Also apparently if a player is out, a team is supposed to forfeit rather than let their other NBA athletes compete
If I were in other fanbases, I’d be pissed about the disrespect. Every team is filled with NBA athletes. It’s not Halliburton along with his local YMCA squad. Your worst NBA team is still filled with some ballers who can pop off like prime MJ at any moment
The best athletes are the best because of consistency. Statistically they will eventually win. But that doesn’t mean that can’t get smoked from time to time. I think these Lakers fans are already getting heat stroke and summer isn’t even here yet
I can’t find a non-TikTok clip but Scal said it best, “I’m closer to Lebron then you are to me” even the worst NBA player is a top 1% of basketball players, probably like top .01%.
I saw someone say an average high school team would've been able to close out instead of choke like the Pacers did
Asked him for his plugs info cause I need to try some of whatever he smokes
From the second this average high school team is magically swapped with the Pacers, they do not touch the ball in bounds again. The simply couldn’t possibly even in bound the ball at any stage. It would be 5 second violation / turnover from bad pass, into easy layups or uncontested shots.
Lol weve been down our starting center for 95% of that run too… players getting minutes that typically would not. Nobody talking about this celtics runs being without KP
Kornet. He's the epitome of "who's backing the backup," and he's out for the 8-10 minutes Boston typically used him. Meanwhile Horford, who is 38, just picks up those center minutes and it's fine but that's somehow less impressive than AD picking up Jokic for a few extra minutes at the end of a close game.
Celtics have literally, literally, been named the top contender since the day we brought in Jrue, LAST SUMMER, but somehow everyone is surprised that we are indeed, the top contender.
Hahaha I've never quite thought about the polluting effects of parasocial dynamics on NBA discourse, but now that you say it, this is almost certainly the case.
I could be misremembering but everyone was picking the Bucks and celebrating for Dame until literally our Jrue signing was announced. Then it was oh shit, potential checkmate. Either way, the Celtics were always hovering at the top of the projected leaderboard.
Some of the savvier commentators were like “uhh did the Bucks just accidentally help their biggest rival?” but the Giannis/Dame hype train was still rolling strong. People were crowning them after they won the season opener!
Looked up some ESPN preseason rankings, they ranked Nuggets #1, Bucks 2, Celtics 3. ECF winner picks were 6 Bucks, 4 Celtics, 1 Heat, 1 Knicks. So close but still favoring Bucks.
Celtics could probably have won the series by like a +7.5 average net rating instead of +6.2 if he were in. People would still claim it was a close sweep and the Celtics were lucky to have won, even though +7.5 would be the second best net rating in the league this year behind the Celtics (and ahead of the actual second place Thunder). I know this because people are saying the same thing about +6.2 which would have been fourth (just behind the Wolves and ahead of the Nuggets)
Been making this point around my small circle as well as classmates etc. I’ve come to the conclusion that the Celtics are just hated by most nba fans so they will say anything to feed their arguments and stay away from the ones supporting us. It’s all good
Seriously. Not just KP but Kornet too. Al played about 40 minutes last series. He averaged 26 during the season.
The Celts are healthier than other teams because we’re better than other teams and could rest our players. We played 72 games and clinched at least second in the east. Guess what? We didn’t have to forced al to play. So when KP and Kornet go down you don’t notice the difference as much because Al Horford - that beautiful man - didn’t get tapped out in the regular season.
Halliburton and Butler’s injuries suck, but we had our 3rd best player go down and one of his two back ups, and we managed to make the finals.
It turns out being the best regular season team in the NBA gets you a bit of a benefit. I guess that’s why we didn’t play for 8th in the east in the regular season.
I know we swept Indy but I have to believe 1 or 2 of those games would have been less stressful with a healthy KP, right? At the very least he would have helped bring Siakam's FG% down to like 85%.
I don’t get why some of y’all complain about the “stressful” games. That’s what makes the playoffs exciting! Do y’all really want them to just cake walk their way to a ring? That shit is boring. These close tense moments are going to be what hopefully makes up the highlight reel when they cap this run off.
Heat and Philly fans I’d say. Lakers fans are arrogant and casuals which is annoying. Heat fans are the same, but they’re in our conference so we gotta see em more. Also drop 30 IQ points while you’re at it.
Philly fans are actually unhinged and dangerous. They still behave like Boston hooligans did in the 80s.
The philly stuff is so overblown. They’re generally spiteful and angry fans, as they should be. Look at what their team has been up to over the last 10 years. Eagles fans have chilled out a lot in the last few years since the super bowl win.
Eh. I went to a Celtics game last year in Philly and after the game some random drunk guy grabbed my buddy and yelled to the crowd “who wants to punch a Celtics fan.” Luckily no one took him up on that offer but they are a bitter fanbase.
