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The NBA’s Eastern Conference is in an interesting position, with one team so far ahead of the pack and everyone else fighting for positioning and staying out of the play-in tournament.
One former NBA player isn’t so sure about that top contender even though they have a 15-game lead on everyone else in the East.
Former player Nate Robinson was on “The OGs Show” with Udonis Haslem and Mike Miller and said that the Boston Celtics don’t have enough “dawgs” on their team for him to trust them in the playoffs, saying “they can never get it done, I just have no faith in them.”
Nate Robinson says the Celtics don’t have enough dawgs on their team for him to trust them in the playoffs
“They can never get it done, I just have no faith in them.”
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The Celtics are putting together one of the best seasons in NBA history and are currently 62-16, including 35-3 at home, and have an 11.6 point differential.
They have won 25 of their last 29 games and are 100 percent healthy heading into the playoffs.
This take feels baseless and rooted in nothing but emotion, as even though the foundation of this team hasn’t won a title, this team has been one of the last teams standing almost every year for the better part of the last decade.
Robinson pointed out the Celtics don’t have the “it factor” and implied they don’t have that “dog” in them, as the kids would say.
Marcus Smart was always the player who most identified with being a “dog” for this team, and he is now in Memphis after nine years in Boston, and the team immediately improved without him which doesn’t help Robinson’s claim.
This was a bold statement, and we’ll see how well it ages once the playoffs start.
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