The Indiana Pacers await the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals after the Boston Celtics were eliminated in the second round.
Paul Pierce didn’t enjoy seeing his former team lose, and didn’t hold back his feelings after Boston’s Game 6 loss.
“Pacers are gonna pop y’all, though. Y’all know that, right? Y’all know that the Pacers is gonna get y’all,” Pierce said in a video posted to social media. “So I don’t even want hear all that y’all feeling good. Y‘all beat an injured Celtics team. We didn’t have our All-NBA player, First Team, MVP candidate, who led us in all these categories. Whatever. But shoutout to New York.”
Pierce, of course, is referring to Jayson Tatum who ruptured his Achilles tendon in the second half of Game 4. The Celtics dominated Game 5, but lost all momentum in Game 6 in their 119-81 loss.
It’s not all that surprising to see Pierce believing Indiana will move on to the NBA Finals. The 2008 champion spent 15 of his 19 seasons with the Celtics and faced the Knicks several times in his career.
The Knicks, meanwhile, will go to their first Eastern Conference Final since 2000 where they’ll face the Pacers — the team that eliminated them from the playoffs last season.