Can the Celtics Repeat as NBA Champions This Season?

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00:00As we look at their outlook, George, Boston entered this season as a very short favorite

00:05to win the NBA championship. They enter the playoffs not as the favorites to win the NBA

00:10title, trailing the Oklahoma City Thunder by just about 20 cents, but still a minus money

00:16odds on favorite at minus 145 to win the Eastern Conference crown. You have been following this

00:21Boston team all year long. What has the mentality been for the reigning NBA champs to hang banner

00:28number 19 at the end of this season? It's just been repeat. It's all we can do. They know

00:33they're the best team in the league. They're still underrated because they are very much

00:36aware of all the attention SGA is getting an MVP voting, all the attention the Lakers are

00:41getting since they acquired Luka Doncic, all of this and then more. And they're aware that

00:46the only way they lose this title is if they beat themselves. Injuries like we saw get close

00:50with KP last year, this time with Jason Tatum. The mentality is the same. Repeat. And within

00:56that building, the urgency is there too, because we know that second apron's coming. We know

01:00there's going to be taxes, ramifications for this Celtics team with new ownership. Drew

01:04Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis. I think this is it for this building of this Celtics team. So

01:10it's still the same thing, championship or bust. And as for game two, quick bet to give out

01:14Derek White, six plus assists. Maybe you catch him at five and a half. He's been averaging

01:18seven assists a game, literally the last month of the regular season with Jason Tatum banked

01:23up. Ball handling could be affected. Derek White is the point guard, is the initiator.

01:27He dropped 30, but I like that assist number. It's not that high for Derek White standards

01:31with Jason Tatum banged up. And he did have seven made triples in game number one, five

01:38and a half. The number right now, Georgie on the FanDuel Sportsbook and some juice on the

01:42under. So a good number for Derek White filling that void of Tatum quickly here, George, before

01:47we turn our attention to the Patriots in the NFL draft in our next segment, you see the odds

01:52for the Eastern Conference championship. And as Donnie and I have laid out all year, it's

01:56really been a tier of two. The Celtics as the two seed and the top seed in the Eastern

02:00Conference, the Cleveland Cavaliers. Do you think the Cavs can actually test Boston and

02:06a potential Eastern Conference finals matchup? Yeah, I think they can. They have the coaching.

02:11They have the big wings. They have the perimeter guys. They have the scoring. Like that's what

02:17the thing is. You can have the size and go out and get the Andre Hunter. They have the

02:20bigs. They can protect the paint. Can you score? Can you shoot? The Cavaliers can do that.

02:25Celtics in six.