Surely Benjamin Disraeli would have made an addition to his most famous quote were he around today. But the former British prime minister shed his mortal coil in 1881, some 65 years before the NBA came into existence.
Had he stuck around for last night’s epic battle between the Celtics and Cleveland, promoted by ESPN as the “Showdown in Beantown” (ugh), Big Ben would have said, “There are now four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics and the Eastern Conference standings.”
The Celts were recently the sole legal occupants of first place until the Cavaliers moved in with them on Tuesday and evicted them last night.