Just a few years ago, fans were consistently complaining about the lack of parity in the NBA. The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers met in four consecutive NBA Finals from 2015-2018, leading to countless talking-head discussions about whether the league had become too predictable. Well, so much for that.

The New York Knicks flattened the Celtics, 119-81, in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals and sent the Celtics home for the summer. It will be a pivotal summer for Boston, as it may have to jettison at least one of its key players to gain at least a bit of salary-cap flexibility.

Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson congratulated the New York Knicks for beating the Boston Celtics and advancing.

With the loss, the Celtics continued a long NBA playoff streak. For the seventh year in a row, the league will not have a repeat champion. This also marks another year that the defending champions will not have gotten out of the second round. The last time that it happened with in 2019.

After their elimination from the playoffs in the second round, it was reported that Boston Celtics Forward Jaylen Brown was playing through a partially torn meniscus.

Derrick White had 34 points, including seven 3-pointers, to lead the Boston Celtics to a 127-102 Game 5 win over the New York Knicks on Wednesday night that kept them alive in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

The final four is set in the 2025 NBA playoff bracket. The Oklahoma City Thunder eliminated the Denver Nuggets on Sunday in Game 7 of their second-round matchup to advance to the Western Conference finals.

All that walking has Paul Pierce in hater mode. The former Celtics legend, who had to embark on an eight-mile, 20-hour walking trip to the FS1 studios in Los Angeles after the Knicks shockingly won Game 2 in Boston,