{"id":55385,"date":"2025-05-25T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/55385\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:14:10","slug":"would-the-boston-celtics-have-beat-the-indiana-pacers-if-they-made-the-east-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/55385\/","title":{"rendered":"Would the Boston Celtics have beat the Indiana Pacers if they made the East Finals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston Celtics<\/a> have beaten the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indiana Pacers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indiana Pacers<\/a> if they made the 2025 NBA Eastern Conference Finals? The Celtics, of course, did not, falling in six games to the New York Knicks in the &#8217;25 NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals second round. But Boston was a good matchup for the Pacers last season until the bottom fell out for Indy when point guard Tyrese Haliburton hurt his hamstring against the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>This iteration of Indiana is a better roster, and the Celtics were banged up even before the Jayson Tatum Achilles tendon injury. Would it have been a closer series this time around? Would the Pacers have won?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The hosts of the CLNS Media &#8220;Bob Ryan, Jeff Goodman, and Gary Tanguay!&#8221; podcast weighed in on a recent episode of their show. Check it out below!<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy this pod, check out the &#8220;How Bout Them Celtics,&#8221; &#8220;First to the Floor,&#8221; and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network: <a href=\"https:\/\/ytubl.ink\/3Ffk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/ytubl.ink\/3Ffk;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/ytubl.ink\/3Ffk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2025\/05\/25\/would-the-celtics-have-beat-the-pacers-if-they-made-the-east-finals\/83842773007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Would the Celtics have beat the Pacers if they made the East Finals?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Would the Celtics have beat the Pacers if they made the East Finals?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Would the Boston Celtics have beaten the Indiana Pacers if they made the 2025 NBA Eastern Conference Finals?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,6736,45,75,3798,46,14239,126,77,6,1177,7401,191,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-55385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bob-ryan","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-bostonceltics","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-gary-tanguay","15":"tag-indiana-pacers","16":"tag-jayson-tatum","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-eastern-conference","19":"tag-nba-eastern-conference-finals","20":"tag-new-york-knicks","21":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114567713903783721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}