[Highlight] A “WE WANT BOSTON!” chant breaks out at TD Garden as the Celtics lead the Sixers by 32
The Sixers haven’t beaten Boston in a Playoff series since 1982 lmao. You get what you wish for.
I had to look this up because it sounded too insane to be true
Yeah, Ronald Reagan was president when they last won.
Ronald Reagan before dementia too
I thought dementia was a pre-requisite for the job though…
Today I learned
Ronald Reagan?…. The actor?!!
Great Scott…
you know what else is insane…just how many top 5 picks the sixers have had in the last 20 years only to get belted constantly by the celtics
Trust the process, though. Couple more Okafors and Fultz’s and they’d be golden
Throw in a Ben Simmons or two, just for shits and giggles.
Simmons was at least good for a bit, tbf.
Yeah, but it’s that hope that kills.
Simmons is the most tragic of them all. Bro literally forgot how to play basketball.
Hell, you could even be nice and give them 2-3 Embiid-level players, and their injuries would never lineup to be competitive.
Thanks for Tatum guys
They also met like I think 23 or 24 times, an NBA record which makes it more insane lol
Edit: Celtics won the last 6 if anyone’s interested
Philly hasn’t beaten Knicks in playoffs since 1983 either!
(largely cause they have met only twice in playoffs since then, but still)
God that was one of the best wins I’ve ever felt.
DiVincenzo with a three! BANG BANG!
DiVincenzo was a monster that whole playoffs. I miss him and Hartenstein so much.
Philly has NEVER beaten the Thunder in the playoffs!
76ers have NEVER EVER beat the 49ers even in non playoffs!
Oh…it’s true. I was five the last time they beat us. It’s been a minute.
“This is not a rivalry….they always kick our ass”
Sixers haven’t beaten the Celtics in the postseason since Celtics fans began the most memorable chant in North American sports history.
First time ever hearing of this. Is this really the “most memorable”
“Yankees suck” is certainly much more iconic in Boston, overall.
maybe not most memorable but you must be young if you can never recall hearing this
And we’ve matched up in the playoffs more other more than any other teams, so it’s not like we’re talking about a random couple series. We’re about to lose our seventh series in a row to them.
You have to trust the process
I wonder when was the last time Embiid said “Trust the process” publicly
We deserved this.
In a way that makes me respect the “we want Boston” more.
they were sooo close in 2023 too
Until Tatum remembered that he was playing the 6ers at the end of game 6
Tatum was 0 for a hundred and the game was still tied. I knew we were losing that
16 points in the fourth in a 9 point win
Actual Philly fans with a frontal lobe, as it turns out, do NOT want Boston
The vast majority of our fanbase is legit delusional. It’s weird because in the other sports, it’s more likely that we’ll say the team sucks when they’re actually good. The sixers are a joke of an organization and I cannot fathom how anyone still has faith in them.
I mean we didn’t have a choice of team after the play-in what else were we gonna say lmao
Let’s go Sixers? Nothing? Either would be better
“Let’s go Sixers” would be the normal cheer.
IDK man but definitely not that loool
Idc if we’re getting clowned now we want Boston is more fun
confetti time!
I was going to say you could have let the Magic beat you, but… I don’t know if that’s even actually true with how terribly they played lol.
Who the hell was actually saying we want Boston? They’re dumb as fuck. The only good matchup we have on them is Embiid and he’s out. Everyone else is a bad matchup.
Sixers next year:
Nobody beats Philly 7 series in a row
My LORD lol that’s the kinda trivia you legit think is fake.
And that Sixers team was f* good.
Saturday Slam n Jam listener?
I was about to comment the same thing 😆
We cultured 🤜🤛
The players didn’t wish for this shit lmao those dumb ass fans were ones chanting it
Now that’s good banter
I’m not tooting my own horn because I’m not actually from the region but the fact that the fans are all chanting this this loud shows how serious Boston fans are. That they were aware of the Philadelphia chants. Or whatever the opposite of casual fan/plastics are
Celtics are a major point of pride for the city.
As are the redsox
And patriots
And bruins
I wish Major League Rugby grows and becomes more of a thing because the New England Freejacks have already threepeated and deserves their own space among the Boston sporting pantheon.
Also cause Rugby is awesome
Chicago Hounds coming for yall
New England Freejacks
sorry to say but I think Major League Rugby is at the end of a very long line. I have a hunch that outside of the big 4, the revs are too booty to attract a diehard fanbase until they get their new stadium.
