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Boston Celtics are on the verge of elimination after what should have been an easy series for them.
The Celtics have wasted two potential customers of 20 points and another advantage of 14 points and track their second round 3-1 playoff series to the New York Knicks.
The Celtics also lost Jayson Tatum for an Achilles torn in the final purposes of game 4.
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Dave Portnoy and Mikal Bridges (Getty images/imagn)
It is a gloomy perspective for Boston, but the founder of Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy, who predicted that the series was over after Boston won game 3, hopes to use his Fandom powers of the Celtics forever.
Portnoy said he ran into a Knicks star in a Boston hotel before game 5 and gave him a message.
“I saw Mikal Bridges at the hotel this morning. I gave him a subtle: ‘Hey, you don’t break your wrist,” Portnoy said at his departure.
Portnoy said it was a “joke.”
“It was like a type of stool. It touched me and I’m like, ‘it’s fine.’ And he says: ‘Hey, it’s good to see you,” Portnoy added.
The New York Knicks striker, Mikal Bridges (25), reacts after removing the ball from the Boston Celtics guard, Jaylen Brown, to win the game 1 of the second round of the NBA playoffs of 2025 in extra time in TD Garden. (David Butler II/Imagn images)
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Bridges is one of several “Nova Knicks” that also includes Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart. The former student of Villanova Donte Divinnzo was changed to the Timberwolves of Minnesota, along with Julius Randle, for the cities of Karl-Anthony in the low season. Brunson, Hart, Divinzzo and Bridges won a national championship with the Wildcats.
New York returned from 20 -point deficits in games 1 and 2, which were played in Boston, and Bridges played fundamental roles in both games. He obtained the winning theft of game in game 1 and blocked a possible blow of buzzer in game 2.
But Boston would not give up such leadership in game 3, which led many to wonder if the Knicks races were a coincidence.
In game 4, the Knicks were lost again by two digits in the second half, and did not merge them at all. They finished the third quarter in a 30-13 race to take a three-point advantage, and another 18-5 race at the end of the room completed the return after Tatum was injured.
The coaches help Jayson Tatum (0) of the Boston Celtics out of the court after he was injured during the second half of game 4 in the semifinals of the Conference this against the New York Knicks on Monday, May 12, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
If New York eliminates the reigning champions, it will be the first trip of the Knicks to the Eastern Conference Finals since 2000.
