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Celtics-Mavericks Series\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n One swept, the other swept like gentlemen. It was as if the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks were eager to get on with this and wanted as much prep time as possible before Game 1 of the\u00a02024 NBA Finals<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on June 6.<\/p>\n Boston was the NBA\u2019s best team\u00a0by record all season<\/a>, running away with the East and claiming home court for as long as they needed it, including this round. Dallas went 50-32, which it\u2019s worth noting would have tied for second in the East with New York. That still was 14 games off the Celtics\u2019 pace, though, and good for only the No. 5 seed in the West.<\/p>\n That had the Mavericks playing from down under to beat the Clippers, the Thunder and the Timberwolves, all while looking more like a title threat at each step. Boston mostly stayed above the fray as favorites, which brought criticism for lone missteps against the Heat and the Cavaliers and allowed some critics to poke at forward Jayson Tatum\u2019s fire.<\/p>\n The Celtics\u00a0took both games<\/a>\u00a0against Dallas this season. They won 119-110 on the Mavericks\u2019 court on Jan. 22, then beat the Mavs again 138-110 on March 1 in Boston. This is Boston\u2019s 23rd\u00a0trip to the Finals. Dallas has made it twice before, this one coming 13 years after\u00a0its 2011 upset<\/a>\u00a0championship over the first edition of Miami\u2019s \u201csuper team\u201d.<\/p>\n Series schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n Here\u2019s how to watch the Celtics vs. Mavericks Finals:<\/p>\n All times Eastern Daylight Time<\/em><\/p>\n Game 1:\u00a0<\/strong>Mavericks vs. Celtics, June 6 (8:30 p.m., ABC)<\/p>\n Game 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Mavericks vs. Celtics, June 9 (8 p.m., ABC)<\/p>\n Game 3:\u00a0<\/strong>Celtics vs. Mavericks, June 12 (8:30 p.m., ABC)<\/p>\n Game 4:\u00a0<\/strong>Celtics vs. Mavericks, June 14 (8:30 p.m., ABC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Celtics-Mavericks Series\u00a0 One swept, the other swept like gentlemen. It was as if the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks were eager to get on with this and wanted as much prep time as possible before Game 1 of the\u00a02024 NBA Finals\u00a0on June 6. Boston was the NBA\u2019s best team\u00a0by record all season, running away with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134155,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134153\/revisions\/134155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}