scottie Pippen take those sorts of transition threes, living off those line-drives, the momentum, the story arc dissolving into zero arc, either a straight-shot swish or
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If you gave the Miami Heat zero chance in Game 6, if you assumed the Celtics clinched at home, if you doubted Jimmy Butler’s ability to walk, yo, you were fine for that. If you skipped the game, Friday night on a party weekend, it’s understandable. But Butler
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Stupid take fouls, and the boring regular season