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Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks threw color at LeBron James on Sunday after his personnel clinched the No. 8 seed within the Eastern Conference, incomes a bout against the No. 7 Boston Celtics within the play-in tournament.
Brooks jokingly instructed reporters that he notion whoever created the play-in tournament “can even simply restful be fired,” and he agreed with James, who spoke out against the notion that within the beginning up of Could perchance well furthermore as the Los Angeles Lakers tumbled via the standings.
Brooks recovered and instructed reporters that he was once a gigantic proponent of the play-in tournament.
The Wizards claimed the No. 8 seed with 115-110 comeback victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday. The Hornets fell to the No. 10 seed within the East.
“It created so powerful pleasure within the last two weeks,” Brooks said of the play-in tournament. “As every person knows, any time you’d form pleasure and stressful video games within the last 10 video games of the season is enormous for everyone eager.”
The 34-38 Wizards clinched a play-in appearance Friday once they defeated Cleveland, 120-105. After free-falling via the first half of the season (sitting at 14-20 at the All-Wide title destroy), the Wizards gained 17 of their closing 23 video games to cancel the postseason for the first time for the reason that 2017-18 season, once they had been eradicated within the first round.
The Celtics gained the regular-season sequence against the Wizards, 2-1. But where Washington climbed via the standings, Boston was once slipping, and with Jaylen Brown performed for the three hundred and sixty five days with a wrist wretchedness, the Celtics can have even much less offensive vitality within the postseason.
With the league’s leading scorer leading the designate in Bradley Beal joining forces with the NBA’s unique all-time leader in triple-doubles in Russell Westbrook, the Wizards are in upright form to fight their manner out of the play-in tournament.