Since we don’t have a WNBA team, I would put money on the Fleet getting big.
the red sox are really testing the limits recently though
Fleet are rapidly making the list too.
The entire Boston and Philly rivalry across all of our sports can basically boil down to two fan bases that take their teams very seriously not liking each other because we’re the exact same thing.
I’m from Philly and I’ve lived in New England. I don’t think anyone sticks with their teams more than Philly and Boston.
Yeah i definitely agree with this
I feel like a big part of it is just that our regions don’t really care about college or high school sports NEARLY as much as the south or midwest does. Like ALL of our sports energy generally goes into Professional teams instead. At least for New England, idk about Philly as much
It’s because usually the two cities have academically geared universities instead of athletic ones
Besides that one year back in like mid 2000s when Boston College was good.
I don’t remember who their QB was but that one year was magical for Boston college.
I remember playing the NCAA football game and just abusing BC even though I grew up on the west coast
Edit: holy fuck it was Matt Ryan LOL I completely forgot he went there.
I don’t think anyone sticks with their teams more than Philly and Boston.
You can just check Sixers attendance when the team is in a downswing to see that this isn’t true. Philadelphia fans might always be down for other teams, but when it comes to basketball they’ll only turn out for a good team. Otherwise they’ll probably be bottom 3 of the league in attendance. Happened in the 90s, in the late 00s, during the Process.
Sixers fans are historically fair-weather.
Baseball has summer weather and football is a massive party. Basketball is easy to stay home.
There’s really only so much you can put a fanbase through before they stop showing up. The Sixers bring out the 2001 team on special occasions as if they’re the 90s Bulls. The team that got spanked in the finals 25 years ago is the pride and joy of the Sixers last 50 years. It has been a pathetically run franchise for decades before most of us were born.
It’s easy for Celtics and Lakers fans to show up when the team is “bad” because they know there is a conference finals or finals run coming up within the next few years at all times, at worst. Making the conference finals seems as realistic as winning the lottery to Sixers fans. Most teams make it there by accident every once in a while. Buying tickets when this team is bad is like giving your addict brother $20 to “get back on his feet”. Not showing up when the Sixers are bad is just tough love, not fair-weather.
The Celtics could barely fill half of the arena when they were winning 11 championships in the 60s/70s.
Bruins were the more popular team until the mid 70s.
Toot that horn
I was chanting along with them from my apartment in Los Angeles
Northeast sports fandom hits different. Boston, NY, Philly fans across the major sports are a different breed and I feel a kinship with them, even if I hate some of their other teams
1000% — it feels akin to sibling or cousin rivalries
Best sports town for a reason.
This is the equivalent of fuck Trae young
Boston fans are ranked competitive fans
Friendly reminder that without the Designated Hitter now, the MLB is actively depriving the Phillies and Red Sox from developing a top 5 rivalry in all of sports for basically no reason at all. We could get 15+ extra days of this master class in entertainment every year and Meatball Rob won’t give it to us.
Also, the 6ers suck fuck philly time for PG to take another league endorsed PED kick-in vacation
-signed, south Philadelphia resident of 9+ years
What does that have to do with the DH, which MLB absolutely has?
Their point is both leagues are the same rules now so no reason they can’t play each other more.
I had no idea why the crowd was yelling that and I was at the game. Guess I am out of touch.
I expect the pettiness to always be a all time high cause fuck the Celtics.
Sixers took Ben Simmoms over Jaylen Brown and Fultz over Tatum in consecutive drafts. Danny Ainge the fitness god.
That has to BURN.
As always when this comes up, they weren’t bad moves at the time. No serious arguments that these were mistakes, that’s only post-facto cause they both ended up fucking headcases lol
People absolutely questioned the Fultz trade at the time
Especially as everyone knew by that point that the Celtics wanted Tatum.
Meh, in a perfect world Fultz was 100% exactly what they needed. Athletic, great shooter, could play as an initiator or be secondaryball handler to embiid and simons primary role. He just got whatever happened to his shoulder/mental that summer that ruined his ceiling
The Fultz pick was a no brainer. The Fultz trade was stupid
Great shooter?
In college he was a great shooter. He got injured after the draft which fucked up his shoulder
Yeah he was the complete package as a prospect. Best guard prospect since John Wall
Uhhh yeah.. he was shooting 41% from three in college.
They absolutely did not? Fultz was first on most people’s mock drafts at the time. Fultz was considered a star in the making in college. Nobody expected him to be such a huge bust. Tatum wasn’t even a consensus top 3 pick and people were suprised the Celtics didn’t take Fultz at one. Like what are yall talking about lol.
