Eric Reid saw his opportunity to posterize Brian Scalabrine on Wednesday and took it.
The longtime Miami Heat TV play-by-play guy was on the call for the team’s huge upset victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of their first-round series. Miami rode a franchise playoff record 23 three-pointers to stun Boston on its home floor by double digits, winning 111-101.
In the final minute of the fourth quarter with the game already decided, Celtics fans began streaming for the exits en masse. The Heat broadcast team took note of it, and Reid got in a shot at Boston analyst Scalabrine.
“The curse of Scalabrine,” Reid said of the scene.
You probably recall that Scalabrine, a former Celtics champion-turned-commentator, made a big accusation against the Heat after Game 1, which the Celtics won 114-94.
Reacting to a play in which Miami’s Caleb Martin knocked Boston’s Jayson Tatum to the ground, Scalabrine accused Heat coach Erik Spoelstra of calling for his team to intentionally injure Tatum. Scalabrine received widespread backlash for the claim and backtracked slightly in the following days.
Poetically enough, both Martin (21 points on five treys) and Spoelstra (with his game plan of staying home on Boston’s shooters and then firing away from three on the other end) were massive in the Heat’s upset win on Wednesday.
The Celtics are now 0-1 ever since Scalabrine lobbed his accusation, and Reid was more than happy to point that out.
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