Are the 2024 Playoffs Make or Break for the Celtics?

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It’s hard not to notice that championships are often the end all, be all in sports discourse. But in the case of the 2023-24 Boston Celtics, it may just be true. Boston has been one of the most successful franchises in the NBA in recent seasons, but the Celtics have not yet captured a ring in 16 years. Today, ESPN NBA writer Tim Bontemps explains why this Celtics team has been as good as almost any other squad in basketball history. But he also tells us that without a title at the end of the day, that doesn’t matter at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Timbond-Tamps, a couple weeks ago, a friend of ours had this to say about the Boston Celtics
0:06.1	2024 season.
0:09.0	I think that's the way you have to look at this Celtic season, where if they don't win the championship you have to
0:14.1	deem it a failure.
0:15.1	So Tim do you agree with that guy?
0:18.0	I do agree with that guy.
0:18.9	He's a pretty bright guy as is the new official host of E.S.B. and Daily, my guy Clinton Yates, who I was very glad to see on the
0:26.1	E. S. B. P. account, we had a nice big splashy announcement with you color-coded
0:30.9	matching with the South by Southwest logo in the background.
0:35.0	Man with a theme, I got Clinton Yates, he's always got style, I was very happy to see that
0:40.3	on every front.
0:41.3	Thank you, Tim.
0:42.3	And as for your question, I do think that this is, that still applies to the Celtics, for all the reasons
0:49.0	that it's applied to the Celtics going all the way back to the end of last season.
0:58.6	The Miami Heats in probable post-season run continues
1:01.6	after blowing a three nothing series lead the heat stopped the Celtics in Boston and make history themselves
1:10.0	This is a team that over the past several years has played in a metric ton of playoff games.
1:16.0	There's one the most regular season games since Jaylon Brown was drafted in the 2016-17 season or they're a winner to behind the Milwaukee Bucks depending on the day
1:25.6	and they've won more playoff games than any team but the Golden State Warriors.
1:29.2	The Bucks have won a championship during that run.
1:31.6	It's over.
1:33.0	The Bucks have done it.
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