The Celtics just beat the Knicks so badly that Grimace is now a Bostonian

Saturday’s beatdown of the New York Knicks was probably the most I’ve laughed while watching a Boston Celtics game all season. Well, maybe not as much as I did on ring night, which was also against the Knicks.

The Knicks, by the way, were the team that many felt had put themselves on the Celtics’ level over the summer when they acquired Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges.

New York has now played and been humiliated by the reigning champions twice.

It was evident right from the very first bucket of the night that it was going to be Boston’s game, despite being without both Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday.

Jayson Tatum’s loud dunk over Precious Achiuwa accounted for the first two of his 40 points at Madison Square “Garden.”

The Knicks were in shambles trying to stop Boston’s superstar forward. He lit them up from just about everywhere on the floor and went nuclear at the most crucial part of the game — the third quarter. New York had cut the Celtics’ lead down to just three in that frame and then Tatum and Derrick White decided that they’d seen enough.

I mean, look at this.

Tatum meticulously attacked Mikal Bridges (five first-rounders, btw) or whichever Knick had the misfortune of trying to check him. He made five straight shots in the closing minutes of the period and absolutely broke the Knicks and their fans.

The Tatum/White combo combined to score 33 points in the quarter, helping Boston increase the difference back to 20 points heading into the fourth.

The Celtics comfortably closed this one out behind a strong final stint from Payton Pritchard. After helping the team build their initial lead in the first half with 14 second-quarter points, he essentially gave the Knicks a replay of the whole thing in the fourth. Pritchard iced the game by sinking four of his five attempts en route to 11 fourth-quarter points.

Of course, there was this laugher, which served as the knockout blow.

By the end of the night, New York fans were booing, Celtics fans were making themselves heard, and any semblance of confidence had been ripped away from the Knicks.

Oh, and Grimace is officially a Bostonian.

“Do you mean the McDonald’s mascot?”

Yes, I mean the McDonald’s mascot.

The same people who would’ve had a championship parade (Bing Bong) on Saturday out in the snowstorm, had their Knicks beaten the Celtics, have adopted the purple monster as their own after he helped the Mets turn around their 2024 season.

Grimace threw out the first pitch at Citi Field on June 12. Up to that point, the Mets had been underwhelming, to say the least. Then, all of a sudden, they were winning games and eventually won their way to the National League Championship Series.

People went crazy over Grimace. There were Grimace costumes in the stands, on the subways, and there was even a Grimace seat dedicated at Citi Field.

Fast forward to earlier this week, when McDonald’s began promoting their annual limited-time offering of the “Shamrock Shake.” This year, they decided to bring back Grimace’s supposed uncle, “Uncle O’Grimacey.”

Apparently, O’Grimacey used to be a regular in McDonald’s ads back in the day, but I’d never seen nor heard of him before he popped up on my Twitter/X timeline this week.

O’Grimacey’s emergence couldn’t really come at a better time. He was the perfect trade deadline acquisition for the Celtics and it rules that there’s an Irish/Celtics themed version of the adopted New York mascot.

It’s a real shame that Grimace rides with the Cs now.

Bing bong.