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It was Brown who won the MVP finals award, not Tatum. However, I think that award should have gone to Tatum. After all, if we compare the stats of these two guys in the finals series, Tatum was a little more productive and useful than Brown. Honestly, it isn't clear what exactly the organizers were guided by when choosing the MVP of the finals.

I'm happy for him to see that he finally got a ring. I'm eyeing for Luka to have his first but then, they fell short and this isn't the time for him to have one. Well, while watching the awarding ceremony, I was expecting Tatum to win the finals MVP but it's still Jaylen Brown that has got it. He's got the conference finals MVP and then the NBA finals MVP, what a player. After analyzing the games that they've got, I guess that Brown deserves to have that because of how he impacted all of the finals games of the Boston Celtics.

The news about him that he's signing for the Bahamas national team, I don't know if that's going to be allowed if he's already played for the Team USA before. There's still a lot of time for him to do what he's gotta do and I guess that he's just do it for his purpose before he finally retires as he's got a lot of rings already.

Jayson Tatum seemed destined to win one, but it was looking pretty grim for a while there in the East. I’m glad they were able to jump at their chance with Embiid and Giannis injured. Glad BROWN won himself an MVP, he deserved it with the way he played. After game 1 it was looking like Porzingis was the difference maker.

Yes, finally, post-era of Pierce, KG and Rondo and Ray Allen, now we have, Tatum and Brown to lead the Celtics and the missing pieces the unicorn and Drew Holiday (thanks to Bucks for letting him go just to get Dame time). Dallas has no answer whatsoever to the offense of Celtics in Game 5. The sad part is that it's going to be months again, that we will have to wait before the next season begins. And for sure we will see some big movements already. Klay Thompson might be the biggest catch as he already shows intention to test the free market agency, also another big name is Donovan Mitchell. Anyway, congratulations to the Celtics for winning another NBA championship and another will be hang in the Boston Garden.

They have, they wouldn't reach the West finals if they don't have players that have caliber. But the problem here is that the Celtics were able to take away that, Lively and Gafford, there we no alley-oop passes to them, PJ Washington's 3 point was missing here in this series.

While the Celtics has defensive stoppers and then have the best duo Tatum and Brown to take the load of the scoring and they do played good defensively that's why Luka had a hard time in either against them if they are guarded. So congrats to Boston, that question is, will we see a new era and dynasty for the Celtics?

Just for context, Jayson Tatum is the first player in NBA history who leads the team in Points, Rebounds and Assists in the whole NBA Finals series, won the NBA title, but didn't won the Finals MVP. He literally got robbed that's for sure. As for the contest, unfortunately, you didn't win. There's always be a next time anyways. 

Anyway, I guess the first 2 games of Tatum in the NBA Finals also affected his place in the Finals MVP race. Tatum might have better performance on the final 3 games, but Brown has been a consistent scorer for the team the whole time hence, that might be one reason as to why he won the Finals MVP. I'm not a hater of Brown, but I don't like him because he doesn't know how to dribble on his left hand. He got that very huge contract, and now he got a title + a Finals MVP on his career. Definitely worth a respect from me.

Well, congratulations to the Celtics. The regular season is over, the playoffs are over, but the DRAMA around the league isn't over and it will not be over until it's over.

There you go, finally, Tatum got his first ring, as well as Porzingis, Brown, Horford, White, etc. The problem with Dallas is they don't have as many players or options as Boston that could be lethal. They only have Luka and Irving; the others aren't as effective compared to the players of Boston. Now, I wonder, what if Boston faced the Wolves or the Nuggets? Maybe it would have been a different story. Anyway, congrats to the Celtics.

It's official, the Celtics are the champs for the 2023-2024 season. Dominated the Mavericks the whole way and won the championship in front of their home crowd. Congrat's on the win!!!

And there you have it. There's the real game of the Celtics. Some insisted that game 4 was a legit Dallas victory. Well, there's another game to refute that. Every Celtic can dribble, drive, and carry that ball to the basket and make some scores. As to the Mavericks, well, there are only two. The rest can only wait for that pass from afar and make that shot.

The TD Garden deserves this. The Celtics fans deserve a championship victory right in front of them. That has long been elusive. It's long overdue.

I'm surprised no one is talking about who will gonna win the NBA Finals MVP. it's obvious that Celtics will close the series tonight but no one knows between Tatum and Jalen Green gonna win the MVP finals. But if you ask me who will the win the Finals MVP, for me I think it's Jayson Tatum because of what his doing right now (game 5). If Tatum wins the Finals MVP I also win in contest in our Local Board (Pilipinas). 🤣

The hell Jalen Brown wins the Finals MVP

The Celtics are very close to ending the series. Tatum didn't start the first quarter well, but the second quarter he was on fire. They used the paint very well, and they also made accurate 3-pointers. Everything is going as it should for the Celtics. The Mavs didn't do anything right. They can raise the flag of surrender early. Dončić's battery looks dead, Kyrie can't do anything. They got 3 three-point contributions from the bench, but nothing else. At one point the Mavs closed the gap when Mazzulla switched to a 5 short players lineup, but the Celtics played last minutes as well in the second quarter as they did in the first. I don't think the 21-point lead will be closed. Only 24 minutes left for the Celtics to win another championship.

