Doing It Wit Defense

Shank will now have to take a week or two to take that annual dump on the Celtics:

The Celtics wore out the great Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks, and they did it with defense

The Bruins’ season ended Saturday. The Red Sox season feels like it ended in April. The Patriots offseason has been wildly underwhelming.

It was left to the Men in Green to keep things interesting around here and the Celtics did not disappoint Sunday, with a 109-81 Game 7 victory over the reigning NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks. Veterans Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Marcus Smart will take their talents to South Beach for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Tuesday night at FTX Arena.

A raucous Causeway Street crowd chanted “Beat the Heat!” in the closing seconds of the first rout of the series.