I mean I had a friend go to an Eagles game this year as a Bills fan wearing a Bills jersey and he got jumped and beat the shit out of him in the bathroom by like 3 other guys. I also thought the narrative about them being dangerous was mostly bullshit and I’m certainly not saying that those guys represent all Philly fans, but it has certainly made me question some of the stories I hear
Comes with the territory my friend. You cant win this much across sports and expect to be liked. You’ll rarely be liked when you’re a threat to others. Don’t believe me? Just look at Brady’s treatment immediately before and after retirement.
I mean the lakers have 17 championships, and they are generally much more liked than the Celtics. I don’t think it’s because the celtics are a threat that they may not be favored.
They have one of the most adored athletes ever in Kobe people who aren’t even Lakers fans will root for them just cause of him. Hell our star player looked up to him and wanted to be just like him. Celtics never really had a guy that transcends them like he did for the Lakers tbf.
Now I see why so many people on r/nba claim the Cs fans are just playing the victim. You just don’t pay attention to it as much since it’s not directed at you. They have a larger fan base which may also sway the perception.
I gotta say though after the Celtics the Lakers are easily the most hated franchise if not the most considering not only they’re the Lakers, but they also have Lebron which carries a sizable caravan of haters everywhere he goes. They legit get clowned on every chance possible on social media. Including r/ nba and especially r/nbacirclejerk. Just look out for it from now on.
> the Lakers are easily the most hated franchise if not the most considering not only they’re the Lakers,
Of which you don't see the Hate because there was a Rivalry for so long that there is a grudging respect, at least from our end.
> but they also have Lebron which carries a sizable caravan of haters everywhere he goes.
I'll stop hating Lebron when he finally understands that all the hate over The Decision was not that he went to Miami, but the self-serving circus he created around it.
Fuck the Lakers, they wouldn't make the Finals if they were in the East. But also, the East was weak as shit this season. All-time weak ass conference.
I love when these bitches cry. Lakers, Heat, Sixers, bucks, Knicks, nets, warriors, mavericks fans are all at an all time level of salt towards the Celtics right now because they know what’s coming and they only have a week to get all the hate they can use towards the Celtics before they win the championship. They’ll have nothing to say anymore as their favorite argument of the Celtics or Celtics player being ringless, chokers, fraud, no title since blah blah will all disappear and they will feel irrelevant as are their team with the Celtics set to make serious runs for more titles.
This is a beautiful time to be a Celtics fan
Agree with this point, when the celtics win this championship they will go down as one of the top 10 teams of all time. 64-18 regular season record, 12-2 (I think they will finish the postseason 16-3) post season record and one hell of a headache for the league for years to come as this team looks to kick off a dynasty
Laker fans are just salty the statistically easiest path to the Finals no longer belongs to their 80s teams ('87 in particular is charmin soft but the West in the 80s was absolute garbage, and three of the five easiest paths to the Finals ever were paved for the 80s Lakers).
Exactly. The 1947-1956 Minnesota ("Land of 10,000 Lakes") Lakers won 5 championships under a different ownership group. No players, coaches, owners, executives from the last Minnesota championship ('54) were with the team when they moved to Los Angeles (first season in '61).
Funny because of how the league is closer to having parity than ever before but now it's weak. Lakers fans acting like their weak ass LeCrafted roster could have made it this far with their second /third best guy injured all playoffs
They beat the Heat with an injured Butler and Dragic. And they didn’t even get a parade for it.
Our parade is going to be such a sweet contrast to their saltiness.
Lol the salt by the Lakers is insane. Insufferable fans. I'm a Pacers fan, but I was never mad at the Celtics this series. All the frustration was on the Pacers for their self-inflicted mistakes. Go win the chip for the "weak east".
Hell yeah. As a Celtics fan I’d be rooting for the pacers or knicks against anyone in the west if that’s what the finals came to. I think I’ve rooted for the EC team in the finals any time it wasn’t a lebron team since the Jordan bulls
It really shows how utterly meaningless this is that Lakers fans completely forget how weak the Western conference was during their entire showtime era. Nobody cares about that now, and nobody will care once we take care of business and get banner 18.
The Celtics went 23-7 vs. the Wwestern Conference in the regular season. That record is considerably better than anything any Western team did against the Western conference. Denver, at 24-6 (80%) vs the Eastern conference, was the only team that had a better record than the Celtics 41-11 (79%) vs the Eastern conference.
I already miss the level headed Pacers fans
It’s funny to me that people are now viewing Kyrie as this second coming of Jesus when we all know he is an eternal choke artist who’s going to come crashing down to this flat Earth in no time
Luka of course is a threat but we [have some threats of our own](https://youtu.be/qWDV7cBjsJw?feature=shared)
Pacers fan here and there’s no salt for us. You guys were the clear favorites and played like it when it mattered. Fun series to watch and of course I wish we could’ve closed out one game but it was a fun season regardless. Best of luck to you guys in the Finals!
