The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

dwight howard is better than michael jordan was. people who truly understand basketball know this

— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) October 10, 2020

lol

just got a text from steve kerr

yeah no one knew how to play basketball back then

that's only because those players were still in the process of inventing it

miami calls a timeout and gets a strus floater out of it

tbh i feel embarrassed watching this series

i would love to know what the heat medical staff did to butler’s knee because he’s actually able to jump tonight

fair

Hate to say this but ... usually when a ref tells both sides to stop complaining it's a sign he might not be pitching a perfect game

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) May 28, 2022

crowd is amped tonight

Celtics give their nightly Heroes Among Us award to a woman who donated her kidney to a stranger in need named Debbie Munley and the whole arena is chanting "Debbie! Debbie!"

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) May 28, 2022

everyone still looks like they're at 50% out there

idk thought that was a pretty good half

maybe just the matchup idk everything looks extremely labored

butler is on pace for 42-18-12 and the heat are shooting nearly 50% from three but they’re only up 2

xxp people get fired up for heroes among us! i've witnessed multi-minute standing ovations.

crowd is amped tonight

Celtics give their nightly Heroes Among Us award to a woman who donated her kidney to a stranger in need named Debbie Munley and the whole arena is chanting "Debbie! Debbie!"
— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) May 28, 2022
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wasn’t this the plot of the bad art friends

i saw one the other night where two teens pulled a guy from a wrecked truck that caught fire seconds later, pretty sweet

oh shit, that could have been bad. good for those teens.

there was some sloppiness but i agree it was a pretty high level half. it’s the no 1 and no 4 defenses in the league not all that surprising it’s looking kinda ugly

i think it was just marcus smart missing a zillion shots that made me feel like everyone was playing bad

rob is fired up!

Lob williams baby

jimothy buckets doing some things

max strus more like mouthguard gross

otm

lowry doin some dirty shit from the bench, yelled in horrors’ ear on that last missed three

*horford

I'm not sure that translates exactly as "dirty shit", but certainly not, um, good sportsmanship.

literally every team does that

depends if he was at the chairs or standing right up on the line like they're allowing teams to do this year for some reason

they have been doing exactly that for many seasons

guess i just never noticed it impacting plays before

did not watch this game but is it wrong to describe it as pathetic

it was very erratically officiated but the celtics should try running an offense that doesn't result in marcus smart being their leading field goal attempter, before they go blaming the refs

i’m completely floored the heat won that game

butler looked dead for two straight games and then played about as good as you could possibly play basketball

butler got that kobe

Jimmy incredible game now Celtics gotta win a coin flip in Miami tough stuff.

Dray knew exactly what he was doing last night saying the Celtics would win. Gave them bulletin board material to force a game 7.

Jimmy Butler and Michael Jordan are the only two players in NBA playoff history with multiple 40 point, 4 steal games in a series. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/IKVzV5wZmy

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 28, 2022

to make it official ...

Most points in a playoff win, facing elimination, on road:

50: Wilt Chamberlain, PHL at BOS, 1960
47: Jimmy Butler, MIA at BOS, 2022
46: Jayson Tatum, BOS at MIL, 2022
45: LeBron James, MIA at BOS, 2012
45: Kawhi Leonard, LAC at DAL, 2021

— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) May 28, 2022

fuck bill russell

finally a good game

feels like the heat doubled tatum all game and he only found the right outlet maybe 40% of the time

jimmy was great obviously but also it’s just that shots fell for them this time, even when contested

i wouldn’t be surprised if herro’s back tomorrow. gonna be interesting.

smart had a terrible game imo

marcus seemed pretty injured, jimmy smoked him repeatedly, granted jimmy was having an amazing game overall but still

Jimmy’s knee made a miraculous recovery from G5 to G6.

miami is thee place to go for rapid recovery #heatculture

you do have to wonder how much he’ll have left in the tank. he played 46 mins… on that and 1 on horford with like 1:30 left he jumped from fully outside the lane and got all the way to the basket thru contact. idk if he can summon that level of athleticism again but maybe they put some potions in his knee or something

Gotta wonder if Jimmy’s heroics in G6 will be like his G5 heroics vs the Lakers in 2020 finals. Next game in the Lakers series, Jimmy was out of gas, scoring only 12 pts on 10 shots over 44 minutes. Hopefully he has more in the tank for G7 this year.

i went back and watched the highlights of the lebron 45 point game in boston… i forgot that he had 41 points thru 3 quarters and took his foot off the gas basically the entire fourth bcuz the heat were up by 20. the level of difficulty on the jumpers he made in that game was crazy. there were way more mickael pietrus iso defender on lebron minutes than i remembered…

Jimmy Butler's 47-9-8 has the 12th highest game score in NBA playoff history.

Butler now has 5 of the top 55 game scores in NBA playoff history, 3 from these playoffs alone.

The other two were from the 2020 NBA Finals.

Per @bball_ref https://t.co/WxfFCy2dWh pic.twitter.com/F4oDNoPldD

— Bryan Fonseca 🇵🇷 (@BryanFonsecaNY) May 28, 2022

fn crazy