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Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks are set to face Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics in this year‘s NBA Finals. It is no surprise that Boston made it this far, as they dominated the Eastern Conference all season long, it is a bit more surprising to see Dallas in the Finals.
The 5th seed in the Western Conference, Dallas had to go through the LA Clippers, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Minnesota Timberwolves to reach this point. Doing so behind the greatness of Doncic, Dallas is now four wins away from another NBA championship.
This announcement came as a bit of a surprise, because while nobody questions the popularity of Doncic, this particular play was not one that seemed to be anywhere near the top of his best career highlights. That said, it was a very exciting play, and the NBA says it is now their most viewed highlight.
Always making history in one way or another, Doncic has been great for the NBA since being drafted, and continues to reach new heights. If he can add a championship to his resume, Doncic will enter an even greater tier of superstardom.
The Celtics earned the playoffs’ top seed with a 64-18 record in the regular season, but their journey through the first three playoff rounds could hardly have been easier. In the first round, they hammered an eighth-seeded Heat team missing Jimmy Butler; in the second, they coasted against a fourth-seeded Cavaliers squad missing, at various points, Jarrett Allen, Donovan Mitchell, and Caris LeVert; in the conference finals, they pushed past a sixth-seeded Pacers group missing Tyrese Haliburton for half of the sweep. No wonder the Celtics have incited claims that theirs is the easiest path ever to the Finals.
That isn’t actually true throughout all of NBA history. Back in the early days, top seeds sometimes needed to win only one round to reach the Finals. In both 1959 and 1961, for instance, the Celtics received a bye to the conference finals, then beat the under-.500 Syracuse Nationals—and voilà, two Finals berths! (Was Bill Russell a fraud?!?!?! The greatest thread in the history of forums.)
