Photo: AP Photo Good day to you, hoop-sport friends! It’s time for the second part of our extremely on-time and thorough preview of the 2019 NBA playoffs. Today we’ll discuss the important topics of the first-round series that begin, uh, today: When and where they’re on TV, who’s in ‘em, how they got here, and of course, most importantly, which of them will be the target of mean-spirited asides in this blog as punishment for their crimes. Onward, to the games!Boston Celtics (4) vs. Indiana Pacers (5)When the working relationship is tremendous and you treasure the constructive dialogPhoto: Maddie Meyer ((Getty) When does this shit start?Sunday, 1:00 ET, on TNT. Who are these groups?Even more than the 76ers, the Celtics were the team that was supposed to benefit the most from LeBron James’s departure from the eastern conference. After all, they took LeBron’s Cleveland Cavaliers to the seventh game of the conference finals just last season, and did it without Kyrie Irving or Gordon Hayward, riding the heady play of some extremely young and inexperienced dudes. When a healthy version of that team, with Kyrie and Hayward, kicked off this season by waxing the Sixers, I fully believed I was seeing the beginning of a 65-win season. Not so! The Celtics have been middling, dysfunctional crap all year, and didn’t even sneak into the top half of the East’s playoff seeding until just a couple weeks ago. Virtually everyone on the roster either regressed (the young guys) or declined (the older ones), the team reliably followed every brief run of success with a dispiriting losing streak, and the body language and post-game quotes were pretty much uniformly glum and horrible. The picture that emerged early in the season and never really dissipated is of a group of dudes who don’t really like each other very much and really don’t like playing together. It’s been great, actually.Advertisement As for the Pacers, I thought they were doomed when all-world guard Victor Oladipo went down with a ruptured quad tendon back in January. It seemed to be the consensus view, and with good reason: Oladipo was a fringe but legitimate MVP candidate last season, and few middle-of-the-pack teams could lose one of those without collapsing. But they just kinda never broke stride, reconfiguring on the fly around their tough-as-hell defense, a 29-year-old journeyman scorer, and their pair of very good young bigs. They even wound up with the same playoff seed they had a year ago. For this feat of leadership and tactical and strategic adaptability, coach Nate McMillan will receive essentially zero consideration for the NBA’s coach of the year award. Instead, it will go to Milwaukee’s Mike Budenholzer, whose MVP candidate played 72 games at the peak of his abilities and missed consecutive games exactly once all season, and whose team won 12 more games than the Pacers did. Tell me about some of their persons.The Celtics have an embarrassing wealth of notable persons, each one of whom gave
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Photo: AP Photo Good day to you, hoop-sport friends! It’s time for the second part of our extremely on-time and thorough preview of the 2019 NBA playoffs. Today we’ll discuss the important topics of the first-round series that begin, uh, today: When and where they’re on TV, who’s in ‘em, how they got here, and of course, most importantly, which of them will be the target of mean-spirited asides in this blog as punishment for their crimes. Onward, to the games!Boston Celtics (4) vs. Indiana Pacers (5)When the working relationship is tremendous and you treasure the constructive dialogPhoto: Maddie Meyer ((Getty) When does this shit start?Sunday, 1:00 ET, on TNT. Who are these groups?Even more than the 76ers, the Celtics were the team that was supposed to benefit the most from LeBron James’s departure from the eastern conference. After all, they took LeBron’s Cleveland Cavaliers to the seventh game of the conference finals just last season, and did it without Kyrie Irving or Gordon Hayward, riding the heady play of some extremely young and inexperienced dudes. When a healthy version of that team, with Kyrie and Hayward, kicked off this season by waxing the Sixers, I fully believed I was seeing the beginning of a 65-win season. Not so! The Celtics have been middling, dysfunctional crap all year, and didn’t even sneak into the top half of the East’s playoff seeding until just a couple weeks ago. Virtually everyone on the roster either regressed (the young guys) or declined (the older ones), the team reliably followed every brief run of success with a dispiriting losing streak, and the body language and post-game quotes were pretty much uniformly glum and horrible. The picture that emerged early in the season and never really dissipated is of a group of dudes who don’t really like each other very much and really don’t like playing together. It’s been great, actually.Advertisement As for the Pacers, I thought they were doomed when all-world guard Victor Oladipo went down with a ruptured quad tendon back in January. It seemed to be the consensus view, and with good reason: Oladipo was a fringe but legitimate MVP candidate last season, and few middle-of-the-pack teams could lose one of those without collapsing. But they just kinda never broke stride, reconfiguring on the fly around their tough-as-hell defense, a 29-year-old journeyman scorer, and their pair of very good young bigs. They even wound up with the same playoff seed they had a year ago. For this feat of leadership and tactical and strategic adaptability, coach Nate McMillan will receive essentially zero consideration for the NBA’s coach of the year award. Instead, it will go to Milwaukee’s Mike Budenholzer, whose MVP candidate played 72 games at the peak of his abilities and missed consecutive games exactly once all season, and whose team won 12 more games than the Pacers did. Tell me about some of their persons.The Celtics have an embarrassing wealth of notable persons, each one of whom gave
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