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2022 NBA Finals Between Celtics And Warriors Set For Thursday Night
15 Of The 30 NBA Head Coaches Are Black Men
Ime Udoka (Boston Celtics) is in NBA championship finals.
The Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics are set to face off in the 2022 NBA Finals.
The Warriors won the Western Confer- ence finals for the sixth time in eight years, closing out the Dallas Mavericks in five games on Thursday night. The Celtics sur- vived the Miami Heat 100-96 in a do-or- die Game 7 on Sunday night for the Eastern Conference finals title.
NBA FINALS ROUND
Boston Celtics vs. Golden State Warriors
Gervonta Davis Knocks Out Rolly Romero; Says He’s Ready For Ryan Garcia
DARVIN MONTY HAM WILLIAMS
When the Los Angeles Lakers chose Darvin Ham as its new head coach, the NBA reached historic heights. For the first time, 15 of the 30 coaches are Black.
Out of the 12 playoff teams and eight in the play-in tour- nament, 8 were coached by African-Americans.
• Monty Williams (Phoenix Suns, 1 seed West).
• Ime Udoka (Boston Celtics, 2 seed East) in the fi- nals.
• Jason Kidd (Dallas Mavericks 4th seed West.)
• Doc Rivers (Philadel- phia 76ers 4th seed East).
• J.B. Bickerstaff (Cleveland Cavaliers 8th seed East).
• Tyronn Lue (Los Ange- les Clippers 8th seed West).
• Nate McMillian (At- lanta Hawks 9th seed East).
• Willie Green (New Or- leans Pelicans 9th seed West)
To complete the 15 are:
• Dwane Casey (Detroit
JASON KIDD
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS
The feud between Ger- vonta Davis and Rolando Romero culminated on Sat- urday night at the sold out Barclays Center. Every form of trash talk and offensive comments had come out of their respective mouths when talking about one another during the buildup.
Fireworks were expected with the knockout artists. In- stead, however, we got a more tactical affair from Davis and
The Baltimore fighter dazzled on Saturday to knock out Rolly Romero.
Romero, but it felt like a matter of time before "Tank"
became unleashed. One dyna- mite counter straight left hand sent Romero face-first into the ropes, and when he got up, the referee didn't like the reaction from Romero and waved it off at 2:39 of the sixth round. DAZN had Romero ahead 48-47 at the time of the stoppage.
Romero (14-1, 12 KOs) boasted to anyone who'd lis- ten that he was going to KO Davis in the first round. In- stead, Romero surprised Davis by coming out trying to establish the jab.
And that is what we saw from both guys as they were respectful of the other's power. Not many punches were thrown, but as the fight was going on, Davis (27-0, 25 KOs) was getting closer to connecting with the left hand. When the sixth round came around, Davis had Romero figured out.
The sixth was looking to be another close round. Romero leaned down and connected on a right to the body. But Romero left his head exposed, and that was all Davis needed as he released a left to finish things off.
Now, what is next for Davis? Fans are tired of Davis feasting on second- rate opposition. They want him to face the best the light- weight division has to offer. Fellow lightweight star Ryan Garcia was at the fight and checking Davis out. It's a fight many want to see.
Pistons)
• Chauncey Billups
(Portland Trailblazers
• Wes Unseld, Jr.
(Washington Wizards)
• Jamahl Mosley (Or-
lando Magic)
• Stephen Silas (Hous-
ton Rockets)
• Newly hired Mike
Brown (Sacramento Kings) • Newly hired Darvin
Ham (Los Angeles Lakers)
Boston’s head coach, Ime Udoka has guided the Celtics to the NBA Finals for the first time in 12 years. The 44-year- old coach is not new to the coaching fraternity.
He spent seven seasons as an assistant in San Antonio under Gregg Popovich be- fore taking the same role with Philadelphia under Brett Brown and lastly in Brook- lyn with Steve Nash before making his way to Boston. His coaching journey followed after a seven-year NBA ca- reer.
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