Fans of the Boston Celtics are waking up to heartache on Tuesday after watching their team come close – but not close enough – to making NBA history.
The Miami Heat easily beat them in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Monday night, putting an end to a very long, sometimes frustrating season.
What caused such a breakdown in Game 7?
According to NBA analyst Alan Hahn, fate brought the Celtics down.
“Karma got the Celtics,” Hahn said on Tuesday’s Get Up, before listing a slew of reasons why the storied franchise missed their chance at another Finals appearance.
"Karma got the Celtics. … This is the play that you thought would go down in history. But instead it was the Celtics that went down WITH history."
—@alanhahn 😳 pic.twitter.com/qh7M3W3yAX
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) May 30, 2023
Hahn didn’t go easy on the Celtics and the points he made are fair.
He said the Celtics had trouble in these playoffs from the beginning.
First, they chose to “mess around” against the Atlanta Hawks in the first round, according to Hahn.
Following that, they only beat the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round because the Sixers “never get out of the second round.”
They then started the Eastern Conference Finals in the worst way possible, losing three games in a row.
They were able to rally back and tie the series but Hahn said that their eventual loss shouldn’t have been surprising at all.
“They never finish their business,” Hahn said about the team.
There will be many fans who point out that Jayson Tatum was hurt in Game 7 and that caused the team’s defeat.
But it should never have even gone to seven games in the first place, according to Hahn.
The Celtics had a great regular season and a rough postseason.
They got further than nearly any other team but they are surely unhappy with how it all turned out and they will definitely want to make changes before the new season begins.
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