NBA fans make feelings clear on 'worst NBA Finals' after Boston Celtics win

[carolinakid]

The Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship in five games© Getty
NBA fans were left far from impressed as the Boston Celtics were crowned champions with a 4-1 series victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night. The Celtics beat the Mavericks 106-88 to clinch a league-high 18th NBA Championship as Dallas only managed to break 100 points in the series once, a Game 4, 122-84 win.


"Can we all agree this was the worst NBA season in a really long time?" a fan fumed on social media. "Relatively boring playoffs, quiet MVP race, All-Star weekend officially dead, Jayson Tatum superteam gets a ring, no big midseason trades, Klay shot 0/10 in an elimination game. NBA is losing its aura."

"Congratulations to the Boston Celtics on winning the NBA Title. This is by far the most boring and worst NBA postseason we've ever witnessed," another said. A third added: "This is tough to watch. Has to be the worst NBA playoffs I've ever seen. Just blowout after blowout uncompetitive games. Awful product."

Nonetheless, the Celtics and Tatum made history this week after years of coming up short. Tatum reflected on his journey with Boston and said the shortcomings of the past were worth it all in the end. "This is at the top of the mountain," Tatum told reporters after the game.

Jayson Tatum won his first NBA Championship© Getty
"To be able to say we did it, that we came together and we won a championship, banner number 18 has been hanging over our head for so many years. To know that we're going to be engraved in history, and it still hasn't like registered.

"I'm just still trying to process it all, but we did it. We won a championship. I mean, this is going to be a night that I will remember for the rest of my life from the game, the celebration, these moments.

"Over the last couple of years, we had some tough losses at home in the playoffs and we've lost the NBA championship at home in front of our fans. We had a chance to beat Miami in game six a few years ago and lost that one.

The Celtics now have 18 NBA Championships - a league high© Getty
"So to have a big win, the biggest win that you could have in front of your home crowd, I felt like that was really important to go out there and do everything in my power to make sure we won this game tonight."

On the opposing team, Luka Doncic had been listed on the injury report for every game of the series - but played all five outings in his bid to help Dallas be crowned champions. However, despite struggling with injuries, Doncic insisted there are no excuses.

"It doesn't matter if I was hurt, how much was I hurt," he said. "I was out there. Tried to play. I didn't do enough."

 

[carolinakid]

nba is just a bad product today, but the rules made it that way in today game

 

[charliebrown]

NBA offensive players are too good. That's why the blowouts

 

[carolinakid]

the rules make the offense good too, they have kill a great game imo, nobody want to watch street ball and that what the nba is today

 

[jjgold]

It was bad

 

[carolinakid]

american pro sports today have the rules set up for pt to keep fans watching but for me it not working

 

[charliebrown]

american pro sports today have the rules set up for pt to keep fans watching but for me it not working

Ya. People want to see games come down to the end. They basically let them travel

 

[carolinakid]

this is why i take the basketball across the pond any day now, once you get into that basketball and learn it, you will not go back to betting the nba

 

[thefix]

NBA has become plain awful, NHL playoffs are supremely more entertaining.

 

[carolinakid]

the all star game now sum up the nba to me, pure crap and why are they runing a great sport, in a way it like nascar what now is nothing to what is was in the 70's and 80's, give me the across the pond basketball now they play defense and you dont bet what team want to be a high lite on espn, i dont get why people bet the high profiles games in america, they are the worst to make money on.have a odd pages that will show you all the game on a given day and bet the best games not just the american stuff

 

[Jrgum3]

I don't know why but I still love the NBA. These are the best players in the world so of course there's going to be blowouts. Now this year was just a perfect storm that a lot of guys got injured and Boston made all the right moves to take their team from good to elite. I think the 2007 Finals was way worse than this year but I guess people have to bitch about the NBA. Where I live it's the complete opposite where people love the NBA because we have the Warriors to follow and they've been good up until this year. Nobody out here except for me and some of my Kentucky buddies watch college basketball from November until April they just watch during March Madness.

 

[2the9s]

Game 1 ratings were up, the overall finals ratings only went down when the games became blowouts and it was apparent the Celtics would run away with it.

Personally I think the NBA playoff product was far better this year than in some recent years. For the longest time the favored team would win every series, and I remember turning a lot of games off in years past because of one sided officiating. That didn't happen this year.