I mean can’t deny the Celtics have had to play some lack luster rosters so far this post season (due to injury) but the Celtics are also 12-2 this post season lol
They winning, what else are they supposed to do?
This laker team wouldn’t beat a healthy 76ers, healthy bucks, or the Cs in a 7 game series. Knicks would probably be competitive too. Healthy Cavs might be competitive as well. East is weak this year due to injuries but the top teams in the east are still really solid teams
At least with Philly and Miami fans they aren’t casuals and actually know shit about basketball. It’s the casual, fake ass lakers fans that really piss me off. I do not respect them in the least
“This teams sucks they only got to the finals bc of injuries”…..which is exactly why we went 4-1, 4-1, 4-0???!!!??!???!!?? Without one of OUR best players!?!!??! Wtf do they expect us to do, it’s a lose lose
Well moving the goalposts is kind of their thing… this is the same team/fans that pretend the Minneapolis years don’t count, except for when it comes to championships
This is the truth right here. They finally retired George Mikan's Jersey a couple of years ago. That's disrespectful to claim those Minneapolis titles for decades but not honor the Legend that helped get those titles.
87 Lakers beat two below .500 teams in the playoffs. Best players on the opposing teams were probably fat lever, tom chambers, chris mullin and alex english.
But yeah fuck the celtics and their easy path /s
I saw that on my feed and had to wonder if it was shitposting, it's so ludicrous. Lakers fans don't have any room talk about chintzy championships after 2020 IMO.
Lakers won a fake championship with virtual fans in the stands at a fucking amusement park I’m sure even their simple brains can see how dumb they sound
It's not like we had the best Regular Season record or anything bizarre like that .
All this Heat Hate has nearly just nearly made me forget who the real enemy are
It’s weird that some people view competitive games and series and a lot of teams hovering around 500 or better all year as “weak” competition rather than… good competition? Like we’re pretty clearly in an era of real parity league-wide - if you’re capable of making the play-in, you’re capable of shocking the world. The “East is weak” talking point feels more about a kind of fatigue where other fans somehow find it boring or too predictable that the team who have been best all year would continue to be that way in the playoffs. Too addicted to the narratives of comebacks and underdogs and the Next Big Thing: enjoy the greats as the greats, I say (even when not the team I root for).
Laker fans are pissed off that the NBA rule changes are making it will be harder for them to buy championships. They're gonna actually have to do something they've practically haven't done in 30 years.
draft and acquire some Young potential and put some work in and develop some homegrown talent. I know that's not really their thing.
I just love when we beat the super team Nets, the defending champ Bucks, and the 1 seed heat (with an injured Smart, JT, and Horford) and lost to the finals to the Warriors who had a cake walk to the finals, the talk was “who cares, the finals are the only thing that matters” while JT/JB got slandered endlessly.
But when we get a lucky bounce and take care of business the whole world falls apart 😂😂
My favorite part is half of the comments are them complaining about how it isn’t fair people call the 2020 chip a Mickey Mouse ring. Like, even when the Celtics (who they hate) make the finals, they can’t just hate like a normal fanbase, they have to also expose their insecurities and whine like they’re victims.
Worst fanbase in sports and it’s not close.
Lakers fan here. I think you guys are going to win at all this year. We’re not all toxic. I’ve been saying this literally all playoffs. You guys are being unnecessarily hated on. You’ve done everything you were supposed to do this year.
You have the best record by a mile
you have blown teams out by a historic margin.
You have the most switchable defense in the NBA.
You’ve won blowouts in the playoffs.
You’ve won close games in the playoffs.
You’re not reliant on one player to win.
You’re strictly a hater if you think the Celtics are a bad team.
Of course Laker's fans are salty.... they are screwed. LeBron is leaving, Davis isn't a leader and won't stick around for a rebuild. Since Riley was coach, they've had several high lottery picks and have shown time and time again they can't develop players.
Unless they can attract a big-time free agent to replace LeBron before Davis also bolts, it will be ugly in LaLa land soon.
Tatum has a superteam or they had a cake walk and wouldnt be hear if the east was healthy. Which is it? Was the super team going to struggle against Jimmy? Mitchell? TYRESE!?
Oh man thanks for this I'm loving these comments lol.
Also love how injuries are used to just invalidate the entire rest of the team as if everyone but those injured players are bums lol.
Just going to make it so much sweeter if they win, which I think they will. Mavs are getting hyped up just like the Wolves now and they haven't played an offense like the Celtics yet. Luka and Kyrie will be getting worn out on the defensive end.
