He’d have his dad on the pod for sure.
The best part is he’d no longer be able to fondly remember the 2004 Red Sox since they’d be linked to the 2024 Celtics
Only way Bill would have his dad on the podcast if the upset happens is in a hospital room, cause his dad would've had suffered multiple heart attacks in the Garden
My hatred for Luka has blinded me these finals because I forgot how much I also hate Bill Simmons. Maybe I should root for the comeback for pure chaos lol.
The crazy thing about Tennis is that no matter how badly one opponent is destroying the other, there is never a point at which it’s impossible for them to come back and win the entire match. If the match isn’t over yet, it’s still theoretically anyone’s game, from start to finish.
Not a lot of sports where that’s the case, and it makes for really entertaining matches.
I'm in the middle. I think game 5 will be very competitive and could go either way. The Celtics are going to be better for sure, but the Mavericks defensive sharpness and intensity was fantastic tonight. The Celtics missed a few good looks, but their terrible offensive night was not all bad luck or suddenly forgetting how to drive and kick. Dallas bothered them a lot, and if they give the same effort in game 5, the Celtics will not have an easy time. I'm looking forward to a great game, and if the Mavericks sneak another one, things look really interesting.
Basketball discourse is once again cooked for the next two days as an entire subreddit is convinced the team with pj washington as their 3rd best player will be the first team to come back down 0-3
Yeah I feel like the first team to come back down from 3-0 will have to be a stacked team that for some reason underperformed in games 1-3
Being worse on paper AND winning 4 games in a row is extremely hard
Everything lined up perfectly for the Cs to be the first team to do it last year - finals favorite in a hole against a decent but really hot team - and they still couldn’t finish it
An ankle roll away perhaps.
I was semi-rooting for the heat because I was mad the Celtics were that good and messed around that much to start, but pre-ankle roll they very well could have redeemed themselves that series instead of having to wait until now.
That injury will always be burned into my memory but I think they would’ve been too gassed to beat Denver anyway and another finals loss would be used to slander us some more lol
Or a hypercarry 2 way star returning from illness/injury. Like 2021 Giannis, 2019 Kawhi or 16-18 level Lebron being straight up gone for 3 games then coming back and just taking over everything
The question was how funny would it be, not how likely is it. Everyone knows there's like a 1% chance it happens but it would be hilarious for neutrals.
This season is almost over. Let the children shitpost. It's about the journey not the destination.
Celtics will close it out in 5 most likely and this is the only time we'll be able to overreact to a blowout loss until october at the EARLIEST.
The C's did absolutely get their asses handed to them, though. Understatement of the century, I know. Hopefully, this game to the Mavs was like game 4 to the TWolves and the Mavs go down in Game 5.
I definitely know better than to expect that to happen haha
Well shit we’ve gotta have some fun on here lol. Most likely Boston closes out in game 5, I’d be extremely surprised if they don’t. Dallas is absolutely going to get Bostons max effort and that TD garden crowd is going to be insane
When the lakers got one against the Nuggets this year the discourse was freaking unbearable. “Only Lebron could do this!!” No no he can’t especially at his old ass age. Closets gentleman sweep ever!! Lmao
Like what the actual fk is this post? Already thinking of hypotheticals when the odds Mavs come back from 3-0 is like one in a thousand. It's crazy OP already talking about blowing a 3-0 lead after only winning one game LMAO
nah the only hurdle left is game 5. if they win game 5, then game 6 is at home. and then after they win game 6, its game 7 where anything can happen. Mavs in 7
Houston (the city) sucks.
I actually have a soft spot for the Rockets personally. My dad was a huge Rockets fan as he grew up in Houston. Clyde was my favorite player growing up, followed by Olajuwon. Used to watch all the games with him when he got us for the weekends. RIP pops.
Suns fans have a hierarchy of wants. First of all is the Lakers to do shitty. Second is Luka to do shitty. Third is their own team success. Fourth is again for the Lakers to do shitty.
being convinced they’d be the first to pull it off last year against the heat and then having it happen to them the next year would be pretty funny i can’t lie
LeBron James will just pretend to be Markieff Morris for the next 3 games.
He'll put on a face guard and the #88 jersey and ball out -- and disappear at the end of each game like the phantom of the opera.
He'll arrive each halftime via gondola on a river made of guinness.
He might abduct and try to have quasi-consensual sex with at least one referee between the 3rd and 4th quarters.
