This received’t shock you, however Paul Pierce has some good issues to say in regards to the Boston Celtics. Through the Boston.com:
Paul Pierce is aware of what it takes to convey an NBA title to Boston.
The Celtics legend was the NBA Finals MVP for the group’s final championship staff in 2008. Fourteen years later, with Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown main a Celtics squad that’s received 18 of its final 21 video games, Pierce believes that this present iteration of the Celtics would possibly hit the identical ceiling because the 2008 Celtics.
“Properly, Jayson Tatum’s taking part in at an MVP stage. The Celtics are taking part in their finest basketball proper now,” Pierce informed NBC Sports activities Boston’s Abby Chin throughout Friday night time’s Celtics recreation. “In the event that they proceed to play like this, I may see them within the Japanese Convention Finals and probably the NBA Finals.”
Pierce is completely right on this, in fact. The Celtics are presently fifth, and rising currently, in a decent Japanese convention race whose mid and higher seeds are huge open for the taking.
After a gradual begin to the season, Celtics basketball is on a severe roll nowadays, and so they’re taking part in in addition to nearly any staff within the league.
