Adam Silver should be asking what was said in that timeout…
"Erik Spoelstra called a timeout with a 1:30 left down by 16, 30 seconds later that play happens… that looked shady to me."
Brian Scalabrine reacts to Caleb Martin's foul on Jayson Tatum pic.twitter.com/XRchYpbOVh
— Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) April 21, 2024
by Kshpew
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Why? You’re opening a can of worms if you want the league investigating what’s said in timeouts.
Seriously, If Erik insinuated in any way that his players should be trying to hurt anyone then he should be suspended for the rest of the playoffs. Completely gross “Heat culture”.
Wild take by you and Scal. Heat are a physical team that straddle the line between physical and reckless but I highly doubt Spo called a timeout and said let’s hip check someone so they crack their skull open.
Scal got JT’s back on this one.
Big stretch by scal, gonna need a lot more proof for an allegation like that
This is a huge reach
Wasn’t Martin mic’d up?
Man this is weak. If this was the other way around you would be applauding a Celtics player for being physical, and rationalizing it with something like “it crossed a line, but X player will think twice about doing Y next time.”
There’s certainly precedent! https://twitter.com/KnicksFanTv/status/1655746849519575042
100% agree. That was the kind of shit basketball miami plays. Fuck those guys.
now we gotta sweep them in 4 just like they fucking sweep the leg.
losers.
so lame.
Gotta say being a fan of all the Boston sports teams and being in all their subs, celts fans take the cake who’s the whiniest of the group.
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Bro at this point you gotta just bring a third stringer off the bench and have him deck Martin straight up, dirty ass fraud chucker for this dirty ass Heat team
I don’t think Spo told him to do it. This is just typical dirty Heat basketball. Shit team. Shit franchise doing whatever they can to bring others down to their level. Garbage sports city
he was running at full speed trying to hip check Tatum and they say it was clean because Holiday’s hands grazed Martin as he was going by
reminds of this wonder if Riley is still thinking of it as well [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNWBfs7v_tY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNWBfs7v_tY)
This should be all on Caleb, let’s not start any conspiracy theories here….
Spoelstra ordered the code red!
Love that, haha
The Heat have an injury bounty program.
He was going after that bounty.
Wish fighting was part of basketball like in hockey.
I was just glad to see JB step in and say something. Good to see him stand up for JT
How about a light special on a flagrant 2 and a fake suspension.
I wouldn’t be upset if Oshae Brissett accidentally beat the shit out of Caleb Martin.
I’m not sure why Eddie had to talk about it like it was the Celtics fault this happened. Sure they didn’t keep the lead where they’d be comfortable having Tatum out at that point but that’s not their fault Martin played the game like a dirt bag.
Glad to see Scal wasn’t holding back.
Jrue pushed him, if you watch the replay in slow motion.
Just as a casual observer, are you guys pretending Olynyk didn’t pull Kevin Love’s arm out of the socket in the ECF?
Nbs Boston posting this is crazy
Scal is speaking facts here. That’s a dirty play, period. League should definitely be suspending Martin but you know they won’t
Kristaps called it
It’s a set of lying eyes that tells you this wasn’t purposeful. Caleb martin is a piece of shit. I will sail into the pit of a volcano defending my guys. Fuck biggie, fuck mob deep, fuck spoelstra, and fuck everybody else
I mean Tatum jumped like half a second before Martin ran into him, it was a stupid reckless play with a minute left but he definitely didn’t intend what actually played out to happen, is it dirty yea a little, but no where near as dirty as him running over KP in the first quarter just to knock him down.
Did yall see Jrue pushing Caleb into JT , the same play
Props to JT for shaking it off, not risking getting himself suspended over caleb martins punk ass, and shooting his free throws unfazed. That easily could have been brawl that could have lead to multiple players missing games if he reacted differently.
So you are telling me they drew up a play where Bam would miss a shot. Then Tatum would go for the rebound and they would take him out mid air.
Man, I can’t wait for the sweep to put them out of their misery. Good riddance.
Spo wouldn’t do that and it makes us look stupid to imply he did
Fuuuuuuuuk The Heat bunch of kants!!! Duncan’s from Maine, don’t come back kid!
“Sweep the leg, Johny” – Eric Spoelstra