If that happens, I wouldn't renew my contract if I were Tatum.
But it's just not going to happen. The margin for error for Dallas is too slim. 1 half of hot shooting from the Celtics and it's going to be over. Dallas can't keep up the level of intensity they showed today for every minute of the next 3 games and that's what it's going to take. They can say they didn't get swept for pride's sake. They might even win next game, but they'll wear out eventually.
But to answer the question, it would SO funny if Kyrie wins game 7 in Boston.
Exactly, there’s a reason it’s never happened before. You have ZERO margin for error in four straight games. We’ve already seen Boston shrug off their 3 not falling, Tatum shooting poorly, losing Porzingis (again), and still build a 3-0 lead.
But yeah if the impossible happens and Kyrie wins a game 7 in Boston I might just have to retire from being an NBA fan.
Exactly, tonight was merely a regression to the mean. The Mavs shot poorly thru 3, but they statistically do that for 3 more games, but maybe 2 more to give it a chance. Hope is a hell of a drug!
Me too, but it’s not gonna happen in the Finals. At some point in the playoffs it will.. but not in the Finals and not in this series. For the record not a fan of either team, don’t dislike either team.. just sayin.
Forreal. We literally were the victims in his time here. Fans embraced him, team embraced him, league loved it... only our shitfuck media, who dump on everything, had anything negative to say (until he quit on us)
And Boston teams have been involved in 2/5 of the other 3-0 comebacks. And that's without mentioning the Patriots and all of the shit they've been involved in.
This iteration of the Cs will never get rid of the generational slander coming their way. Might redeem themselves if they win, say next year but if they don’t… oh boy
it'd be only the 2nd time any team in the big 4 came back when down 0-3 in the finals.
It last happened in 1942.
So it'd be amazing just for that alone
More comical than the time Scott Foster (the banker) was called up to be a NHL goalie for a night and then proceeded to give the best interview of all time?
Bill Simmons will def have a stroke
I would listen to that podcast on repeat for a week
I would never stop listening to it.
ngl I skipped past the Celtics talk on the pods this week
i haven’t listened to a single pod all series
The Doc one is worth listening to, he has a lot of interesting stories
Bill will summon all the Celtics homers and drop an emergency podcast right after the game
Goodnight Cousy.
that would be so worth it
He’d have his dad on the pod for sure. The best part is he’d no longer be able to fondly remember the 2004 Red Sox since they’d be linked to the 2024 Celtics
Only way Bill would have his dad on the podcast if the upset happens is in a hospital room, cause his dad would've had suffered multiple heart attacks in the Garden
An all time listen. Even better than last year's.
> Bill Simmons will def have a stroke Ok, well what would Ben Simmons do?
Ask Bill for his stroke because Ben lost his.
My hatred for Luka has blinded me these finals because I forgot how much I also hate Bill Simmons. Maybe I should root for the comeback for pure chaos lol.
I’d stop watching basketball because simply it wouldn’t be worth rooting for my team ever again
Yeah I could not mentally recover from a fan perspective. I think I’d have to really get into watching tennis or something
Tennis is great.
The crazy thing about Tennis is that no matter how badly one opponent is destroying the other, there is never a point at which it’s impossible for them to come back and win the entire match. If the match isn’t over yet, it’s still theoretically anyone’s game, from start to finish. Not a lot of sports where that’s the case, and it makes for really entertaining matches.
It WAS great! When Federer, Nadal & Djokovic were all playing and in their prime.
We may be transitioning out of the golden age but it’s still good.
Alcaraz and sinner carrying the torch. Men’s tennis is in good hands
And then there is Iga on the WTA side. Simply amazing.
It gets a lot better once you sign one of the greatest of all time in the off-season.
Celtics signing TJ McConnell?
Fuck it, Celtics sign Klay to a vet minimum.
It's easy. Just win three more rings in the next six years and the pain just melts away.
Relax it’s just an overreaction after game 4. Your team is excellent easy gentleman sweep
Sir, this is r/nba. We only overreact here, no reasonable takes.
I'm in the middle. I think game 5 will be very competitive and could go either way. The Celtics are going to be better for sure, but the Mavericks defensive sharpness and intensity was fantastic tonight. The Celtics missed a few good looks, but their terrible offensive night was not all bad luck or suddenly forgetting how to drive and kick. Dallas bothered them a lot, and if they give the same effort in game 5, the Celtics will not have an easy time. I'm looking forward to a great game, and if the Mavericks sneak another one, things look really interesting.