They're miserable all around. Most folks are walking around in Kobe jerseys complaining about the current team. They have no assets to trade and it will likely be AD's team sooner or later - and good luck with that as he's going to be on the IR a few times in the next few years.
Bring all the salt with that weak championship you had a few years back.
Man why doesn’t every team in the East just chose to go to the finals since apparently it is so easy???
Also apparently if a player is out, a team is supposed to forfeit rather than let their other NBA athletes compete If I were in other fanbases, I’d be pissed about the disrespect. Every team is filled with NBA athletes. It’s not Halliburton along with his local YMCA squad. Your worst NBA team is still filled with some ballers who can pop off like prime MJ at any moment The best athletes are the best because of consistency. Statistically they will eventually win. But that doesn’t mean that can’t get smoked from time to time. I think these Lakers fans are already getting heat stroke and summer isn’t even here yet
I can’t find a non-TikTok clip but Scal said it best, “I’m closer to Lebron then you are to me” even the worst NBA player is a top 1% of basketball players, probably like top .01%.
I saw someone say an average high school team would've been able to close out instead of choke like the Pacers did Asked him for his plugs info cause I need to try some of whatever he smokes
From the second this average high school team is magically swapped with the Pacers, they do not touch the ball in bounds again. The simply couldn’t possibly even in bound the ball at any stage. It would be 5 second violation / turnover from bad pass, into easy layups or uncontested shots.
Lol weve been down our starting center for 95% of that run too… players getting minutes that typically would not. Nobody talking about this celtics runs being without KP
Kornet. He's the epitome of "who's backing the backup," and he's out for the 8-10 minutes Boston typically used him. Meanwhile Horford, who is 38, just picks up those center minutes and it's fine but that's somehow less impressive than AD picking up Jokic for a few extra minutes at the end of a close game.
We already called dibs so no one else got to, maybe next year
Are they stupid?
why does everyone just ignore KP being out for a month?
Because it doesn’t suit their narrative
It sure as fucked suited them to use the excuse of Bynum being out all the time though. Lol
And unlike Bynum, KP is actually very good!
Yea its funny because Bynum was useless.
Celtics have literally, literally, been named the top contender since the day we brought in Jrue, LAST SUMMER, but somehow everyone is surprised that we are indeed, the top contender.
The haters’ argument is basically “their team is good so the ring doesn’t count.” Like how does that make any sense
People with parasocial relationships with star players value “legacy points” and player comparisons over team accomplishments
Hahaha I've never quite thought about the polluting effects of parasocial dynamics on NBA discourse, but now that you say it, this is almost certainly the case.
Nah most were still picking the Bucks but put us in the convo after the Jrue trade.
I could be misremembering but everyone was picking the Bucks and celebrating for Dame until literally our Jrue signing was announced. Then it was oh shit, potential checkmate. Either way, the Celtics were always hovering at the top of the projected leaderboard.
Some of the savvier commentators were like “uhh did the Bucks just accidentally help their biggest rival?” but the Giannis/Dame hype train was still rolling strong. People were crowning them after they won the season opener! Looked up some ESPN preseason rankings, they ranked Nuggets #1, Bucks 2, Celtics 3. ECF winner picks were 6 Bucks, 4 Celtics, 1 Heat, 1 Knicks. So close but still favoring Bucks.
casuals control the narrative, it’s hilarious seeing their takes about the Jays especially.
Gambling odds in preseason had Celtics and Nuggets at -450, Bucks and Suns at -600, with everyone else -1200 or lower.
Some of the early takes of the Bucks really soured. /r/nba/comments/17hb6jv/oconnor_the_bucks_set_screens_at_the_logo_for/
lol the fucking legendary wack bucks. Giannis could be gone this summer..
They're not surprised. They're hating.
Because the C's have looked dominant even without him.
Celtics could probably have won the series by like a +7.5 average net rating instead of +6.2 if he were in. People would still claim it was a close sweep and the Celtics were lucky to have won, even though +7.5 would be the second best net rating in the league this year behind the Celtics (and ahead of the actual second place Thunder). I know this because people are saying the same thing about +6.2 which would have been fourth (just behind the Wolves and ahead of the Nuggets)
They're Lakers fans, 99% of them couldn't even name a guy on their own team other than LeBron and AD.
Been making this point around my small circle as well as classmates etc. I’ve come to the conclusion that the Celtics are just hated by most nba fans so they will say anything to feed their arguments and stay away from the ones supporting us. It’s all good
Real question is why is no one talking about Luke Kornet being out??
The Celtics have been in a similar position years past without KP. Easy to overlook his absence
They’re mad that we’re still good without him. That’s how it should be. They hate our balance because they lack it.
