Just when I thought the Bulls-Celtics series couldn't get any crazier, I turned on the television to TNT last night to see another overtime game in this series. That marks the fourth overtime in six games between these two teams. Simply put, that is unbelievable.
So now there will be a Game 7 on Saturday night in Boston, and the average person would predict the Celtics to win this game due to home-court advantage, but don't let that fool you. The Bulls have already taken the Celtics to overtime twice in Boston, so they're not intimidated the slightest bit.
When I previewed this series a couple weeks ago I stated that the Bulls would win if Derrick Rose played the best basketball of his short career, and I think he's definitely done that. That block he had on Rajon Rondo, which I might add was fading away, was just astonishing.
Let's go inside the numbers of this series after six games:
- Lead changes: 106
- Overtime Periods: 7
- Point differential (excluding Game 3): 1 point in advantage of the Bulls
- Other eye-opening moments: Hard foul on Brad Miller by Rajon Rondo; Ray Allen scores 51 points in Game 6; Shoving match between Rondo and Heinrich; Joakim Noah's breakaway steal and dunk on Paul Pierce.
However, I can't give it the best series of all-time. I give that to either the 2o02 Western Conference Finals with the Kings taking on the Lakers, or the 1998 NBA Finals where Michael Jordan famously took his last shot in a Bulls uniform to defeat the Jazz.
We won't really know how this series ranks with all the other till a three or four years pass by and whether or not we are still talking about it. If this was an NBA Finals, or even a Eastern Conference Finals, series then I think this would hands down rank at the top of the list.
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