On the road to an NBA title in 2024, the Boston Celtics made basketball look easy. The squad needed just five games to dispatch the Miami Heat in the first round, five to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the conference semifinals, four to sweep the Indiana Pacers in the conference finals, and five to top the Dallas Mavericks in the Finals. The Celtics appear to have no illusions about how difficult it will be to follow up their championship.
Boston coach Joe Mazzulla said as such in a dramatic quote from a forthcoming episode of the Locked On Celtics podcast, teased in a clip on Wednesday.
