Kendrick Perkins “praises” Boston Celtics have officially clinched the 1 seed in Eastern Conference

Kendrick Perkins “praises” Boston Celtics have officially clinched the 1 seed in Eastern Conference

The Celtics and the Hawks tonight and the Celtics going for their 10th straight win since February they’ve continue to show they are the best team in all of the land they posted a 20 and3 record since the month of February has started that is the best by any team

During that span they are the only team with 20 wins since then it makes sense they have the first win most wins because during that time the Celtics have already managed to put together an 11 game streak and now looking at their second double digit win streak perhaps

With that win tonight despite the fact that they have 11 games left they can actually secure the number one seed in the East if they win tonight and March isn’t even over so let’s go to a guy who knows what it is like to win a championship with the Celtics won

Kendrick Perkins so perk these guys are in great form they’re going to wrap this thing up any moment now so how did day approach the rest of the season and then going into the playoffs with that Championship mentality well Hannah before I even start on the Boston Celtics let me say

It brings me such joy to be on television with you right now my friend so proud of you what you you know what you been through sharing your story with everybody has been so inspiring to me and to others let me get that’s the important part let me get that out the

Way now secondly let me get to the Box the Celtics first That season don’t even start to April the 20th okay nothing the Celtics could do in the regular season could make me a Believer I got to see it in the postseason now with that being

Said we know what their starting five is going to bring to the table that’s a lot of experience you have drew holiday that didn’t won the championship you Al Horford coming in as the six-man guy we know what he’s going to bring to the table but it’s the others for me it’s

Pyton Pritchard right you look at how he’s been playing over the last couple games balling out of control right it’s Luke carnett a guy that could come in and provide depth at the big position I love what the kid Hower brings to the table so when I’m looking at the Celtics

The only question mark has been their de you want this these young fellas with no experience to have confidence going into the postseason because one of those guys are going to win a game for you every series and so if I’m the Celtics I continue throughout the course of this

Regular season to develop the conf or keep that confidence level high of those three guys in particular that I mentioned yeah we’ve seen them all have some big moments and if this team can go in healthy too like watch out uh can we talk about the bottom of the West we

Seem to be obsessed with the teams at the bottom of the Western Conference because the Warriors lost and we have the Rockets hot on their heels they are only a game behind them for that final playoff spot they won nine of their last 10 now for those of us who are aren’t

Big fans of htown as I am I’ll educate the rest of the country par on how these guys are doing it and what is special about these rockets and dangerous potentially keep hearing footsteps baby they coming like the Hy Brothers they are coming and look they have an

Identity when you think when you think about Coach eay udoka he is a hell of a coach think about the culture he set in Boston when he first took over that job and now it’s translation translating over to the Houston Rockets with this young group and you look at Jaylen green

When shanon went out J Jaylen green level of play offensively has elevated to a young Superstar status dropping multiple 40 pieces winning Western Conference player of the week they have an identity when you look at a leader like Dylan Brooks who’s going to bring that tenacity Fred Van vet Championship

Experience the Rockets are coming and they are serious and the Golden State Warriors know that they know that the Rockets are serious Draymond Green can say whatever he want to say but the Rockets are standing on business right now and I’m another person that’s always

Rooting for H time yeah I mean how about the Cougars last night that was a huge win for them you know people didn’t have expectations about the Texans we saw what happened there so so let’s go I know I know you and I we’re seeing eye to eye here all

Right thanks my friend thank you Rockets Footsteps in the dark and the light uh still to come Jets head coach Robert Salah weighing in on Aaron Rogers and the sense of urgency his team must have next season Bears GM Ryan poles talks for the first time about the decision to

Trade Justin Fields And if you’re betting on Boston why the numbers say you should go with the Celtics right out of the gate tonight we should all feel like we got to do a little bit more cuz we didn’t win I want to get over that hump I want

To get back to the finals been so close to these last two years that want to do whatever it Takes the you know we’re the best team in the league so winning takes care of everything yeah the Celtics have been doing doing a whole lot of winning they’re going for 10 straight wins tonight and our betting expert Aaron Dolan is here with the NBA trends that

You need to know so what are your top three batting trends that we need to pay attention to well let’s start off with the Boston Celtics in the first half they’ve been absolutely crushing the number 52 18-1 against the spread in the first half this season by far the best

