In the NBA Finals, a team seeking championship glory, the Boston Celtics, will take on a team eager to play spoiler, the Dallas Mavericks.
The Celtics, led by Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, have had an easy journey to the series that will decide the championship.
Coming out of the weaker Eastern Conference as top seeds, they breezed past the Jimmy Butler-less Miami Heat, beat the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Indiana Pacers, who were without All-Star Tyrese Haliburton for the last two games.
Boston have won 12 of their 14 play-off games and gone undefeated on the road, but they know that none of that will matter if they fail to end a title drought that stretches back to 2008.
The mission is clear – hang that elusive record 18th championship banner from the TD Garden rafters and put recent post-season disappointment, including falling to the Golden State Warriors in the 2022 Finals
