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Boomer & Gio

Celtics Or Sixers The Better Matchup For Knicks

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A caller from Boston asks the question. We eventually settle on the notion of Al Dukes being his communities neighborhood watchman.

Transcript

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0:00.0

John is in Boston. What's up, John? Good morning. Boomer Gio, happy Friday. Happy Friday, John.

0:06.9

What's happening, John? All right, my man. I'm looking at the Celtics and Philadelphia series.

0:12.9

I mean, I live up here. I'm not a Celtics fan necessarily, but I think that the 76s would provide a tougher

0:18.6

matchup against the Knicks. Here's why. I think if you look at the Celtics 76ers series, I think Philadelphia has four of the top six players out there. I mean, because obviously Tatum and Brown are sensational, but Derek White had a no show in this series. Peyton Pritchard had one game. Sam Howard Houser's done nothing. And that was always my concern with the Celtics is that when you get to the postseason, Hauser and Peyton Pritchard and those types of guys, you know, during the regular season, they're draining threes and blowing teams up. But when you get into those heightened matchups, it is a lot more difficult than it is during the regular season. And they, quite frankly, have no one who can even remotely cover Joe L.M.

0:54.9

I think the 76 is the way Paul George is playing right now,

0:58.6

I think they would provide maybe even tougher matchup against the Knicks and the Celtics.

1:02.7

That's why I'm taking to 76ers and the points in this game.

1:06.0

I can't believe that the Celtics are favored by this amount of points.

1:09.5

Seven and a half for game seven, yeah.

1:12.1

Yeah, I'm telling you that the momentum has shifted in this particular series.

1:16.7

Yeah.

1:16.9

And I know that Jerry was talking about how, you know, they took Tadam out of the game last night.

1:21.1

He had a calf, maybe a little bit of a problem there.

1:24.3

And Brown had all these offensive fouls called against them in the last two games

1:29.0

hey look man 76ers are playing great basketball right now and they're all healthy and they're

1:36.0

definitely a team that is like seasoned experienced well i was going to say it's like it's almost

1:41.9

like a jingo with them because there's so many guys that could go down because you think about Paul George or Joel Embed and then the whole thing just completely collapses in those guys I feel like are always hurt.

1:54.1

But right now because they're they're all healthy, they're scary.

1:57.3

I'll tell you one thing. It would be a hell of a physical series. Yeah.

2:34.1

I think more physical with Philadelphia than it would be with Boston. I mean, Maxie and Edgecombe are the guys, man, that just with that youthful energy and just so very good. And then you add the veteran experience with Paul George and Joel Embed. Yeah, it's a freaking tough matchup. I mean, I, maybe I'm just this is recency bias or whatever, but as I sit here right now, I would rather have the Boston Celtics than the Sixers, but I'm picking the Knicks in the series regardless. And I think that they will be favored in the series regardless. Let's go to Ralph in Pennsylvania.

2:35.3

What's going on, Ralph?

2:36.9

Hey, good morning, guys.

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