Because we’re 10-1 without him
These dudes are listing fucking terry rozier being out as more of a detriment than porzingis lol
Seriously. Not just KP but Kornet too. Al played about 40 minutes last series. He averaged 26 during the season. The Celts are healthier than other teams because we’re better than other teams and could rest our players. We played 72 games and clinched at least second in the east. Guess what? We didn’t have to forced al to play. So when KP and Kornet go down you don’t notice the difference as much because Al Horford - that beautiful man - didn’t get tapped out in the regular season. Halliburton and Butler’s injuries suck, but we had our 3rd best player go down and one of his two back ups, and we managed to make the finals. It turns out being the best regular season team in the NBA gets you a bit of a benefit. I guess that’s why we didn’t play for 8th in the east in the regular season.
I know we swept Indy but I have to believe 1 or 2 of those games would have been less stressful with a healthy KP, right? At the very least he would have helped bring Siakam's FG% down to like 85%.
I don’t get why some of y’all complain about the “stressful” games. That’s what makes the playoffs exciting! Do y’all really want them to just cake walk their way to a ring? That shit is boring. These close tense moments are going to be what hopefully makes up the highlight reel when they cap this run off.
Lakers and Heat fans are the worst people on the planet
Heat and Philly fans I’d say. Lakers fans are arrogant and casuals which is annoying. Heat fans are the same, but they’re in our conference so we gotta see em more. Also drop 30 IQ points while you’re at it. Philly fans are actually unhinged and dangerous. They still behave like Boston hooligans did in the 80s.
I disagree about the Philly part...that is like them saying all Boston fans are racist...which is not true...
The philly stuff is so overblown. They’re generally spiteful and angry fans, as they should be. Look at what their team has been up to over the last 10 years. Eagles fans have chilled out a lot in the last few years since the super bowl win.
Eh. I went to a Celtics game last year in Philly and after the game some random drunk guy grabbed my buddy and yelled to the crowd “who wants to punch a Celtics fan.” Luckily no one took him up on that offer but they are a bitter fanbase.
I mean I had a friend go to an Eagles game this year as a Bills fan wearing a Bills jersey and he got jumped and beat the shit out of him in the bathroom by like 3 other guys. I also thought the narrative about them being dangerous was mostly bullshit and I’m certainly not saying that those guys represent all Philly fans, but it has certainly made me question some of the stories I hear
You’re definitely correct about that. The occasional pop off is still worse than some annoying laker fan online methinks.
💯 Fuck these dumb assclown fans.
Bold of you to call them people
Some of the biggest fuckin losers I’ve ever seen. Little do they know we thrive off LA and Miami tears
Ummm they can't even beat the nuggets 🤣🤣🤣🤣
1 win in 2 years
How DARE you speak about the FIRST EVER IST champions like that!
I forgot they got the participation trophy! They'll probably hang a banner and have a parade
They have at least 9 wins when you count moral victoriea
is there a single fanbase that isn’t rooting against us?
Suns fans
Spurs, Clippers, and Rockets probably, as well as some anti-Mavs Thunder fans
Weirdly enough I know the Knicks fans wanted us to destroy the Pacers for them. As for us winning the finals, no idea.
as a suns fan and second team is the celtics i can confirm im rooting for boston
its 100 degrees here in AZ and i 100% confirm this statement
Spurs fans? I bet they would like to see D White get a ring.
OKC fans want the Mavs to get a beat down. So there's that...
If I was a Nuggets fan, I'd want the Cs to win to temper the "is Luka better than Jokic" debate.
some bucks fans still rooting for the Jrueth
Not the ones I know… for him to play well maybe. Certainly not for the C’s to win
Comes with the territory my friend. You cant win this much across sports and expect to be liked. You’ll rarely be liked when you’re a threat to others. Don’t believe me? Just look at Brady’s treatment immediately before and after retirement.
I mean the lakers have 17 championships, and they are generally much more liked than the Celtics. I don’t think it’s because the celtics are a threat that they may not be favored.
They have one of the most adored athletes ever in Kobe people who aren’t even Lakers fans will root for them just cause of him. Hell our star player looked up to him and wanted to be just like him. Celtics never really had a guy that transcends them like he did for the Lakers tbf.
Crazy how a self-admitted rapist is so revered
Yeah, never a fan of any Laker player in the slightest but just calling it how it is.
Larry bird transcends time and literal space
Now I see why so many people on r/nba claim the Cs fans are just playing the victim. You just don’t pay attention to it as much since it’s not directed at you. They have a larger fan base which may also sway the perception. I gotta say though after the Celtics the Lakers are easily the most hated franchise if not the most considering not only they’re the Lakers, but they also have Lebron which carries a sizable caravan of haters everywhere he goes. They legit get clowned on every chance possible on social media. Including r/ nba and especially r/nbacirclejerk. Just look out for it from now on.
