The Boston Celtics are facing off with the defending NBA champs, set to play the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2022 Eastern Conference Semifinals after beating the Brooklyn Nets 4 – 0 in the first round of the East postseason. And while the Nets may have had two of the greatest offensive players in the modern game in Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, Brooklyn also had a lot of obvious faults Boston could pick on to get the win.
Not so much with the Bucks, whose biggest issue at the moment is the likely series-long absence of their second-leading scorer, All-Star forward Khris Middleton, due to a sprained MCL. And with the Celtics closely monitoring star forward Jaylen Brown’s hamstring tightness not to lose their own second-leading scorer, this series is a lot closer on both ends than the last.
Who will win the East Semifinals given all of this context?
The hosts of WEEI’s “Felger and Mazz” show Mike Felger, Tony Massarotti, and Jim Murray on a recent episode — check out their takes in the video embedded above courtesy of NBC Sports Boston.
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