Heat vs. Celtics: A Playoff Trilogy Unlike Any Other

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🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Boston Celtics have looked like one of the best teams in the NBA all season, and they’re just one series win away from having a shot at proving it. But first, they’ll need to get past the Miami Heat, who have been playing out of their minds all postseason thanks to some legendary performances from Jimmy Butler. The Heat snuck into the playoffs as the 8th seed, and promptly stunned the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in just five games. They followed that up with a six-game dismantling of the New York Knicks to secure a rubber match with the Celtics, with Miami winning the first ECF meeting in the bubble in 2020 and the Celtics advancing in 2022. Can Miami prevail once again? Or does Boston have too much to prove? Tim Bontemps helps us find that out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tim Bond temps, the Eastern Conference Finals start tonight between the Miami Heat and
0:05.0	the Boston Celtics.
0:06.6	And this series kind of feels like a reboot of a reboot, doesn't it?
0:10.3	Well, it's because it is a reboot of a reboot.
0:13.2	It's the third time in four years that these teams have played, including last season.
0:20.5	Al Hormford with the rebound, throws it up in the air, and the Boston Celtics will go
0:25.7	to the NBA Finals.
0:28.9	They complete in-wire to-wire victory on Miami's home court.
0:35.9	Feels like the millionth time over the past, you know, 10 or 15 years that we've seen,
0:40.5	the Celtics and Heat go ahead to head.
0:42.2	And with eight seconds and counting to go, the Miami Heat are going to be Eastern Conference
0:46.6	Champions, the buzzer sounds, the heat, the five seed in the East, go into the NBA Finals,
0:53.7	knocking out Boston in six games.
0:56.3	It must become one of the real iconic rivalries in the league.
0:59.5	You go back to obviously the KG Paul Pierce, Doc Rivers, teams going up against the big
1:05.6	three in Air Expo Strad.
1:07.3	Now, you've, again, we're talking about the third iteration of Jason Tatum and
1:11.6	Jalen Brown and Marcus Smart against Bam out of bio and Jimmy Butler and Air Expo
1:17.8	Strad.
1:18.8	I mean, there's a ton of history here, two proud organizations with a ton of equity,
1:25.4	winning tradition, sustained excellence over a long period of time.
1:29.3	And, you know, certainly been a winding road for the Miami Heat this year to get back
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