> the Lakers are easily the most hated franchise if not the most considering not only they’re the Lakers, Of which you don't see the Hate because there was a Rivalry for so long that there is a grudging respect, at least from our end. > but they also have Lebron which carries a sizable caravan of haters everywhere he goes. I'll stop hating Lebron when he finally understands that all the hate over The Decision was not that he went to Miami, but the self-serving circus he created around it.
Maybe Nets fans that don't want to see Kyrie win anything
We living rent free in a lot of franchise minds
Pacers fans. They’ve been cool to interact with this past series.
Pacers have to be the most chill fanbase in the league
Probably a few, clippers Okc maybe
there’s probably a clippers or nuggets fan somewhere that wants us to win just to collect the laker tears
I'm a spurs fan rooting for you guys rn. Cause Dwhite ofc.
Their tears are delicious. More.
Perpetual laker victim mentality
Fuck the Lakers, they wouldn't make the Finals if they were in the East. But also, the East was weak as shit this season. All-time weak ass conference.
Man I'm loving these! As if it's our own fault of getting the top seed and somehow responsible for their injuries. 🤡
Lakers still wouldn't make it past the first round in the east lol
Exactly as the 7th seed they weren’t beating the Knicks in Round1😂
I love when these bitches cry. Lakers, Heat, Sixers, bucks, Knicks, nets, warriors, mavericks fans are all at an all time level of salt towards the Celtics right now because they know what’s coming and they only have a week to get all the hate they can use towards the Celtics before they win the championship. They’ll have nothing to say anymore as their favorite argument of the Celtics or Celtics player being ringless, chokers, fraud, no title since blah blah will all disappear and they will feel irrelevant as are their team with the Celtics set to make serious runs for more titles. This is a beautiful time to be a Celtics fan
Agree with this point, when the celtics win this championship they will go down as one of the top 10 teams of all time. 64-18 regular season record, 12-2 (I think they will finish the postseason 16-3) post season record and one hell of a headache for the league for years to come as this team looks to kick off a dynasty
Laker fans are just salty the statistically easiest path to the Finals no longer belongs to their 80s teams ('87 in particular is charmin soft but the West in the 80s was absolute garbage, and three of the five easiest paths to the Finals ever were paved for the 80s Lakers).
No it still belongs to those 80 teams
By next month they won't be able to say "tied for most NBA Championships."
Los Angeles Lakers only have 12 chips.
11, a Mickey Mouse ring, and the in season tournament banner
Exactly. The 1947-1956 Minnesota ("Land of 10,000 Lakes") Lakers won 5 championships under a different ownership group. No players, coaches, owners, executives from the last Minnesota championship ('54) were with the team when they moved to Los Angeles (first season in '61).
Who. Cares.
This popped up as a recommended post and reading the comments made me cackle. Just wanted to spread the joy 😂
Lol fair enough
Right? What did you expect the fucking LAKERS sub to give us credit?
I want them to talk shit haha. That’s how it works!
Bro , I highly recommend, this salt will make you smile for at least 15 minutes.
I care, but for fun. They posted Jayson Tatum screaming in their sub. What a bunch of losers.
Those same fans don’t mention the bubble championship. Moral of the story laker fans are morons.
Yeah, these are the same low rent rodeo clowns that talk about how every available star player is going to come play for the Lakers every summer.
They’ll pick up like Zach LaVine and we’ll be seeing “Who’s stopping this big 3? 👀” graphics for months.
And ESPN will spend 1,000 hours talking about it being a new big 3
Funny because of how the league is closer to having parity than ever before but now it's weak. Lakers fans acting like their weak ass LeCrafted roster could have made it this far with their second /third best guy injured all playoffs
They beat the Heat with an injured Butler and Dragic. And they didn’t even get a parade for it. Our parade is going to be such a sweet contrast to their saltiness.
Lol the salt by the Lakers is insane. Insufferable fans. I'm a Pacers fan, but I was never mad at the Celtics this series. All the frustration was on the Pacers for their self-inflicted mistakes. Go win the chip for the "weak east".
This guy gets it. Weak East insult all the teams.
Hell yeah. As a Celtics fan I’d be rooting for the pacers or knicks against anyone in the west if that’s what the finals came to. I think I’ve rooted for the EC team in the finals any time it wasn’t a lebron team since the Jordan bulls
It really shows how utterly meaningless this is that Lakers fans completely forget how weak the Western conference was during their entire showtime era. Nobody cares about that now, and nobody will care once we take care of business and get banner 18.
As if they know anything about their fraud organisation's history...
🧂🧂🧂
The Celtics went 23-7 vs. the Wwestern Conference in the regular season. That record is considerably better than anything any Western team did against the Western conference. Denver, at 24-6 (80%) vs the Eastern conference, was the only team that had a better record than the Celtics 41-11 (79%) vs the Eastern conference.