Mark in the league an absolute Cash Cow for betters they’ve also covered nine of their last 10 first half spreads tonight they’re facing the Atlanta Hawks and interestingly enough the spread was opened – 7 and a half now down down to minus 6 and2 elsewhere in Denver they’re

4526 against the number in the first quarter they take on the Memphis Grizzlies tonight at home and they’re laying five and a half points in the opening frame I love these bets first quarter bets you get in you get out and if you lose you know what you have the

Rest of the game to recoup from that all right lastly look at the Houston Rockets they’ve been great at covering the number in the last 10 games they’ve covered nine of 10 while also winning nine of those 10 games on an eight game win streak which is pretty surprising they’re playing the Portland

Trailblazers tonight they’re laying 12 and a half points this is the largest role that we’ve seen the Houston Rockets as a favorite so far this season which is probably indicative to how bad the Portland Trailblazers have been but those are three top trends all right uh

Download the ESPN BET app today and have some fun Aaron Dolan thank you so much sat tipping off Thursday and if you picked all the one and the two seeds to make it to this round you are in luck it’s just the fifth time since seeding

Began in 1979 that every one and two seed has actually Advanced to the Sweet 16 four ACC teams will be featured in The Sweet 16 as North Carolina Clemson Duke andc State have all advanced no conference has more teams in this round than the ACC staying with the ACC NC

State will face off against Marquette as the only double- digigit team remaining this will be the second NCA tournament matchup between the schools and the first since the 1974 national championship game and we’ll get a rematch of last year’s national title game Yukon takes on number five San

Diego State on Thursday of the three previous times that rematch has happened in the tournament the reigning champ has won to of course a guy who saw all this coming was Seth Greenberg here ahead of the sweet 16 so Seth you like Second Chances right oh I love Second Chances

You you didn’t like my bracket no I like I like your brackets okay uh before uh everybody else gets a chance to fill out a second chance bracket okay so before they do that I want you to pay attention to Uncle Seth here who is going to tell

Us and we’re going to start in the East with your very favorite team of all time Yukon yeah Yukon San Diego State is terrific match up Yukon offensively they are as complete and balanced as any team in the country defensively they absolutely take you out of what you want

To do so I got the con advancing in that matchup no surprise there Illinois Iowa State this is a really hard pick because Iowa state is a dynamic defensive team they force a turnover 26% of their possessions Illinois plays without a point guard but they’ve got teren Shannon teren Shannon’s averaging 32

Points a game in the NCAA tournament I got Illinois with a little bit of an upset over Iowa State and we go down here North Carolina Alabama Alabama 46% of their shots come from three-point line North Carolina if you overh help Alabama wins this game but if you saw

The defense that North Carolina played against Michigan State the last 30 minutes of the game you saw a disciplined aggressive tough defense I think North Carolina can advance in this game right here and then you’ve got Clemson in Arizona I’m going to pull the upset I’m going with Clemson they’re defending

Right now life is good at Clemson they are doing a great job now let’s go to the other side of the bracket right here all right you got Houston and oh here we go Seth this is I know you’re not going to lie you you don’t have a winner here

What’s happen du they compete offensively and the officials the officials call fouls like 45 free throws is what the other night Texas M shot I got Duke upsetting winning that game Marquette NC State Tyler kak 13-1 in the last 14 games he plays he’s a left-handed Steve Nash I think it’s just

Too much for Marquette right there I think Marquette advances Purdue Gonzaga Zach e but the most important player is Braden Smith Braden Smith if he’s healthy he runs the show for Purdue we got them advancing and then finally kraton Tennessee kraton has four terrific starters Tennessee has better

Depth I think their defense runs Craton off the three-point line owns a Tempo to game and I have Tennessee winning there so okay can can we go back can we go back to this for a second you’re torn right here you have a problem four players F out last night in

This game I mean do you think that Duke defensively has what it takes potentially to stop the cougar Duke was terrific defensively yesterday against James Madison the most important thing Duke you got to rebound the ball you got to compete offensively don’t settle for jump shots Drive the ball these guys

Will foul you if Duke goes to the line 45 times they’re winning that game okay well that’s you torn is is is I got a question are you torn on this one you invested in Duke but you’re really down deep e e e e e e e e e e e

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