Opening Up The Files On The Boston Celtics

ESPN host believes Celtics will rewrite history, come back to win ECF series

The Celtics haven’t made things easy on themselves in the Eastern Conference Finals.

After going down three games to none to start the series, the Celtics won Game 4 in Miami to keep championship run alive at least one more game.

Although there has never been a team in NBA history to come back from a 3-0 deficit in any playoff series, ESPN’s Mike Greenberg believes the Celtics will become the first team to do so.

“The impact that the coach has had in this series — Erik Spoelstra — has been disproportionate to what we usually see in the NBA, which is to say I think he has so coached circles around Joe Mazzulla for the beginning of the series. But there comes a point where you run out of tricks, you run out of things you can do. At the end of the day, the beauty of a seven-game series is that you have to earn it every single time. At the end of the day, if these teams just go out there and play, the Celtics should win every single game. They’re just better in every single game.”

“If Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown can figure out how to get this thing together, I’m sitting here telling you right now I believe history is about to be rewritten. It’s about to be 150 against one instead of 150 against none. I’m old enough to remember when a 16-seed had never won an NCAA Tournament game. It’s happened twice in the last four or five years. Someone’s got to break through. This is the team to do it.”

The Celtics are entering uncharted territories as this type of comeback has never done before but if any team is going to it, it might as well be this Celtics group.

Game 5 is tomorrow in Boston.

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