Do Boston Celtics WANT Sixers or Magic? | Examining Path to NBA FINALS

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Celtics are waiting for their first round opponent. Should they hope Philadelphia or Orlando wins? John Karalis of Celtics on SI and Tom Westerholm of Boston.com both agree on the opponent, and some of the reasons are a little outside the box. Plus, the Celtics path to the NBA Finals looks pretty good right now. We examine what can go right and lead them to the promised land, and what can go wrong and leave them short.

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0:00.0	Now on the Locked-on Celtics podcast, my unconventional reasoning why I want the Celtics to play the Sixers in the first round.
0:06.8	Plus, we chart a path to the finals.
0:13.3	Hey, welcome back to the show.
0:15.1	I am John Corrales.
0:16.2	Today, we're looking ahead to the Boston Celtics path in the second and third segments.
0:20.9	We're going to look at their path to the finals.
0:23.0	What could go right?
0:24.0	What could go wrong?
0:25.1	Just kind of charting the path.
0:28.2	But we're going to start with the Philadelphia 76ers versus the Orlando Magic.
0:33.4	This is the Wednesday podcast, Wednesday night.
0:37.0	The Sixers and the Magic play each other to decide, I'm not, I'm leaving that in, to decide who will play the Boston Celtics.
0:48.7	And we will decide who we want.
0:51.9	And that's me and Tom Westerholm what's up tom introduce yourself to the end of
0:59.2	your bench here and uh let me get some free will you meet the end come meet the end of our bench
1:04.8	classic it's me it's me the end of the bench the end of the bench everybody yeah it's the bench. Everybody, yeah, classic Joe Mazzula.
1:12.9	Another classic Joe Mazzula moment.
1:15.2	He never stops. They never stops dropping pure classics.
1:18.8	He's the best. He's so funny.
1:21.8	And he could be coaching in another NBA finals, which is, would be the third time in four seasons
1:30.8	that he would do that if he can get there.
1:33.1	Is that right?
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