The Celtics are a past their prime team, filled with chemistry issues as the new guard fight the old guard. 2 years ago when the Celtics won a championship, they had 3 stars in their primes, 3 very strong role players, and a young PG moving forward and looking to assert himself.
Since then, their best defensive player has lost his knees and athletic ability rendering him a shell of himself. Their best perimeter shooter has lost the consistency that used to be his hallmark, and their best all around player has aged two years, and just looks tired after trying to carry this team.
The young guys resent the old ones, and the strong role players that have left have been replaced by a 36 year old Center with man breasts who often won't run past either foul line for 5 minutes at a time. When you hear "once he plays his way into shape" 3/4 of the way through the season, it's time to accept he's not going to be playing his way into shape.
Miami won 47 games in the regular season. Boston won 50. Cleveland finished 61-21 with the best record in the league. Boston won on opening night when they still had fresh legs. Cleveland took them apart piece by piece both games after that. Boston won the 4'th game of the season when Cleveland didn't care anymore because they had 1'st locked up.
The only thing I will say is this... if you were at a park and about to play pickup (insert sports of choice here) and you had people from all sports standing around, the first pick is, and would always be Lebron James. I don't like the Cavs, I don't like Lebron, but he is something special, and he needs a championship. I am not saying it because Lebron loves basketball and is ultra competitive. His competitive nature is best demonstrated in his goal of being a global icon. People love winners. Now he proves he is one.
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