Tag: 2021 first round

WATCH: Do the Boston Celtics have any chance to beat the Brooklyn Nets in the first round?

The odds are stacked against Boston — but do they have any shot at all?

The Boston Celtics limped into the seventh seed — in some cases, literally — as a season full of injuries, COVID and bad luck knocked their title aspirations down a couple of notches. They get the dubious honor of facing one of the league’s most dangerous clubs in the postseason, with one of the best scoring lineups ever assembled.

Down All-Star wing Jaylen Brown, and operating with a hobbled Rob Williams III (if he can even play at all), the Celtics kick off their series with the Nets this Saturday. Can they hope to steal a game? Is winning the series entirely off the table?

The hosts of the CLNS Media semi-eponymous “Ryan and Goodman” podcast Bob and Jeff, respectively, do their best to answer these questions ahead of the series’ tipoff this weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZqCT2bAKE

Watch the video embedded above to get their take at what’s at stake in this series, and how hard of a row to hoe Boston has if it wants to win some games.

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Boston Celtics first-round series with Brooklyn Nets kicks off Saturday at Barclays Center

If the NBA continues the every-other-day schedule used in the Orlando bubble, the rest of the schedule apart from tipoffs can be inferred as well.

The Boston Celtics clinched the Eastern Conference’s seventh seed with their 118 – 100 blowout of the Washington Wizards in Tuesday night’s play-in tournament game, and with it, the honor of facing a formidable challenge in the Brooklyn Nets.

While the full schedule has yet to be released, we do know that the first game of the series will kick off this weekend with Game 1 scheduled for Saturday, May 22 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, with the game to take place at Barclays Center given the Nets have home court with the upper seed. And with the format for the postseason after the play-in tournament unchanged, we can extrapolate the remainder of the dates of the first round.

In normal seasons, playoff games are always separated by at least a day and sometimes two between games, but this model was condensed to every other day in the so-called Orlando bubble due to the pandemic and the constraints created by the hiatus and honoring broadcast deals.