The Celtics are NBA Champions
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht, Jay King, Jared Weiss and Tim Cato break down the Celtics winning the championship in 5 games against the Dallas Mavericks. The sites and sounds from the Celtics locker room, what this title means for the Celtics and the NBA, and on the back end, what is next for the Dallas Mavericks?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm your host, Andrew Schleck. |
| 0:10.4 | This is a NBA finals edition, a championship edition for the Boston Celtics. |
| 0:17.1 | With me tonight, I've got Jay King and Jared Weiss. |
| 0:20.2 | We've got both those guys. |
| 0:21.3 | We've got Tim Cato here. Boots on the ground at the Athletic. |
| 0:25.2 | I am so excited about this episode. |
| 0:28.0 | I've been excited to do these episodes throughout the finals because we actually have people that are at these games that know these players, that know these teams so well. |
| 0:36.5 | And with Jared and Jay, two guys that |
| 0:39.3 | have covered many iterations of this Celtics team that include Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. |
| 0:45.9 | What was it like to be in the locker room for this victory celebration for the Boston Celtics? |
| 0:52.6 | Well, I literally was talking JT for the entire post game, so I definitely did some following. |
| 0:57.1 | And thankfully got the interview after like 40 tries. |
| 1:00.7 | And the thing that was so fascinating about tonight is it's like incredible pandemonium. |
| 1:07.0 | And you know like when you're watching like a movie and they try to do like the drunk vision. it's just like everything's whirling by you so fast. That's basically what it was like when you walk into the locker room and there's 500 people spraying champagne in your face. And so it was just like an incredible amount of adrenaline. And you just had to change shirts. I haven't even changed yet. Oh, you haven't changed. I had to literally like wash my face off and couldn't even open my eyes. It was so sticky. But like four hours just went by in the blink of an eye and I didn't even realize it was 2 a.m. until like a few minutes ago. And it's like this was one of the craziest things I've experienced in my life. And there was so many, there were so many like life stories passing each other by. |
| 1:48.2 | And you, |
| 1:48.7 | like you walk around a corner and you see somebody with their family having like |
| 1:53.1 | the most important moment or one of the most important moments of their life. |
| 1:55.8 | There's somebody crying. |
| 1:56.6 | There's someone laughing. |
| 1:57.9 | There's someone screaming the effort extremely loudly in front of a child. |
| 2:01.6 | There was always something fascinating and important at a significant level to that person |
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