Michigan State's Xavier Tillman Sr. and the Boston Celtics won the 2024 NBA championship with their Game 5 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Monday.
Michigan State men's basketball product Xavier Tillman Sr. and the Boston Celtics won the 2024 NBA Championship on Monday night when they defeated the Dallas Mavericks in Boston.
You can read all you need to know about Tillman and his team's run to the title by purchasing SI's digital commemorative NBA championship issueTillman joined the Celtics in the middle of the season when he was traded by the Memphis Grizzlies, the team who selected him in the second round of the 2020 NBA Draft.
Boston finished the regular-season with the NBA's best record and would cruise through the playoffs, losing just three games in total. The club earned its 18th title in franchise history, the most of any NBA organization. Memphis finished with the second-best record in the Western Conference in the 2022-23 season before being bested by the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the playoffs.
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