 time for Chevrolets 4th Central Update. Giannis Antitocopo avoiding a major injury according to multiple reports. His left Achilles tendon is fully intact and the Bucs stars return to play will depend on how quickly his left calf strain heals. But he is going to miss the remaining three games of the regular season. He's going to receive daily treatment. Giannis left last night's victory over the Celtics in the third quarter after crumpling to the floor while grabbing at his left leg. The Bucs have already reached a spot in the playoffs though. Their seed is yet to be determined. The Bucs hold a one and a half game lead on the Orlando Magic and New York Knicks for the number two seed in the Eastern Conference. The Bucs were already on shaky ground. The injury to Giannis Antitocopo is like a bulldozer. Further clearing the path to the finals for the Celtics between the Bucs injury and chemistry issues. You got the Knicks who are banged up. Joel Embiid's playing on like one good knee in Miami. It's a team that's once the finals or bust for the Celtics. There is no good reason this team should not plow its way through the Eastern Conference to face the winner in the West for the NBA title. There is an argument to be made that not winning it all would be disappointing but not a failure for the Celtics. I disagree but the arguments are sound. There is no argument that anything less than a finals appearance would be an epic failure for this Celtic squad. It would be a complete fail end of story. The path is paved. It's time for a story line presented by Fnatic Sports Book. You can earn up to 5% fan cash on your bets, spend fan cash on jerseys, fan gear, bonus bets and more plus get a personalized offer every day with power hour rewards. Scan the QR code on the bottom right of the screen to download the app. Here are the odds to win the Eastern Conference. I just call it the Celtics Conference because that's kind of what it is. Celtics minus 160. It's still plus 350, Philly plus 750, Caps plus 1100, Miami next and plus 1200, Nix just below that at plus 1500. Welcome in the guys. Instead of what I was going to, we got Phil Perry, we got our Celtics insider Chris Forsberg joining us by zoom. Okay, so I think that there are very few threats in the Eastern Conference now including the Bucks but we ask both of you for your top 5 biggest threats in the East. Forsberg, you want to read your list or do you remember your list? Do you have it? Do you want to just tell us who's on her? Help me out. Let me go through. There was a bunch of asterisks on it but I believe I've had. There are a lot of asterisks. You got Bucks. You got Bucks. Yep. But if Yanis is healthy. If Yanis is healthy. Yep, there you go. There you go. You got it. 76ers, if indeed is healthy. Heat, if Tyler Hero is healthy. Nix, if OGN and Nobby is fully healthy and that's where the magic in there for fun because they have been a pest in past seasons but they're out like this is pretty obvious. They're really good and there's no reason they shouldn't be in the NBA finals. All right, so there are Chris's 5 biggest competitors in the East. Time now for the big board built for America built forward proud. Here are Phil's top Eastern Conference threats to the South Fix. He's doing a little drum roll here. Look at that. Southex are first. Milwaukee is second. Philly is third. Nix are fourth. Indiana, fifth. Miami not even making the list. I feel like you just sort of made this list to make it, Phil. I'm not sure you believe any of those other guys. What are you talking about? Indiana Pacers, the way they play, the pace with which they play. If they get hot and the Celtics get cold, that's a threat. Jalen Brunson to me, one of the best guards in basketball. I know Julius Randall is hurt, but the Nix are a real threat. The 6ers you've got a former MVP, the Bucks you've got a former MVP. Those are all legitimate threats. The heat, get out of here with the heat. Chris Forsberg, their time is done. Caleb Barton's not there to get away from his witchcraft anymore. They're a different team. Jimmy Butler's another year older. I actually want the Celtics to face the heat, because number one I think they beat them pretty soundly. And number two you just get past that boogeyman. They're in your rearview mirror and you don't worry about them. The number one threat to the Celtics not winning the Eastern Conference is the Celtics themselves. It is the easy answer. I am stunned the Celtics didn't make Chris Forsberg's list because he has been as critical as anyone of how they have handled late game situations. I'm kicking myself now. That was a brilliant move. Checkmate, Phil Perry, you picked it. We say this every year though, don't we? That the only team that can stop the Celtics is themselves and every year the Celtics kind of get in their own way. I'm with you, right? Like roll it back to 22. The turnovers the running out of gas because you went too long on series last year. Too many long series. So when I hear Jim Azul on the radio today talking about having to take care of series early is not messing around having that game last week where they sort of dummied up a close out game. Look, they're aware of their own shortcomings and like feel like I go back to it. You're 100% correct. It's almost disrespectful to say there's a threat list in the East that goes beyond the team itself. Yeah, I mean but it's that way because even though they've talked about it before Chris they haven't been able to get over that help. I do wonder though and I'm not even sure I believe this question that I'm asking but the 76ers have been pretty good since Joelle and Bede came back and I know that the 76ers It's the 6ers. I know but at some point is it going to... Okay, let me put it to you this way, Forestberg. People probably say about the Celtics, it's the Celtics. They always find a way to manage to shoot themselves in their own foot just like the 76ers do. Isn't there a time or a place when both will one or both will get over the hump? No. I'm sorry, I just have no faith in the 6ers. Maxi's had a really good year and Bede on one leg isn't enough and I think that's what it ultimately comes down to is when we sit here and we say like oh like you'd have to catch lightning in a bottle if you're a team like the Heat again you'd have to be fully healthy even if you're the Bucs who have had some success here in the regular season against the Celtics to me it just comes down to the Heat, like the other teams just have too many glaring weaknesses that the Celtics can exploit and in a series they will hone in on them and so yeah, like is the potential there for the Celtics to make their lives more difficult than they need to be and could that eventually catch up to them in the NBA finals against a good team? Absolutely. But no, I just can't look at the rest of the East, it's not a threat. The Yanis injury is such a big factor in all this training, especially because it looked like Yanis and Lillard and that pick and roll really sort of found something in the last few weeks here and you worry about that in the postseason and I also, if I'm the Celtics, while I agree with Chris, they're really deep, we know they're really talented, where they don't have a ton of depth is in the front court and if Chris Stapp's poor Zingus, we've been saying it since the moment he was acquired, right, if he stays healthy, if he stays healthy, if he stays healthy, he's been able to stay healthy for the most part you just always have that little bugaboo line, oh boy, if this guy goes down, that really changes who they can be come the postseason. And to Joe Missoula's credit, he has done a good job of making sure Chris Stapp's poor Zingus stays healthy and managing him in the right way, which obviously it's not all that difficult during the postseason because there's more off days, but it is still a challenge and a grind if you get into seven games series.