Anonymous NBA scout, coach pick the Boston Celtics over the Miami Heat in 2022 East finals

Can Boston beat the Heat in their 2020 Orlando bubble rematch?

Two out of three isn’t bad, or so the saying goes. And two out of three anonymized experts consulted for a recent article by The Athletic’s Darnell Mayberry and Josh Robbins on which of the four conference finals teams will be likely to advance picked the Boston Celtics to advance past the Miami Heat to the 2022 NBA Finals.

The devil is always in the details in such matters, and here, it involves a trio of experts consulted by the authors with the pedigree to know as well as anyone what might end up happening at this late stage of the 2022 postseason.

Mayberry and Robbins asked an NBA scout, coach, and executive which of the two Eastern Conference teams will be competing for a title, and this is what they said.