{"id":28581,"date":"2024-06-18T03:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28581"},"modified":"2024-06-18T03:27:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:27:00","slug":"nba-finals-celtics-defeat-mavericks-for-record-setting-18th-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=28581","title":{"rendered":"NBA Finals: Celtics defeat Mavericks for record-setting 18th championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Celtics are back on top.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Boston defeated the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 at TD Garden Arena on Monday to win the 2024 NBA title in five games. The result marked Boston\u2019s 18th championship, breaking a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jayson Tatum led the Celtics with 31 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds. Jaylen Brown \u2014 named NBA Finals MVP \u2014 added 21 points and 8 rebounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cBill Russell would be so proud,\u201d NBA commissioner Adam Silver said of Brown before handing him the trophy named after the late Celtics great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Luka Doncic led the Mavericks in defeat with 28 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We knew we needed each other,&#8221; Tatum said of his teammates after the win. &#8220;It&#8217;s a team sport, and we went through the ups and downs. We deserved this. We earned this.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Boston claimed the Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy thanks to one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/teams\/advanced-leaders\">greatest offenses<\/a>&nbsp;in NBA history. The Celtics \u2014 who boasted the NBA\u2019s best regular-season record at 64-18 \u2014 ranked No. 1 in the league with a 122.2 offensive rating. They were second in points per game (120.6) and rebounds per game (46.3), and they hit the most 3-pointers per game (16.5) of any team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tatum was named first team All-NBA after he put up 26.9 points, 8.1 rebounds and 4.9 assists a game this season. Jaylen Brown complemented him with averages of 23 points and 5.5 rebounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Boston\u2019s defense wasn\u2019t too shabby, either. The Celtics\u2019 110.6 rating was No. 2 in the NBA this season, and they led the league in blocked shots (6.6 a contest).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It is Boston&#8217;s first title since 2008, when it beat the Lakers in six games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Celtics big man Al Horford played in 186 postseason games before winning a title, the most in NBA history. After the win, he said the wait was worth it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;It\u2019s been long. A lot of hard work, but I\u2019m so proud to be part of this team,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t believe it. I still can\u2019t believe it. But we did it. We\u2019re here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/sports\/nba-finals-celtics-defeat-mavericks-league-best-18th-championship-rcna157266\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Celtics are back on top.&nbsp; Boston defeated the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 at TD Garden Arena on Monday to win the 2024 NBA title in five games. The result marked Boston\u2019s 18th championship, breaking a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history.&nbsp; Jayson Tatum led the Celtics with 31 points, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[29113,7452,7517,8563,29112],"class_list":["post-28581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-celtics","tag-championship","tag-defeat","tag-nba-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28583,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581\/revisions\/28583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}