The New York Knicks are seen as potentially the best team in the East, but the Boston Celtics handed them an L on Tuesday night, which has people talking. The victory wasn’t just a fluke, either, as the Celts have beaten the other supposed “cream” teams of the East in recent days: the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Detroit Pistons.

This got popular Yahoo’s NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor posting to X on Tuesday evening following Boston’s 123-117 victory over Jalen Brunson and the Knickerbockers.

“The Celtics are legitimately good,” O’Connor declared. “They will be obvious Finals contenders when Jayson Tatum returns. Maybe even East favorites.”

When O’Connor speaks, basketball fans listen, so it’ll be fascinating to see how those fans react to KOC’s Celtics statement in the hours to come. Fa

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