This was r/nba’s official mock draft lol: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/6f42mv/2017_rnba_mock_draft_official_draft_thread/?st=JKCWUV7F&sh=7b57c887
Ben Simmons specifically was far and away the consensus number 1 that draft. If the picks were reversed, Boston also would’ve taken Simmons. And he was a legitimately great defender and playmaker pre-injuries so idk how you can even say he was a bust. He was an All-Star and made All-NBA and first team All-Defenses in his early 20s. He was the correct pick.
At his peak LeBron basically said Simmons had potential to become like him.
Simmons is an all universe athlete who doesn’t give a shit about basketball. I believe he could have been a superstar if his head was in it. You can especially see it his first couple of years before the big contract. He’s a different kind of bust. Most of the ones we talk about just weren’t good enough at the next level. Simmons very clearly was, and chose to coast.
Back injuries that leave you vomiting on the floor do have a tendency to take you out of basketball. Even before the family issues or the mental challenges
The guy who publicly asked for Magic Johnson to mentor him as a big point guard was clearly not doing so to coast.
But the inability to develop a jump shot - that’s on Simmons
I feel like Simmons is a weird situation where some of the issues that caused his eventual fall from grace weren’t entirely unpredictable. He was certainly the consensus #1 so I don’t really hold it against them for picking him, but his time at LSU ended up being a lot more predictive than people thought.
Any team that had the first overall pick in the Simmons draft would’ve taken him, he was labeled the best prospect since Lebron… The Fultz draft, yeah there might be an argument there, but I don’t believe for a second any of Ainge’s comments about how they would’ve selected Tatum no matter what pick, that reeks of him trying to make himself look smart in hindsight. Its a shame how Simmons and Fultz turned out but it isn’t like they were stupid picks.
I mean Boston had the #1 pick in 2017 and traded down to #3 knowing they would still get Tatum so I feel like its pretty believable. If Ainge had wanted Fultz he wouldn’t have done that.
If he said this about Brown I’d agree but he traded out of the first pick
Deserved. 4⁄22 on 3s and like 15 of them were uncontested.
Even like 7⁄22 makes the game competitive. Just a pathetic display. *Just clarifying here I’m aware this means nothing at the end box score but we had two made 3s in the 3Q when we actually cut the lead to 15. Any extra 3s would’ve went a long way in a stretch like that
I don’t expect us to play like that in the next 3 but we’re absolutely getting 4-0’d
Am I crazy, but adding 9 points means it’s a 23 point game. I don’t think losing by 23 is competitive either
Yeah it’s not like it was much closer throughout. Was bouncing between 20 and 30. 9 more points maybe makes the Celtics work a bit harder in the 4th at best.
The Celtics missed 28 threes, can we add more points for them ass well?
We had a ton of open looks in the times we were cutting the deficit.
9 points would’ve gone a long way when we had open shots down by 15 in the 3rd
Seems like they played with 0 intensity from the start. Did anyone let them know the playoffs started?
The game plan at the start was to have Maxey and PG both iso cook and the second that didn’t work they fell apart
Thats the plan every game. And when one of them inevitably turns it over, 3 guys must help guard the ball handler so that the other team can shoot an open 3.
The only reason we beat Orlando is they couldn’t shoot worse than we couldn’t shoot that game.
The monkey’s paw curled in the city of Philadelphia and the Flyers have taken all of the remaining energy for themselves.
The Sixers and Phillies are destined for ruin this year in exchange for our young team making waves in the playoffs.
If you offer me a Philly playoff round win vs the Penguins, Celtics, Cowboys, or Mets, I’ll take the Flyers because Crosby and Malkin are insufferable, whereas I don’t have anything in particular against the Celtics other than losing to them constantly. But that’s cheating because the Cowboys and Mets don’t make the playoffs.
Why not just say swept instead of 4-0’d? Lol
Fewer letters
Sure isn’t. Five characters each.
I said letters. Just 1 letter in 4-0’d
Lmao okay fair enough.
d is the only letter in “4-0’d” checkmate
Technically correct, the best kind of correct
Why not just say “🧹”
Because I wanted to and the Sixers aren’t making me happy so I have to find other ways
I mean… if losing by 20 instead of 30 is “competitive”
At one point in the third we had cut it down to 15 while still only having two made 3s and continued bricking them on open shots. Having an extra 6 or 9 points by that point would absolutely help.
I’m not referring to 4th quarter garbage time
I don’t expect every shot to rim out at the rim next game.
