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Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

Celtics Season OVER after WILD Game 7 without Jayson Tatum

Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Boston Celtics suffer a heartbreaking first-round exit after blowing a 3-1 series lead—will this gut-wrenching loss haunt the team’s offseason moves? John Karalis of Celtics On SI recaps Game 7’s wild twists, analyzing how Jayson Tatum’s late knee injury forced Joe Mazzulla into an unconventional starting five featuring Jaylen Brown, Baylor Scheierman, Luka Garza, Ron Harper Jr., and Derrick White. Despite furious late-game runs, Boston’s supporting cast fell short, and missed opportunities sealed their fate against Joel Embiid’s resurgent Philadelphia 76ers. Major questions now surround the futures of Neemias Queta as starting center, Nikola Vucevic’s role, and the roster construction heading into next year. Karalis dissects Jaylen Brown’s post-game comments about the Celtics’ pace, the impact of fatigue on Payton Pritchard and Derrick White, and what Brad Stevens must rethink after an unexpectedly poetic season bookended by losing streaks.

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0:00.0

The Boston Celtics season is over, just like it started.

0:03.7

With three losses in a row, tough one.

0:07.5

Celtics blow it, and they're done.

0:22.2

It's a lot. Rain and Jay, how we started raising benefits, how we finish. Locked on Celtics pod, home of the women.

0:26.8

Hey, welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast.

0:32.2

I'm John Corral's here at TD Garden for the last time this season.

0:36.7

Absolutely, obviously something I did not expect to be saying at this point.

0:40.4

Did not expect to be doing a podcast here tonight.

0:43.2

Did not expect a lot of things that happened in this.

0:52.7

And so this bonus podcast is going to be ad free for everyone because I just don't know how to process this whole thing.

0:56.9

Because this, first of all, what a wild game seven.

1:04.8

One of the craziest games I've ever covered in my life from a starting lineup of Baylor Shireman, Jalen Brown, Luca Garza, Ron Harper, Derek White, to craziness with, you know, Ugo Gonzalez coming in and flying around.

1:14.8

And just one thing after another that made this just a game of wild runs, right?

1:24.8

The Celtics go down by 18 at one point. They go on a big, was it, 16 to 4 run in the

1:33.0

fourth quarter. They get it down to one. They're flying everywhere. They're playing fast.

1:41.2

And no Jason Tatum, obviously, that was a, that kind of hurt, but I don't even know how to process the no Jason Tatum thing because obviously it would have helped.

1:53.1

Would they have played this style of play with Jason here?

1:56.6

Jalen Brown after the game was talking about how this style, like he praised this style

2:01.8

play, wished that the Celtics could have gone to it a little bit more often that they would

2:05.7

have trusted it. That's something that I have to unpack. And as we go forward in this, you know,

2:13.7

first few days of podcasting when I do my full reaction podcast tomorrow, that's going to,

2:20.3

that's going to be something. I'm going to have to, like, sit there and chew on this. And what exactly

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