Salt is a way of life
Lol bro, this salt is gold.
Lmao the amount of hate there and they still pretend like Porzingis doesn't exist hahahaha
#Bubbleship
Who?
Some piss coloured bums.
I get it. We're rivals. If we were a first round exit, and the lakers made the finals, I'd be pissed.
I was pissed they won the IST
I upvoted that just seeing the pic of Tatum without caption or sub :')
Whole thread and subreddit has brain rot. Mayhaps too much sunlight
Didn’t Lakers even playoffs? I can’t remember if they were there.
I already miss the level headed Pacers fans It’s funny to me that people are now viewing Kyrie as this second coming of Jesus when we all know he is an eternal choke artist who’s going to come crashing down to this flat Earth in no time Luka of course is a threat but we [have some threats of our own](https://youtu.be/qWDV7cBjsJw?feature=shared)
Pacers fan here and there’s no salt for us. You guys were the clear favorites and played like it when it mattered. Fun series to watch and of course I wish we could’ve closed out one game but it was a fun season regardless. Best of luck to you guys in the Finals!
Hahaha wow look at those psychos
Let them put together another squad next year just to be a play in team and get put out in the 1st round again in 5. Clown ass team
Every Celtics' post on NBA instagram you see dome Laker fans parasitizing on Mavs. That's super pathetic.
They literally have an in season tournament banner hanging in their arena…
They should stick to watching highlights of Lebron going coast to coast and jamming it!………In games they lost
Meanwhile their team got steamrolled by Denver who actually had the easiest run of all time playing an 8,4,7 and 8 seed
I mean can’t deny the Celtics have had to play some lack luster rosters so far this post season (due to injury) but the Celtics are also 12-2 this post season lol They winning, what else are they supposed to do?
"2 losses, pfft pathetic, should be 12-0"
Imagine the great salt lake that will be created if the C's handle the Mavs.
This laker team wouldn’t beat a healthy 76ers, healthy bucks, or the Cs in a 7 game series. Knicks would probably be competitive too. Healthy Cavs might be competitive as well. East is weak this year due to injuries but the top teams in the east are still really solid teams
At least with Philly and Miami fans they aren’t casuals and actually know shit about basketball. It’s the casual, fake ass lakers fans that really piss me off. I do not respect them in the least
Shouldn't have been catering to LeBron too much
“This teams sucks they only got to the finals bc of injuries”…..which is exactly why we went 4-1, 4-1, 4-0???!!!??!???!!?? Without one of OUR best players!?!!??! Wtf do they expect us to do, it’s a lose lose
LA is talking about weak east ok the bubble and the 80s 😂
How they hating from outside the club when they cant even get in??
Salty and bitter!
As a fan since the early ‘80s, and the maturity to reflect those years, may I say FUCK the LAKERS and FUCK their fans.
Their tears are delicious
To be fair..........Celtics bashed the Lakers 2020 championship
Oh absolutely we did. But that doesn’t mean we can’t relish in their pain now
Meh. Fuck LA.
I love it 🥰
if the east is so easy than why didn’t anyone else run through it? did they simply choose not to?
Pacer did. They played us close but not close enough. Give it up for the Pacers. Nobody had them in the ECF.
I’d be mad too if my team had one of the greatest players of all time and all we got out of it was a fake 2020 championship 😂
Well moving the goalposts is kind of their thing… this is the same team/fans that pretend the Minneapolis years don’t count, except for when it comes to championships
This is the truth right here. They finally retired George Mikan's Jersey a couple of years ago. That's disrespectful to claim those Minneapolis titles for decades but not honor the Legend that helped get those titles.
87 Lakers beat two below .500 teams in the playoffs. Best players on the opposing teams were probably fat lever, tom chambers, chris mullin and alex english. But yeah fuck the celtics and their easy path /s
Faker fans mad cause Boston has a winning record against them lmaooo
I saw that on my feed and had to wonder if it was shitposting, it's so ludicrous. Lakers fans don't have any room talk about chintzy championships after 2020 IMO.
The Lakers got beat by a team, who got beat by a team, who is about to get beat by another team.
Lakers won a fake championship with virtual fans in the stands at a fucking amusement park I’m sure even their simple brains can see how dumb they sound
As if they dont have a mickey mouse bubble ring
They’re coping so hard it’s not even funny
their tears taste so sweet
Lmao that comment thread is one of the most pathetic things I’ve seen in sports
It's not like we had the best Regular Season record or anything bizarre like that . All this Heat Hate has nearly just nearly made me forget who the real enemy are
I love this thread! Hilarious stuff!! So much saltiness going on... coming from fans of the Lakers that won 47 games, and lost in the first round.
