The Boston Celtics just choked away another 20-point lead to the New York Knicks to lose Game 2 of their 2025 NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals second round series at TD Garden on Wednesday (May 7) night. What is going on with the Celtics that they would lose multiple home games to a ball club the swept -- and convincingly so -- in the 2024-25 regular season?
Shooting just 35.1% from the field and a miserable 25.0% from beyond the arc, Boston inexplicably leaned hard into their 3-point shooting on a night it wasn't falling, had several lapses in focus worthy of a defending champion, used weird hacka-Mitchell Robinson decisions, and plenty more went sideways as well.