June 19, 2024
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Boston Wins NBA Championship
Tiffani Penson to Kick Off
Her Campaign for Portland
City Council, District 2
Host Committee Includes
Former State Senators
Margaret Carter
and Avel Gordly
Portland, OR – Tiffani Penson
will kick off her campaign for
Portland City Council District
2 (North/Northeast Portland)
next Wednesday, June 26.
Event details are:
What:
Tiffani Penson Campaign Kickoff
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum hold, center, up the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy as he
celebrates with the team after they won the NBA basketball championship with a Game 5 victory over
the Dallas Mavericks, Monday, June 17, 2024, in Boston. (AP/Photo/Charles Krupa)
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since Bill Russell in 1969 to
lead a team to a championship.
“You have very few chances in
life to be great,” Mazzulla said.
Luka Doncic finished with 28
points and 12 rebounds for Dal-
las, which failed to extend the
series after avoiding a sweep
with a 38-point win in Game
4. The Mavericks had been 3-0
in Game 5s this postseason,
with Doncic scoring at least 31
points in each of them. He said
the chest, right knee and left an-
kle injuries he played through
during the finals weren’t an
excuse for Dallas struggling
throughout the series.
“It doesn’t matter if I was
hurt, how much was I hurt.
I was out there,” he said.
“I tried to play, but I didn’t
do enough.”
Kyrie Irving finished with just
15 points on 5-of-16 shooting and
has lost 13 of the last 14 meetings
against the Celtics team he left in
the summer of 2019 to join the
Brooklyn Nets.
Irving thinks better things are
ahead for the Mavs.
“I see an opportunity for us to
really build our future in a posi-
tive manner, where this is almost
like a regular thing for us and
we’re competing for champion-
ships,” he said.
NBA teams are now 0-157 in
postseason series after falling into
a 3-0 deficit.
Mavs coach Jason Kidd be-
lieves Doncic and his team
will grow from this NBA
Finals experience.
“I think the first step is just to
be in it. I think that’s a big thing,”
he said. “Yes, we lost 4-1, but I
thought the group fought against
the Celtics and just, unfortunately,
we just couldn’t make shots when
we had to, or we turned the ball
over and they took full advantage
of that.”
Boston never trailed and led by
as many as 26, feeding off the en-
ergy of the Garden crowd.
Dallas was within 16-15 early
before the Celtics closed the first
quarter on a 12-3 run that included
eight combined points by Tatum
and Brown.
The Celtics did it again in the
second quarter when the Mav-
ericks trimmed what had been a
15-point deficit to nine. Boston
ended the period with a 19-7 spurt
that was capped by a a half-court
buzzer beater by Payton Pritchard
– his second such shot of the se-
ries – to give Boston a 67-46 half-
time lead.
Over the last two minutes of the
first and second quarters, the Celt-
ics outscored the Mavericks 22-4.
The Celtics never looked back.
Russell’s widow, Jeannine
Russell, and his daughter Karen
Russell were in TD Garden to
salute the newest generation of
Celtics champions.
They watched current Celt-
ics stars Tatum and Brown earn
their first rings. It was the trade
that sent 2008 champions Kevin
Garnett and Paul Pierce to Brook-
lyn in 2013 that netted Boston
the draft picks it eventually used
to select Brown and Tatum third
overall in back-to-back drafts in
2016 and 2017.
The All-Stars came into their
own this season, leading a Celtics
team that was built around tak-
ing and making a high number of
3-pointers, and a defense that rat-
ed as the league’s best during the
regular season.
The duo made it to at least the
Eastern Conference finals as team-
mates four previous times.
They finally reached the fin-
ish line in their fifth deep play-
off run together.
After both struggling at times
offensively in the series, Tatum
and Brown hit a groove in Game
5, combining for 31 points and 11
assists in the first half.
It helped bring out all the at-
tributes that made Boston the
NBA’s most formidable team this
postseason – spreading teams out,
sharing the ball, and causing hav-
oc on defense. And even chipping
a tooth, like Derrick White did
after he was landed on by Dereck
Lively II.
“I’ll lose all my teeth for a
championship,” White said.
And it put a championship
bow on a dizzying stretch for
the Celtics, that saw them lose
in the finals to the Golden State
Warriors in 2022 and then fail to
return last season after a Game 7
home loss to the Miami Heat in
the conference finals.
Tatum vowed that night to erase
the sting of those disappointments.
Standing in a sea of confetti
Monday night he was reminded by
his 6-year-old son, Deuce, of what
he’d accomplished.
“He told me that I was the best
in the world,” Tatum said. “I said,
‘You’re damn right I am.’”
When:
Wednesday, June 26, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Where:
Mildred Hall, 5138 NE 23rd Ave.
Who:
Tiffani Penson, co-hosts and supporters
Host Committee: Earline Penson Bagley, Senator Margaret
Carter, Senator Avel Gordly, PCC Board Director Dan Saltzman,
PCC Board Director Kien Truong, Faye Burch, Kira Cador, Kellie
Courtney, Kelly Cress, Antoinette Edwards, Keith Edwards,
Marcus Mundy, Serena Stoudamire Wesley
Tiffani is focused on forging stronger, more inclusive
communities, which she does as an elected Portland Community
College Board Director and in her role as the City’s People +
Culture Manager. Her track record of implementing meaningful
change across Portland’s complex, city-wide bureau system
is unmatched. Tiffani champions Portland’s Core Values of
transparency, fiscal responsibility, and access to opportunity,
steering pivotal programs that open doors for all. From her
ground-breaking efforts supporting minority, women, veteran,
and emerging small businesses to leading youth employment
engagement initiatives, the impacts resonate city-wide across
all bureaus and communities.
Tiffani has plans to make Portland safe and livable, to house
our neighbors, to strengthen our economy and ensure a skilled
workforce, and to craft a City budget that is accessible and
accountable.
Community members planning to attend the campaign kickoff
should email info@TiffaniforPDX.com to confirm attendance.
Visit www.TiffaniforPDX.com to learn more about Tiffani.
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