Saturday’s beatdown of the New York Knicks was in all probability probably the most I’ve laughed whereas watching a Boston Celtics recreation all season. Nicely, perhaps not as a lot as I did on ring evening, which was additionally in opposition to the Knicks.
The Knicks, by the best way, have been the staff that many felt had put themselves on the Celtics’ stage over the summer season after they acquired Karl-Anthony Cities and Mikal Bridges.
New York has now performed and been humiliated by the reigning champions twice.
It was evident proper from the very first bucket of the evening that it was going to be Boston’s recreation, regardless of being with out each Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Vacation.
Jayson Tatum’s loud dunk over Treasured Achiuwa accounted for the primary two of his 40 factors at Madison Sq. “Backyard.”
The Knicks have been in shambles making an attempt to cease Boston’s celebrity ahead. He lit them up from nearly all over the place on the ground and went nuclear on the most vital a part of the sport — the third quarter. New York had lower the Celtics’ lead down to only three in that body after which Tatum and Derrick White determined that they’d seen sufficient.
I imply, have a look at this.
Tatum meticulously attacked Mikal Bridges (5 first-rounders, btw) or whichever Knick had the misfortune of making an attempt to test him. He made 5 straight photographs within the closing minutes of the interval and completely broke the Knicks and their followers.
The Tatum/White combo mixed to attain 33 factors within the quarter, serving to Boston enhance the distinction again to twenty factors heading into the fourth.
The Celtics comfortably closed this one out behind a powerful ultimate stint from Payton Pritchard. After serving to the staff construct their preliminary lead within the first half with 14 second-quarter factors, he basically gave the Knicks a replay of the entire thing within the fourth. Pritchard iced the sport by sinking 4 of his 5 makes an attempt en path to 11 fourth-quarter factors.
In fact, there was this laugher, which served because the knockout blow.
By the top of the evening, New York followers have been booing, Celtics followers have been making themselves heard, and any semblance of confidence had been ripped away from the Knicks.
Oh, and Grimace is formally a Bostonian.
“Do you imply the McDonald’s mascot?”
Sure, I imply the McDonald’s mascot.
The identical individuals who would’ve had a championship parade (Bing Bong) on Saturday out within the snowstorm, had their Knicks crushed the Celtics, have adopted the purple monster as their very own after he helped the Mets flip round their 2024 season.
Grimace threw out the primary pitch at Citi Area on June 12. As much as that time, the Mets had been underwhelming, to say the least. Then, abruptly, they have been profitable video games and ultimately received their solution to the Nationwide League Championship Sequence.
Individuals went loopy over Grimace. There have been Grimace costumes within the stands, on the subways, and there was even a Grimace seat devoted at Citi Area.
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Quick ahead to earlier this week, when McDonald’s started selling their annual limited-time providing of the “Shamrock Shake.” This yr, they determined to convey again Grimace’s supposed uncle, “Uncle O’Grimacey.”
Apparently, O’Grimacey was a daily in McDonald’s adverts again within the day, however I’d by no means seen nor heard of him earlier than he popped up on my Twitter/X timeline this week.
O’Grimacey’s emergence couldn’t actually come at a greater time. He was the proper commerce deadline acquisition for the Celtics and it guidelines that there’s an Irish/Celtics themed model of the adopted New York mascot.
It’s an actual disgrace that Grimace rides with the Cs now.
Bing bong.