Pritchard with that long 3 to closed out the first half as the Celtics established a big lead, 67-46. I think there's no stopping Boston now from claiming another NBA championship this season. Everything is falling for them in the first two quarters.

Of course, the Mavs can make a comeback, but Luka and Kyrie as struggling, and they have a lot of turnovers already as compare to Boston wherein there are a lot of players contributing like Horford who might taste his first championship after being in the league for so many years and then Holiday, his second and thanks to the Bucks for letting him go and it was a blessing in disguise for him.

I don't like what's happening, first half is done and there's 21 points lead (67-46) in favor of the Boston Celtics. Well, we probably know where this is going. Luka don't look like doing a lot this time, got 9 points only for this half time. Kyrie Irving got 5 points. Jones Jr. has got 10 points.
Boys, I don't know if they're going to full blast for the last two remaining quarters but they have to do something. Anyway, I'm just ready to see how this game ends and might advance the greetings for the Celtics here.

Celtics are a good Team especially with kristaps on the floor.  But I think without him on the floor they are completely beatable.  Dallas has no one to cover kristaps.  If Dallas can somehow squeak out a win in Boston they head back to Dallas with a chance to lock up the series.  That's how quickly series can change.  It's a long shot but I think Dallas has shot to win tonight.

Yes, experience wise, they need someone like Klay.

But we will never know if they're going to be a chemistry since there have been players that think they're enough for the team and think no need for any addition.

Eventually, they're going to be able to get along together and make their own history. Let's wait for that news and announcement soon.

And a few hours from now, we're on game 5 for this NBA finals.

I think it was meant to be and everybody should be happy about it. Doncic carried his team all the way here, he prevented the sweep in the finals. But there was nothing more he could do, because this Boston team has been the best team in years. They showed in the regular season that they were the favorites, they lost only 2 games and made it to the finals while the strong teams in the West were beating each other. Most importantly, they managed to stay healthy, except for Porzingis. Having a star like Horford on the team made up for that loss. I think they have a super 8-man main rotation. They are the most deserving champions. I expect them to close out the series tonight.

I’m a little bit sad today. Feels gloomy knowing that it is likely the last day of the NBA season. Sure, there will be offseason drama to keep us going, but no basketball for a while. I wouldn’t mind seeing Dallas extend the series a little longer, but my money is on Boston ending things at home tonight.

For sure he is very humble because it is only 1 game win and he will surely not give a hint if they have seen a weakness in the Boston Celtics or if it is because of Kristaps Porziņģis absence They will never say that way as the game is still crucial anything can still happen the Mavericks may have won the 4th game dominantly but it doesn't mean they already won it all for sure he is still keeping it to himself he doesn't want to spoil the game for sure.


Great observation of what the Boston Celtics are doing I have noticed that they are like a different team I don't really consider that it is all because Kristaps Porziņģis was not on the team but the Dallas Mavericks are getting fired up and Dereck Lively II was doing great in the paint area he is saving so much with the rebound and making great defense while Luka Doncic was even active with chasing the defense and the ball it was really a team play and so the Boston Celtics might give this game for them to be ready in the next one, I guess only Boston Fans are thinking that this game final was rigged.


We will definitely see it in tomorrow's game it will be a banger of a game as the Boston Celtics had a taste of what the Mavericks can do they will surely have to play even tighter and not a single error is needed on this game I really don't know if this is because of not having Porziņģis or something else, while the Mavericks got Lively on their side just for a change getting those defense ongoing in the part of the Mavericks.

That is the very definition of sports though, I mean the Dallas team just needed one game to get themselves going in this series. And so they got that in game 4 and you can hear post game interview that Luka believed that they can make it and become history.


For sure, but they will have to take it even in American America, if they losses this one obviously they will have to go back to Dallas again and try to win that game. I would agree that the confetti is already in the Boston Garden already but they will have to go for another tough game here.

This is due to the influence of the current result. People beliefs can be easily confused based on the recent results and not the overall game progress. There’s a lot of Dallas fan out there that’s why those who already lost their hope comes back again to support since Dallas already show a sign of revival although the possibility of reverse sweep is very low since they are against Boston.

Dallas only chance to get this done is when Boston once again choke while they become consistent especially Gafford on dominating the paint. Boston weakness on game 5 is lack of rebounds that’s why they have less 2nd chance points compared to Dallas.