Boston Celtics 2024 NBA Championship Parade! 🏆
Boston Celtics 2024 NBA Championship Parade! 🏆
Boston Celtics players celebrating at the 2024 NBA Championship Parade in Boston.
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown's interviews after winning the 2024 NBA Championship title against the Dallas Mavericks.
Jayson Tatum had 31 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds as the Boston Celtics topped the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 on Monday night to win the 2024 NBA Championship, the franchise’s 18th championship, breaking a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history.
Boston Celtics earned its latest title on the 16th anniversary of hoisting its last Larry O’Brien Trophy in 2008. It marks the 13th championship won this century by one of the city’s Big 4 professional sports franchises.
Jaylen Brown added 21 points and was voted the 2024 NBA Finals MVP. Jrue Holiday finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Center Kristaps Porzingis also provided an emotional lift, returning from a two-game absence because of a dislocated tendon in his left ankle to chip in five points in 17 minutes.
It helped the Celtics cap a postseason that saw them go 16-3 and finish with an 80-21 overall record. That .792 winning percentage ranks second in team history behind only the Celtics’ 1985-86 championship team that finished 82-18 (.820).
Second-year coach Joe Mazzulla, at age 35, also became the youngest coach since Bill Russell in 1969 to lead a team to a championship.
Luka Doncic finished with 28 points and 12 rebounds for Dallas, which failed to extend the series after avoiding a sweep with a 38-point win in Game 4. The Mavericks had been 3-0 in Game 5s this postseason, with Doncic scoring at least 31 points in each of the them.
Kyrie Irving finished with just 15 points on 5-of-16 shooting and has now lost 13 of the last 14 meetings against the Celtics team he left in the summer of 2019 to join the Brooklyn Nets.
▶️ Jayson Christopher Tatum is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a McDonald's All-American in high school in Missouri and played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils. Tatum was selected with the third overall pick by the Boston Celtics in the 2017 NBA draft and voted to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2018.
A five-time NBA All-Star and four-time All-NBA selection, Jayson Tatum was named the NBA Eastern Conference Finals Most Valuable Player in 2022 and helped the Celtics reach the NBA Finals. In 2024, he led the team to a league-best 64 wins and their second NBA Finals appearance in three years. Jayson Tatum also won a gold medal on the 2020 U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo. He holds the record for most points scored in an NBA All-Star Game, with 55, and the most points scored in a Game 7 of any NBA playoffs series, with 51.
▶️ Jaylen Marselles Brown is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one year of college basketball for the California Golden Bears and was named first-team all-conference and Freshman of the Year in the Pac-12 Conference.
Declaring for the 2016 NBA draft after his freshman season, Jaylen Brown was selected by the Celtics with the third overall pick. As a professional, he has split his time between shooting guard and small forward.
Jaylen Brown is a three-time NBA All-Star and helped the Celtics reach the 2022 and 2024 NBA Finals, winning a championship and NBA Finals MVP in the latter; he has also reached the Eastern Conference finals six times with Boston.
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