D-Wade: "What is the Celtics identity It's not defense. They're not great in transition. They're not exceptionally great in the halfcourt when it comes to execution of the game, even though they have an amazing coach and players. You gotta have an identit

Windhorst Today the Boston Celtics are announcing to the world We ain't good enough to beat the Knicks Not good enough to beat them last year not good enough next year The Boston Celtics are on the verge of cracking their Championship duo because they don't think they can beat the Knicks

Haynes This was the Celtics super move and they feel really good about how they positioned themselves

Thinking Basketball I do think that the competition the Knicks have played has been subpar you could argue Atlanta was the best team they've played against the Cavs 3 or 4 possessions in a row the Knicks just get runout layups That's just an abomination of transition defense

Chris Paul says he didn't join the Heat Big 3 because D-Wade didn't want to give up 3 You was older you couldve wore 33what we going to do CP6 Nah that aint it D-Wade wants to sacrifice everything else but he aint wanna sacrifice a damn number

Dray rips Cavs defensive effort Guys don't want the challenge to fight through screens and switch every fucking time Ain't Harden's job to guard Brunson but for some of the guys switching off it is their job Nobody's doing that to Steph because we weren't gonna allow it

D-Wade rejects Cuban's claim that the 2006 finals were rigged Mark stop saying that we beat yall Everyone gets foul calls it wasn't rigged we still had to play the game Did I get a few whistles Yes but was I the only one attacking the basket every play Probably so they were fouling me