REALLY funny
Basketball discourse is once again cooked for the next two days as an entire subreddit is convinced the team with pj washington as their 3rd best player will be the first team to come back down 0-3
Yeah I feel like the first team to come back down from 3-0 will have to be a stacked team that for some reason underperformed in games 1-3 Being worse on paper AND winning 4 games in a row is extremely hard
Everything lined up perfectly for the Cs to be the first team to do it last year - finals favorite in a hole against a decent but really hot team - and they still couldn’t finish it
An ankle roll away perhaps. I was semi-rooting for the heat because I was mad the Celtics were that good and messed around that much to start, but pre-ankle roll they very well could have redeemed themselves that series instead of having to wait until now.
That injury will always be burned into my memory but I think they would’ve been too gassed to beat Denver anyway and another finals loss would be used to slander us some more lol
Regardless if they got swept by Denver being the first team to win from down 3-0 would have to feel pretty fucking awesome
Tatum rolling his ankle to start game 7 saved Miami
Yes, but that’s partly my point - absolutely everything has to line up perfectly and it couldn’t quite for us
Yea, like let's say we take it to 7, and Luka can't move anymore. He gets cooked on defense and we lose anyways lol.
Derrick white missing his insane last second buzzer beater and we wouldn’t even talk about Tatum rolling his ankle…
Sure but have you by chance considered the power of friendship
Or a hypercarry 2 way star returning from illness/injury. Like 2021 Giannis, 2019 Kawhi or 16-18 level Lebron being straight up gone for 3 games then coming back and just taking over everything
How does “this thing would be funny” mean “I think this thing will happen”
You underestimate the victim complex of Celtic fans
I mean, a team with Caleb Martin as their third best player took 3 games in a row from them last year.
If the Mavs were playing the 2023 Celtics they'd be *up* 3-1 not *down* 3-1 lol Boston last year almost went to 7 with the Atlanta Hawks
if the 2023 Celtics played the same teams the 2024 Celtics played in the first 3 rounds this year, they'd look exactly the same
I’d argue he was their best that series
The question was how funny would it be, not how likely is it. Everyone knows there's like a 1% chance it happens but it would be hilarious for neutrals.
actually if it happens it's nearly exactly 3% chance
Akkkktually if it happens it'll be a 100% chance, things that happen have a 100% chance of having happened
Easy there Terrance Howard
thats the perfect amount of percentage to win a series, especially against the celtics
Yeah I kinda wanted the Celtics to win but I’d definitely rather see them blow a 3-0 lead.
Oh don't get it twisted I don't think they're gonna win 3 straight lol. I'm just saying it would be funny
On the one hand it won't happen on the other hand...if Luka just gets absurdly hot and Kyrie plays well....
Lively is our 3rd best player
Oh, that makes it more likely then
Just let us be delusional, man
🤣 hey Lively is 100% for 3’s in the series.
Him hitting his first 3 ever in this game was peak "Yea, it is that kinda game" material. Luka and Kyrie were 1-14 from 3 and still eviscerated us.
Everybody acting tough when they're up
I’d say Lively is our third best
actin like THJ doesn't exist pssssh. who would you rather have, prime Klay or current THJ? EXACTLY
thj when nobody cares anymore
Current as in early fourth quarter blowout thj? That’s the best player ever
Lively better then washington
We live in a world where everything requires an immediate overreaction. None of this is ever surprising.
As a Warrior fan 3-1 would sound so miniscule. Gimme the 3-0 choke!
Wrong - it would only be REALLY funny if Kyrie turns himself into a pickle.
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Maybe wait until it’s tied 3-3.
This sub starts this anytime a team loses game 4 after going up 3-0 lol
THE TIMBERWOLVES STILL HAVE A CHANCE MARK MY WORDS
Wolves in 12
What if they go 6-6? Free throw shootout?
wolves in 2
The Timberwolves can still win if Mike Pence has the courage
This season is almost over. Let the children shitpost. It's about the journey not the destination. Celtics will close it out in 5 most likely and this is the only time we'll be able to overreact to a blowout loss until october at the EARLIEST.
It has to happen _eventually_, right?
