Very And Fairly Easy, Road Wins For The Golden Knights and Heat Respectively, Advancing To The Final Round

It was very easy for the Las Vegas Golden Knights, building a (3-0) first period lead and cruising to a (6-0) win at Dallas to “6” the Stars. It will be the Golden Knights’ 2nd final round appearance in the franchise’s 6 seasons.

More 6’s, as now Eric Spoelstra has guided the Miami Heat to a 6th NBA final round appearance (2-3 in previous) in 13 seasons (2011-2023), as they fairly comfortably “barked” (I warned but as seemingly always did not cash) plus 8 or so for a third at Boston win in their semi.

Teams down (3-0) fell to (0-151) in the NBA and to (4-202) in the NHL, (0-48) in semis..

Alas this was the first Celtics’ season after the great Bill Russell’s death and since last season we lost two of my heroes, Jim Brown and Bobby Hull.

Jim and Bobby, true greats won 1 title each while Mr. Russell, matched only by Henri Richard won 11.

Al Lewis talked of the death blow dealt the Celtics when Len Bias died. They had won their 16th NBA crown and as was the case after #14 (Bob Cousy’s # and how lame was the East Conference Trophy presentation, an award named for Cousy, as it was the road Heat that won) in 1981 when they had 40 percent of the NBA crowns, 16 in 40 was again 40 percent.

Now after 1 title in 37 seasons, they are still tied at 17 with the Lakers (5 in Minneapolis, so Boston has the most (ode to Johnny) by far of any NBA city) and 17 of 77 is 22 percent.