Celticvs-Heat Game 7

You normally don’t get sports days like this until the fall, but Saturday June 9 has the potential to be a hallmark day for sports fans. You can start it up in the early evening with the Belmont Stakes, and then in prime-time witness a potential Stanley Cup clinching win and Game 7 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals. Here at TheSportsNotebook we’ve already previewed the Belmont Stakes and while the Cup clinch is exciting, let’s face it—there’s still not a lot of suspense over who’s going to win it. Therefore, while I might be a biased Celtics fan, completely consumed by this game (I finished listening the songs “Nothing Else Matters” and “It’s All About Tonight” while researching the material you’re about to read), I think the case could be made to an objective fan that Boston-Miami for a spot in the NBA Finals is the event of the night. And since TheSportsNotebook prides itself on historical perspective, let’s take a look at the last seventeen times a Game 7 in the conference finals has gone down, and see where tonight’s game might ultimately fit in the pantheon…