Boston – Celtics star Jason Tatum has been six months since the TD Garden Center in Boston’s TD Garden has been up to six months after receiving the championship rings and addressing the fans a few minutes after watching the 18th banner of the franchise raised on the rafters.
Tatum agreed with the fans thanking the fans for their support during the title run. Then he paused and expressed a final wish.
“Let’s do it again,” he said.
The quest begins on Sunday when the previous second seed Boston will open the first round’s play-off series against the seventh-descendant Orlando Magic.
Golden State Warriors have not won the Back-to-Back NBA Championship since the latest 2016-17 and 2017-18.
Celtics are in a good position to finish their second straight 60-win season to finish repeated droughts.
However, Tatum said that at this point the most distant thing from their minds.
“We are not concerned about anything other than magic right now,” Tatum said. “We’re not looking at the second, third or fourth round We We’re able to try to make it it that is what is trying to get ready for game 1 in our minds”
There is a big question mark to enter the postsison of the Celtics, which is the health and final MVP of the last season’s conference, Zellen Brown, whose right knee issue, which forced him to miss the final three games of the season regularly.
Coach Joe Majullah confirmed that Brown recently received an injection on his knee, as well as added that Brown had no limitations and was a complete participant in practice this week.
“I am not here to talk about my knee boys,” Brown said on Saturday when asked about the current state of it. “That’s what it is. I’m focusing on Orlando.”
However, he also acknowledged that the pain in his knee is inspiration with the pain.
“You can say it. I don’t put too much pressure on myself,” he said. “I took it a day at once and things to read where they could go i’m
Guard Jalen Sugs was dismissed for the rest of the season after the knee surgery on March 7, and appeared as a team in Boston and afterwards, and forward Mortaz Wagner was left on his left knee and left for ACL on January 5 after surgery.
Nevertheless, after completing the regular season in their final 15 games and then routing at Atlanta in the Play-in Tournament, in his fourth season, coach Jamahl Mosley returned to the second direct season’s play off.
“But you got there, you got there,” said Mosle. “Sometimes the way is in one way and
Despite posting the best Road Season (1-5) in Team History, the season’s series lost to Magic 2-1 to Magic with both losses in Boston Orlando.
Boston did not have Tatum in both damage. However, what was not the fluke was that the magic holds Celtics at the lowest 3-points of their 3-points during the three-match time (11.3) during the 100 property this season this season.
Orlando has entered the series by creating 3 3-points against Hawks, a team that wants to compete with the Boston team is a powerful sign that has created a new NBA record with 1,457 3-point this season.
However, Mosle said that they did not expect to try to go to-toe with the Celtic in that section.
“You’re not trying to run the rat with them they have shot a game of 50 3s, it’s not our identity and we will not try to make it our identity,” he said. “But at the end of the day, our boys have 20 runs for 5 (play-in against Hawks) and still have 20 assistance and we have been told about the group, and for the skill of getting protective stops, where we hang our hat.”
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