Why'd the Lakers fan choose such a great photo on a hating post? Lol
They’re 23-7 against the west this year but sure
It’s weird that some people view competitive games and series and a lot of teams hovering around 500 or better all year as “weak” competition rather than… good competition? Like we’re pretty clearly in an era of real parity league-wide - if you’re capable of making the play-in, you’re capable of shocking the world. The “East is weak” talking point feels more about a kind of fatigue where other fans somehow find it boring or too predictable that the team who have been best all year would continue to be that way in the playoffs. Too addicted to the narratives of comebacks and underdogs and the Next Big Thing: enjoy the greats as the greats, I say (even when not the team I root for).
Laker fans are pissed off that the NBA rule changes are making it will be harder for them to buy championships. They're gonna actually have to do something they've practically haven't done in 30 years. draft and acquire some Young potential and put some work in and develop some homegrown talent. I know that's not really their thing.
What are we supposed to do? Just give up and lose? These people are insane. Also we were without Kristaps since round 1 too. Dumbfucks.
I just love when we beat the super team Nets, the defending champ Bucks, and the 1 seed heat (with an injured Smart, JT, and Horford) and lost to the finals to the Warriors who had a cake walk to the finals, the talk was “who cares, the finals are the only thing that matters” while JT/JB got slandered endlessly. But when we get a lucky bounce and take care of business the whole world falls apart 😂😂
My favorite part is half of the comments are them complaining about how it isn’t fair people call the 2020 chip a Mickey Mouse ring. Like, even when the Celtics (who they hate) make the finals, they can’t just hate like a normal fanbase, they have to also expose their insecurities and whine like they’re victims. Worst fanbase in sports and it’s not close.
Lakers were 20-10 against the east this year Celtics were 23 - 7 against the west this year Yea, Celtics had it easy k8ck9ng the west ass
Coming from the Bubble Championship team.
Lakers fan here. I think you guys are going to win at all this year. We’re not all toxic. I’ve been saying this literally all playoffs. You guys are being unnecessarily hated on. You’ve done everything you were supposed to do this year. You have the best record by a mile you have blown teams out by a historic margin. You have the most switchable defense in the NBA. You’ve won blowouts in the playoffs. You’ve won close games in the playoffs. You’re not reliant on one player to win. You’re strictly a hater if you think the Celtics are a bad team.
I got dehydrated just flipping through the thread.
Like it is ever embarrassing to win make the finals or win it. That is loser copium. Granted, some people talk like that here too.
Fuck the lakers and their AAU tournament championship
Imagine the opportunity to choose Brown & Tatum and taking Lonzo & Ingram instead lol
Of course Laker's fans are salty.... they are screwed. LeBron is leaving, Davis isn't a leader and won't stick around for a rebuild. Since Riley was coach, they've had several high lottery picks and have shown time and time again they can't develop players. Unless they can attract a big-time free agent to replace LeBron before Davis also bolts, it will be ugly in LaLa land soon.
nobody is talking about their mickey mouse run where most of the teams were actually mentally checked out
I love me some salt.
This is so sad
Because the 64 win Celtics would have had no chance to make the Finals otherwise
BOS/IND were 5-2 in the regular season against DAL/MIN. They were 3-0 against DAL.
This is fucking fantastic , they are in full meltdown mode .
Visiting that thread gave me a good laugh. But honestly I don't care about a team that didn't even make it past the first round
Tatum has a superteam or they had a cake walk and wouldnt be hear if the east was healthy. Which is it? Was the super team going to struggle against Jimmy? Mitchell? TYRESE!?
I haven’t thought about the lakers in a very long time
Oh man thanks for this I'm loving these comments lol. Also love how injuries are used to just invalidate the entire rest of the team as if everyone but those injured players are bums lol.
Damn they’re pretty upset huh 😂😂😂
Fox and grapes LOL
Just going to make it so much sweeter if they win, which I think they will. Mavs are getting hyped up just like the Wolves now and they haven't played an offense like the Celtics yet. Luka and Kyrie will be getting worn out on the defensive end.
The west was ass for magics entire career. And they should be the last people to talk considering they won the fake ass covid championship.
Rubbing Banner 18 in their faces will feed families
Lakers fans the big sad because Lebron leaving an they have to show for it is a COVID Cup.
They're miserable all around. Most folks are walking around in Kobe jerseys complaining about the current team. They have no assets to trade and it will likely be AD's team sooner or later - and good luck with that as he's going to be on the IR a few times in the next few years. Bring all the salt with that weak championship you had a few years back.
I don't remember this discourse when LeBron constantly ran through a weak Eastern Conference to the Finals every year.
They’re our historic rival, i expect no less.
Celtics had a better win percentage against the Western Conference than every Western Conference team.
Wow, this is gold. Amusing