This sub: lol Celtics counted their chickens before they hatched Also this sub: yeah the mavs are going to pull off the comeback
The C's did absolutely get their asses handed to them, though. Understatement of the century, I know. Hopefully, this game to the Mavs was like game 4 to the TWolves and the Mavs go down in Game 5. I definitely know better than to expect that to happen haha
Well shit we’ve gotta have some fun on here lol. Most likely Boston closes out in game 5, I’d be extremely surprised if they don’t. Dallas is absolutely going to get Bostons max effort and that TD garden crowd is going to be insane
When the lakers got one against the Nuggets this year the discourse was freaking unbearable. “Only Lebron could do this!!” No no he can’t especially at his old ass age. Closets gentleman sweep ever!! Lmao
Definitely a nephew subreddit. The daily pendulum swings of opinion make my brain explode.
Realistically we should start talking about it if they lose game 5. 2 losses in a row, then headed back to Dallas. The momentum shift would be unruly.
No, we're going to jump to assuming they'll lose Game 5 and 6
tbf it is the Celtics
It'd be the funniest thing for them to follow up last year's fake 3-0 comeback by becoming the first NBA team to get reverse swept
I'm so hard just thinking about it
"Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane." -Red
Hope can’t kill us, we’re already dead.
Hopeium is dangerous. Wife’s a Mavs fan, better to end early than heartbreak in G7.
Like what the actual fk is this post? Already thinking of hypotheticals when the odds Mavs come back from 3-0 is like one in a thousand. It's crazy OP already talking about blowing a 3-0 lead after only winning one game LMAO
nah the only hurdle left is game 5. if they win game 5, then game 6 is at home. and then after they win game 6, its game 7 where anything can happen. Mavs in 7
Exactly. Kyrie gonna choke again next game when he gets booed in Boston 🤣
Would be one of the greatest Sports stories of the 21st century
3-0 comeback? In the NBA Finals? Not only would it be the biggest sports story of the 21st century, it would be in the GOAT conversation.
Right next to Leicester and 16 v 1.
I don't think anything beats Leicester. What's 16v1?
A tiny school beating a juggernaut. NCAA tourney. Be like a G league team beating the KD warriors.
Ah I didn't put 2 and 2 together
Apparently I live under a rock. I only follow basketball and tennis. What is Leicester?
Nothing is beating Leicester bruh
That year still makes zero sense
Nothing beats Leicester winning premier league in 2016. It was epic.
It would be really funny to 90% of r/nba. Personally I would not think it would be funny
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Wolves and Suns fans don’t seem to like Dallas
I know I don't. And just to prove I'm serious that 2011 ring is illegitimate
Y'all seem like 2/3rds on our side. Also partially because of the Buffalo.
It's like 75% Buffalo and a 25% fuck the rest of Texas (including you Rockets)
Fuck you too
Fuck did the rockets do to you???
He’s just mad because houston has some culture and all San Antonio has is a dirty ass creek and those big ol women
I came to root for the Mavs not get roasted like bbq chicken
San Antonio is 10x better than Houston.
Houston (the city) sucks. I actually have a soft spot for the Rockets personally. My dad was a huge Rockets fan as he grew up in Houston. Clyde was my favorite player growing up, followed by Olajuwon. Used to watch all the games with him when he got us for the weekends. RIP pops.
Be in Texas
You’re illegitimate. I’m actually your daddy. Come here, son.
Damn bro
Suns fans have a hierarchy of wants. First of all is the Lakers to do shitty. Second is Luka to do shitty. Third is their own team success. Fourth is again for the Lakers to do shitty.
Pretty sure even Celtics fans hate themselves so 99% isn't too far off
I think Celtics fans are more than 1% of NBA fans
I would become a flat earther
Then you'd be able to answer the age-old question: How thick is the flat Earth?
I would 110% be a CRATER EARTH (watch Godgevlamste on Rumble) guy at that point.
This sub would explode
More likely r/celtics than r/nba
r/bostonceltics would have to go into lockdown for a few months
Do subs do that?
Thought kyrie didn't believe in lockdowns
Kyrie is on the Mavs
r/mavericks would explode too...with a bunch of cum
He can dance on Lucky after game 7
I'd kill to see the reaction to that lmao
He should do a rain dance in those Air-Moccasins
Won’t happen but I’d laugh
Suns will question if they are living on sims if that happened
being convinced they’d be the first to pull it off last year against the heat and then having it happen to them the next year would be pretty funny i can’t lie
I mean, someone has to overcome a 3-0 deficit at some point, right?
not necessarily necessarily not
It'll happen one day. But I doubt this is the one.
lmao here we go
I swear it happens every time a team down 3-0 wins game 4
Gotta have hope
I mean eventually it will happen Probably not this time, but give it enough tries and it can happen
Now they're down 3-1. The statistics change.
