Top 5 Easiest Paths to an NBA Championship

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The Casual Basketball Fan

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#celtics #nbaplayoffs #nbafinals #top5

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@TheBasketballFanatic 3 ай бұрын

Interesting you didn’t mention the 2023 Nuggets whose opp win percentage was 53% and they played two play-in teams in the last two rounds. Stop trying to put asterisks on championships man. Just say you hate the Celtics like everyone else.

@TheCasualBasketballFan 3 ай бұрын

Definitely considered them. They were my number 6 team but decided not to go with them considering how much good players they went against even with bad records; LeBron, Durant, Booker, Davis, Butler, Edwards. Sorry if it got misconstrued but I’m not trying to put an asterisk on any championship, just talking about level of difficulty. Celtics were clearly the best team this year and deserved it.

@MrSleepy613 3 ай бұрын

Easiest road ever

@wildanmalik1819 3 ай бұрын

24 celtics beating anyone in the league sorry ass mavs and denver pretenders show their biggest weakness

@Mhr6685 3 ай бұрын

There is no easy path. They still have to play 82 games to make the playoffs. Then win 3 series to make the finals and then beat the best from the other conference. None of it is easy

@AnimationDunk 3 ай бұрын

The thing is is even if it's been easy, being healthy and injury prevention is part of what being an elite athlete is. The deep roaster allowed them to not over use their star player and even if someone gets hurt, they are still a contending team. Porzingas got hurt but they still dominated. So the chip will always be deserved

@JohnStockton7459 3 ай бұрын

"Injury prevention" as if every athlete doesnt do that, its all luck who gets hurt. Look at Giannis, fittest dude alive and the most random injury ever happens non contact. Luck

@blowebassman 3 ай бұрын

The Celtics championship is a sham. They didn't face a single team at full strength. Put up the asterisk

@gardenia4882 3 ай бұрын

The celtics themselves weren't at full strength either. Cut the excuses, it's getting old. Injuries are part of sport and it's up to every team to overcome them. Not celtics fault others lack the depth to counter starters being injured. That's a them problem and doesn't diminish celtics championship in anyway.

@green_wire 3 ай бұрын

I wish they would have faced them. Believe it or not, The result would have been the same.

@darioprime 3 ай бұрын

you weren't just wrong, but damn wrong

@wholeinthesoul7925 3 ай бұрын

They can't say that Luka/Kyrie is the greatest offensive backcourt ever...AND that it was an easy path

@jamirbingham4101 3 ай бұрын

lol Tyrese in the games he played against the Celtics still lost and Donovan Mitchell went 2-1. No team was was beating this Celtics team in the east and it definitely showed against a healthy mavs team with the Celtics being the injured team.

@thanrl-yd9ub 3 ай бұрын

Context: Jrue Holliday >>> Dame Lillard

@AMNitrates 3 ай бұрын

The 2009 Lakers lol. Get out of here bro. The west was so stacked back then.

@kennykent5336 3 ай бұрын

Where are the Lakers 2020 ? First round against a poor Portland team with Lillard who missed the last game Houston with Westbrook that was back from injury And in the finals, Dragic and Adebayo get injured

@tylercampbell6272 3 ай бұрын

Dude you're really reaching. Dame's trailblazers, Houston with Harden and Westbrook, healthy Nuggets that Clippers blew a 3-1 lead to, and arguably Miami's most clutch roster. Lakers were just that good in 2020. Even the Heat blew through the Pacers, Celtics, and Bucks. Adebayo was only out for g1 and g2. I don't think you can say that 1-2 players radically shifted their chances. Lakers were the best team in the league.

@kennykent5336 3 ай бұрын

@@tylercampbell6272 Houston with Harden and Westbrook was the worst version of the Harden's Rockets, and Westbrook wasn't even 100% "Adebayo was only out for g1 and g2." wrong, he played game 1 but only 20 minutes. He didn't play game 2 and 3. Why can't i say that 1-2 players radically shifted their chances, when those 1-2 players were in 3 most important players of the team. Dragic was so good and clutch against Boston. And the fact that Adebayo didn't play those games, it's a massive impact on the result, knowing that he was the primary defender on AD, and you can be sure he wasn't near 100% when he played. If 1 or 2 players didn't change anything, it's not me that reaching but the guy who did this video, look at the Celtics run, Heat without Jimmy and Rozier, 1 or 2 players, not a big deal, Cavs without Donovan and Jarrett Allen, same and Pacers without Mathurin and Haliburton. I didn't say that the Lakers weren't the best team, every team in this top 5 were the best in the league at their time. Sorry if my vocab is bad, english is not my primary language 🙏

