In yesterday’s blog, I was very critical of Kyrie Irving, and alluded to the fact that, if Kyrie or one of his teammates dropped 50 on the Celtics, it’d be devasting, but you tip your cap and move on to Sunday.

Well, between them, Brooklyn’s Big Three had 96 points between them, including a pedestrian 16 by lightning rod, Kyrie Irving. What is I told you, Brooklyn was the team who was devastated, and having to move on to Sunday?

See, and this point brings me immense joy, Jason Tatum, one of Boston’s young stars, amongst all of Brooklyn’s swagger and bravado, he dropped 50 and got Boston back into the series with Game 4 Sunday in Boston.

The Celtics withstood Kyrie’s nonsense, an early shooting clinic from the Nets, which included some ball-washing analysis of the Nets from Marc Jackson, ‘that’s some beautiful basketball by KD’, umm Marc? He got open and made a mid-range jumper, kinda easy to do at 7 feet tall and something Durant does all the time!!!! a

Now,the Celtics are back in this series. Tatum and Co. showed Kyrie and the Nets they aren’t done. As a Celtics fan, it feels pretty good this morning. Maybe Sunday will finally be just about basketball.

In other news. The Knicks got beat, they got outplayed. They need to be better in Game 4 against a bigger, louder crowd in Atlanta. The Yankees lost on a tough extra inning homerun. Aaron Boone’s managing comes into question again, electing not to us Aroldis Chapman, instead going with Justin Wilson, who hasn’t been lights out this year.

Be better today, Aaron, be smarter. Another coach in New York, David Quinn went with the ‘everybody plays’ mentality for the New York Rangers, the Rangers were mediocre this year, no playoffs again and Quinn was recently fired. In short, Aaron, don’t be like Mr. Quinn.

Back tomorrow with more NBA and NHL playoff thoughts, and hopefully a Yankees victory and Mets….well Mets whatever if they actually play a game.

Enjoy this soggy Saturday, thank a veteran and enjoy the freedoms we are afforded. Thanks for stopping by and the viewership. Be good to