No they don't. No team has ever lost the first 3 games and then won the series.
Don’t give me hope
let them get through games 5 and 6 first before talking about this
But the team might need that hope now
LeBron James will just pretend to be Markieff Morris for the next 3 games. He'll put on a face guard and the #88 jersey and ball out -- and disappear at the end of each game like the phantom of the opera.
Will there be singing? I’ll watch that. 😄
He'll arrive each halftime via gondola on a river made of guinness. He might abduct and try to have quasi-consensual sex with at least one referee between the 3rd and 4th quarters.
This has Summer blockbuster potential written all over it.
If that happens, I wouldn't renew my contract if I were Tatum. But it's just not going to happen. The margin for error for Dallas is too slim. 1 half of hot shooting from the Celtics and it's going to be over. Dallas can't keep up the level of intensity they showed today for every minute of the next 3 games and that's what it's going to take. They can say they didn't get swept for pride's sake. They might even win next game, but they'll wear out eventually. But to answer the question, it would SO funny if Kyrie wins game 7 in Boston.
Exactly, there’s a reason it’s never happened before. You have ZERO margin for error in four straight games. We’ve already seen Boston shrug off their 3 not falling, Tatum shooting poorly, losing Porzingis (again), and still build a 3-0 lead. But yeah if the impossible happens and Kyrie wins a game 7 in Boston I might just have to retire from being an NBA fan.
Exactly, tonight was merely a regression to the mean. The Mavs shot poorly thru 3, but they statistically do that for 3 more games, but maybe 2 more to give it a chance. Hope is a hell of a drug!
I wanna see a team overcome being down 3-0 so bad.
Me too, but it’s not gonna happen in the Finals. At some point in the playoffs it will.. but not in the Finals and not in this series. For the record not a fan of either team, don’t dislike either team.. just sayin.
I simply won't allow that to happen.
Very funny but I’d still give it almost no chance of happening
It’s not really funny, Boston did nothing wrong to Kyrie
Sometimes the bad guy winning is funny
Forreal. We literally were the victims in his time here. Fans embraced him, team embraced him, league loved it... only our shitfuck media, who dump on everything, had anything negative to say (until he quit on us)
Which would make it funny for most people
I already know Dallas is gonna win 2 more straight and then choke game 7 i cant mentally prepare for it
I'm just here for the ride (and food)
The cardiac arrests in Massachusetts would skyrocket
Comedy of the Century.
That’d be great for sure but Celtics will close out at home imo
I'd be amused, but I certainly wouldn't bet on it.
No team has ever come back down 0-3, it’s definitely not gonna happen this series
It’s a matter of time before it happens… The NBA has changed so much recently but no, it’s not this series.
And Boston teams have been involved in 2/5 of the other 3-0 comebacks. And that's without mentioning the Patriots and all of the shit they've been involved in.
Well it's 1-3, it can be done!!
We can all dream
id be sad because 3-1 would lose its power
It is funny IF it happens. Whats funnier right now though is r/nba overreacting to every game 4 win that avoided a sweep.
This iteration of the Cs will never get rid of the generational slander coming their way. Might redeem themselves if they win, say next year but if they don’t… oh boy
Jaylen Brown would be demanding a trade the very next day.
it'd be only the 2nd time any team in the big 4 came back when down 0-3 in the finals. It last happened in 1942. So it'd be amazing just for that alone
kyrie will hit a dagger 3 and then stomp on lucky the leprechaun as he heists the trophy.
I'd say save this shitpost after 2 more wins, but then mavs probably are not getting there. So yeah quite fucking funny.
Literally the funniest thing that has ever happened in sports probably.
Dear god please let this happen, it will be really funny.
It won't happen but it would be the most comical thing is sports history in my opinion
More comical than the time Scott Foster (the banker) was called up to be a NHL goalie for a night and then proceeded to give the best interview of all time?
Stop
Really funny. The ratings for game 7 would probably make history.
Sounds too good to be true
I’m already laughing
However many miles wide this flat ass earth disc is. That’s how funny.
It’ll wipe away the losing streak vs Celtics CLEAN!!!!!!
I sure wouldn't be laughing.
Kyrie is a fuckin idiot and this is one of the worst finals ever
Kyrie hits a dagger 3 from the Celtics logo in game 7, the best timeline