Early 2025 NBA championship odds: The only thing that can stop a Celtics dynasty is the Celtics

Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum finally reached the NBA’s mountain top Monday, completing a 4-1 series win over the Dallas Mavericks to claim the Boston Celtics’ first championship since 2008.

You can argue they should have won sooner after reaching the conference finals in five of the previous seven years.

Those past shortcomings are why some will consider the Celtics a hard team to trust moving forward, even as they’re set to return most if not all of their key pieces from this year’s run.