Six months later the Eastern Conference Finals are here and we have the matchup that most expected as the Boston Celtics take on the Cleveland Cavaliers. It’s been a long, strange journey to get here. When these teams played on opening night, we had visions of them meeting in May with a shot at the NBA Finals on the line. But neither team looks a whole lot like the group that opened the 2017-18 NBA Season way back in mid-October. As Jeff Clark wrote: We’ve seen these teams play before, yet we’ve never seen this matchup.