My Philly friend, if you expected this series to be competitive then all your base already belong to Boston. Let’s enjoy that VJ is for real and is getting some playoff time
I didn’t expect competition in the sense of a series longer than 5 games but I certainly expect some of our players and especially our coach to act like they’re in the playoffs
How would it be if Embiid was healthy? As we say every year. I don’t think queta could guard Embiid even post injuries
Side note I feel so bad for Joel man
Today specifically? Still a bad loss if we’re shooting like that. But not relying on Bona and Drummond so heavily would at least give us actual offense in the paint and space some more of the floor for other guys to get up shots.
Maxey and PG would play the same way regardless, I think it was VJ hurt most by Embiid not being there
Would you contest an Oubre 3PA?
Elite trolling
I was telling the guy next to me that they were chanting this a few dyas ago. Then we broke out into the chants and it was awesome. Walking out of the stadium with those chants was hilarious too
TD Garden is always electric
They meant the other Boston
WE WANT BOSTON (College)
WE WANT BOSTON(Tea Party)
WE WANT BOSTON (the music band)
Watch out, Luke Murray is building a monster
Peace of Mind is a great song, but those dudes have to be septuagenarians at this point.
Sixers would run them off the floor.
Yeah man, I think… I think I have more than a feeling that you’re right about that
Boston pun thread, nice. Ill be taking my time to think of a reply
They might have had a shot against BC
We want Boston, Georgia!
Sixers fans: “We do want Boston (to please stop curb stomping us)”
We want Boston… to make the endless suffering stop
We were one Embiid away from only losing by <15 😤
no people misunderstood. it was “we want boston” as in their strong organizational development and continued and consistent decision making ability in regards to what’s best for their franchise
LMAOOOOO
Ok that’s actually hilarious. Unbelievable trolling
Funny as hell
Lmao Sixers wanted this
Don’t kink shame them
Very few Sixers fans actually wanted to play the Celtics or thought we’d win this series. Idiots at the play-in chanted some nonsense after our opponent was already set and people are running with it. This was always gonna be a 4-0 series
Always seems silly when people get caught up in these chants. The alternative is they lose the play-in and nobody is chanting “we want Cancun” it’s not like they let the 7 seed choose who they want to play lol
“We want Cancun” would be an elite level chant though
As a hater of both of these teams - that’s pretty funny
Bravo
I mean what else were the 6er fans suppose to say? Them wanting Boston simply means that’s who they’d have to face anyway. So they’re saying “we want to extend our playoffs” basically lol. Let them have it. We’re gonna chant the same shit if we have to face a team waiting for us.
True
But still fun
hahahahaha
Remember that post from a Pistons fan suggesting they just start punching players on the other team? I fear all options must be kept on the table.
just a straight shit kicking. JB is inevitable.
God bless the city of Boston and the great state of Massachusetts
👨🍳😙🤌🏾
We get this and then maybe Boston/Knicks afterwards? lol I love the playoffs
“This isn’t a rivalry, they always kick our ass”
I don’t understand why any Sixers fan would ever want to play Boston
They are so petty. And I love it.
LMAOOO
If every game is a 30 point blowout loss then maybe Nurse and Morey will get fired.
I’d settle for Harris selling the team.
the haters give us such easy bait lmfao
idk why everyone takes “we want X” chants so seriously. it’s just a fun thing when you’re about to face a top team, it’s not some display of arrogance by fans
What makes you think the crowd chanting in Boston was more serious than the Sixers fans?
Seems like they were just having a laugh while rubbing it in their face a bit.
You are correct but Philly fans can kick rocks
Yeah man, I just can’t understand why fanbases that hate eachother would be so emotional…
Why is it light hearted when they do it but not us? Literally the Awww you’re so sweet/ Hello, human resources?! meme
An absolutely great chant. Proud to be part of one the four or five great NBA crowds.
Hey…don’t punch down
Deserved
We still do! (We have a domination fetish)
Look at those poor fuckers, they got Boston
Philly fans deserve it.
Sixers should be embarrassed
This is funny, lmao
Hoping for the cleanest of sweeps with this one.
I love the humor.
Who could have seen this coming?
Diabolical
😂
Be careful what you wish for.
Beautiful
ECF here we come
Nahhh thats crazy, Sixers had it coming
Fuck you reddit app can’t play half the videos
Stop they’re already dead
Without embiid this wasn’t ever gonna be competitive
The confetti game might be singlehandedly the most embarrassing gaffe by a sports team ever.
Boston has a rich history of hating.
I love their culture of hating