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Now, he’s trying to push Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown whenever they’re matched up against practice. And that’s part of the value the Celtics’ lone rookie can bring to an NBA Finals run even if he isn’t playing every night. As he so eloquently put it: “I’m here to kill you in practice. I don’t care who you are, I’m trying to kill. So that’s kind of the mentality I have.” “If you put me against JT, I’m going at his throat,” Walsh added. “I’m trying to lock him up. Obviously him and JB, I play one-on-one with them. It’s just about always showing I’m a competitor, I’m never giving up. I don’t care who you are. I’m going to fight like hell to try and beat you in whatever we’re doing.”
Jorge Sierra: Al Horford passed Dwight Howard in playoff rebounds, Bob Pettit in scoring and Allen Iverson in steals last night. He’s No. 18 all-time in rebounds, No. 51 in points and No. 57 in steals all-time now. A pretty big deal. pic.twitter.com/tFLSMfSycZ
Sunday's Celtics vs. Mavs game becomes the most-watched Finals Game 2 in five years.
Ben Cafardo: 🏀 ABC’s exclusive broadcast of last night’s #DifferentHere victory vs #OneForDallas was the most-watched #NBAFinals Game 2 in five years (Fast Nationals, Nielsen). 📺It averaged 12,063,000 viewers, peaking with 14,106,000 viewers at 10 p.m. ET. That’s up 10 percent from Game 1.
Richard Deitsch: NBA Finals viewership: Game 1: 11.04 million. Game 2: 12.06 million. Peaked at 14.1M.
Derrick White will seek a contract extension with Boston this summer
Keeping his five best players together for the long term is going to get increasingly difficult (as in expensive) for Brad Stevens and the Celtics after the forthcoming offseason, when Jayson Tatum signs his own $315 million contract extension after Jaylen Brown scored a nearly $290 million extension last summer. We must also factor in that Derrick White, according to league sources, will be seeking a contract extension this summer.
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Shawn and Toya Holiday proudly sat in the TD Garden stands, this time representing their son, Boston Celtics guard Jrue Holiday, by donning his green No. 4 gear after another NBA Finals win Sunday night. The Holidays are one of the greatest NBA family legacies with three sons – Jrue, Justin and Aaron – currently in the league. The Holidays celebrated Jrue on this night, scoring a team-high 26 points that sparked the Celtics to a 105-98 win against the Dallas Mavericks in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. The first-year Celtics guard is now two wins away from his second NBA championship with Game 3 of the best-of-seven series Wednesday in Dallas (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC). “It’s always fun for us when he plays well. He’s having fun,” Shawn Holiday told Andscape. “It’s a blessing. What a wonderful opportunity at our age: we come into a stadium and watch our child step into his strength. It’s nice … We’re going to go home and talk about this all night,” Toya Holiday said.
The eldest Holiday sibling, Justin, 35, played for the Denver Nuggets last season, won an NBA title with the Golden State Warriors in 2015 and has played 11 NBA seasons. Aaron Holiday, 27, is a guard for the Houston Rockets who has played six NBA seasons. The Holidays also have a daughter, Lauren Fuller, 30, who played 12 games in two seasons for UCLA before retiring in 2014 after repeated head injuries. “We do have pride in it, but it’s more of a blessing,” Jrue Holiday, 33, said of three Holidays in the NBA during NBA Finals media day June 5. “That kind of humbles us, knowing that not that many families have the same type of experience. Every chance we get, we are really positive about that. It’s a blessing from God … “Also, people forget that we had a sister that played. She also has her input. It’s funny. We are all in a group chat. I talk to them separately or we will talk [together] about something. For the most part, I wouldn’t say it’s much about basketball. It’s more about life and encouragement if I have a bad game. We keep the basketball minimum and then life.”
“The key was the blessing of Jesus Christ, our Lord and savior,” Shawn Holiday said. “We built our foundation on the church while they were growing up. I feel like their mind is to that. Some kids are rebellious, but they went along with what we were trying to show them. With God and us, that helped. The ability that God gave them, that’s what it is. “We’re always asked what was the secret. It’s all of them. We just helped them find a way. They put in the work.” “I believe it’s a lot of prayer. It’s God’s gift … I know one of the Scriptures we stand on is in Deuteronomy that says God said that if you keep my commandments, I will bless you. And I just really believe that our children believe that. We love God,” Toya Holiday said.
PJ Washington: The Celtics are just better than all the teams we've played
But the answers they’ve found all season are tougher to find against this opponent. There’s no astrology or complicated science to explain what has Dallas in the precarious position of being down 2-0 in the NBA Finals to the Boston Celtics after Sunday’s 105-98 loss. This opponent has Dallas’ search for answers coming up emptier than ever before. “They’re just better,” PJ Washington said. “At the end of the day, they are better than all the teams we’ve played. It’s the finals, and we’ve just got to be better.”
