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Scary times we're living in my friend. Scary times. The Bruins, down 3-2, are potentially one opposing goal away from ending their brief postseason. The Red Sox are off to an historically bad start to their season. A Super El Niño is brewing in the Pacific and a demented, malignant narcissist has his short fingers on the nuclear launch button. We're probably not getting out of this world alive.
To add to those miseries and woes, the Boston Celtics have picked the absolute worst possible time to forget how to shoot the basketball. Starting sometime during the third quarter of Game 5 in Boston Tuesday night, it seemed the ball simply couldn't find a path from Celtic hands to the hoop. The same problem occurred again midway through the second quarter last night, and pretty much continued for the rest of the game. The Celtics lost, 106-93, and the best-of-seven series is now tied at 3-3, with a fateful Game 7 in Boston on Saturday night.
Worse, Jayson Tatum left the game last night in the third quarter with left calf "discomfort." It's not yet clear whether or not he'll be available to play tomorrow.
The Sixers have already won twice in this series in the Garden, and will enter the game with confidence and momentum. Personally, if I had to pick my poison, I'd rather the Celtics lose to the Sixers in seven games tomorrow than lose in the next round to the fucking Knicks, who beat Atlanta last night, 140-89, to win their quarterfinal series in six games.
We may well be facing a long, hot summer with nothing to distract us other that watching the Sox slide into ignobility.
College football season begins in 120 days.