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It wouldn’t have been any different had the Wizards won, by the way, although John Adidas Evander Kane Authentic Jersey Wall is a bigger potential X-factor than anybody on the Celtics roster. The truth was that the winner of this series, no matter which team it was, was going to be rewarded with the opportunity to be flattened by a far superior Cavaliers team. 'You ever hear of manslaughter?': Popovich rips Warriors over Leonard injury Read more In the NBA, it’s all about the last team standing, which means a series like the one the Celtics and the Wizards just had, will most likely be forgotten, overshadowed by whatever is to come. This would be a shame. After consecutive series sweeps by the Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors there was a growing sense that this postseason would mostly consist of biding time until the Finals. The Celtics and Wizards managed to find a way to keep things interesting, mostly by keeping things weird.

The Celtics won the first two games of the series, despite falling behind by double-digits early in both cases. The Wizards then utterly humiliated the Celtics in the next two games, leading to a tied series that really felt like one team should have swept the other. Perhaps, it was this frustration that led to Washington’s Kelly Oubre Jr earning himself a Game 4 suspension after going after Kelly Olynyk in what has to be the first http://www.authenticbuffalosabres.com/authentic-gilbert-perreault-jersey instance of Kelly-on-Kelly violence in NBA historyGiven all of this bad blood, it was probably a bad idea for the Celtics to wear all-black into Game 6. Yes, the Celtics were a game away from burying the Wizards after pulling off an effortless 123-101 win in Game 5, but they were just inviting bad karma by dressing for the Wizards’ “funeral” at Verizon Center, particularly since they had yet to win a road game in the series. In the end, the Celtics managed to let a 5 point lead slip away in the game’s final seconds as John Wall hit the biggest shot of his career, a stunning three-pointer that sealed a 92-91 victory which forced a GameAnd just because there wasn’t enough controversy heading into Game 7, it came out that the Celtics were robbed of 1.8 seconds during their final, futile possession of Game 6. Of course, after that game’s funeral stunt, it kind of felt like Boston was inviting that sort of bad luck. Advertisement In any case they would get the best kind of revenge in Game 7, which ended the only way this surreal http://www.authenticsandiegopadres.com/Randy-Jones-Jersey series could: with Kelly Olynyk, the most hated man in Washington other than You-Know-Who, outscoring the Wizards bench 26-5, with 14 of those points coming in the fourth quarter. Thanks to his out-of-nowhere performance, the Celtics advanced to the Eastern Conference playoffs a day before the NBA Draft Lottery, where they have the best chance of landing the No1 pick. None of this, it probably should be emphasized, is how things are supposed to go. The Wizards-Celtics had a downright Lynchian ending: it made no logical sense and, in retrospect, seems preposterous and silly, yet as it all came together it felt strangely inevitable. After all, this was a series that followed its own internal logic, something we desperately needed while the rest of the NBA playoff picture was falling into place in the most predictable manner possible. Of course this was how it was going to end, with Kelly freaking Olynyk channeling his inner Jordan. We won’t have long to enjoy this break in normality as the Eastern Conference Finals start on Wednesday and Cleveland will most likely remind us all what the status quo is Authentic Rickey Henderson Youth Jersey in the NBA. Despite the fact that they will have home court advantage, the Celtics have little shot at beating a fully rested Cavaliers team. No matter, even if they end up getting swept, which might actually be the most likely scenario here, the Celtics should have no regrets about how their season ended

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