@DeadPoolLilCuzin1567 3 ай бұрын

U left out they had to play Jokic and Murray

@sammcdermott78 3 ай бұрын

Definitely one of the easiest runs, but I don't know if I would go for one of the 5 easiest ever. The Blazers were being called the best ever 8th seed and a lot of people had them beating the Lakers, which of course they wouldn't but to think it was just an overwhelmingly easy round for the Lakers isn't true. Then the Rockets with Harden and Westbrook were a very good team, and whilst not as good as the Rockets with Chris Paul, they still actually beat Chris Paul with OKC who was having one of his best ever postseason rounds, and they beat that OKC team without Russ as well. And then you have the Nuggets, which overcame a 3-1 deficit against the Clippers who were probably the favourites to win the championship that year, and Murray was playing out of his mind in that postseason. And then the Heat, who beat the Celtics and the Bucks to get to the finals. And you've mentioned the injuries, but the Heat won game 3 without Adebayo and Dragic, and Butler was playing out of his mind in the finals as well. And another thing to consider is the environment of the bubble, which removed the Lakers having homecourt advantage. So people always point out that the Lakers didn't play the best teams from that year, but they did play the teams that beat them, and this means that it is different to when there are majority bad teams in the League and one good team. It's one of the reasons why people shouldn't hate on this Boston run too much, the West was stacked, and all the west teams were healthy, yet Boston still demolished the best team out of the west, and considering how easily they beat the Mavs, it probably would've been the same against the Wolves or the Nuggets (potentially).

@kennykent5336 3 ай бұрын

@@sammcdermott78 I don't remember them being called the best ever 8th at all, knowing that they rarely do anything in the playoffs except for the 2019 run, they often go out in the first round. Lillard was out of the game 5, Ariza didn't come to the bubble, so defensively, with Melo, Nurkic, CJ and Lillard, they were one of the worst defensive team of all time. They barely get to the playoffs and i just check, a lot of media predict a win by the Lakers. Don't need to argue, you said it all, this Rockets team beat OKC without Russ, it tells you how bad OKC was. Despite CP3 having a great season, he was old. Nothing to say about the Nuggets, they were a very good team, not at their Prime yet, you can argue that the back to back 3-1 deficit overcome may tired them a bit but the Lakers were just better. Just because the Heat won a game without Dragic and Adebayo doesn't mean they're better without them. And if you remember correctly, Butler was tired asf in the game 5, without 2 of the 5 best players of the team, he had to do everything, you can't win like that. But i agree with your first point, one of the easiest run but maybe not in the top 5 for sure. For the Boston hate, i don't think saying that it was an easy run is hate, it's a fact. All the teams they played in the east were injured, so they came fresher than Dallas. But they still beat them with an injured Porzingis. I don't think it would have been the same against Denver, it's matchup thing, Boston has players to defend on Luka and Kyrie, or Edwards but no one can defend on Jokic, neither an aged Horford or an injured Porzingis.

@green_wire 3 ай бұрын

Who cares? They would have won anyway. I'm really sure, that no team would have beaten this Celtics squad in 7 Games.

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@TheLaundryGuy32 3 ай бұрын

Lebron had some weak ass conferences

@tylercampbell6272 3 ай бұрын

Nah, he just made it look easy.

@TheLaundryGuy32 3 ай бұрын

@@tylercampbell6272 sure. Would you argue any of those teams were actual championship threats? Any one of them would have lost against the west.

@ccjl9160 3 ай бұрын

@@tylercampbell6272 *Made it look easy because the best teams he faced were a declining Celtics team coached by legendary choke artist Doc Rivers, an overrated Bulls team, and a Toronto team that was getting swept if it ever made the finals

@wellsbr01 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, the whole bunch was playing below par. Despicably bad. Sorry for them.

@legendarytonyclutch 3 ай бұрын

That maybe your truth but your opinion can't take away the facts that those teams you named are champs 🤷🏿‍♂️

@jessuligan9333 3 ай бұрын

They won. Enough said

@Pisomojado162 3 ай бұрын

Wow i cant believe i forgot about Jonathan Simmons

@gaspi91 3 ай бұрын

Celtics won because management managed to do every right chioce. They kept JB, they got Jure for free... All of this after several blows to the team. Good front office is important can't complain if they ran laps around other teams. This is coming from their hater. Is just facts tho.