consistently trailing behind was the Los Angeles Lakers

And that’s a fact.”

Bryce Hird

Both teams found themselves in the Finals multiple times, seeing victories and losses

The teams had seen another shift in players. Boston had strong athletes like Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett. Los Angeles had Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, and Kobe Bryant.Celtics started off with a two-game lead, and this momentum led them to a 4-2 victory. The team needed this after a 22-year streak of occasional final places, but zero NBA Championships.The next two years the Lakers saw the Finals. 2009 they won against Orlando Magic, but that was only practice for the upcoming war. In 2010, the Lakers and Celtics once again had a fierce battle in the Finals.

has gone on

delayed by leadership changes at the condo association, financial concerns and the burdens of managing a massive construction project

“To me it’s pure negligence and incompetence at the highest level,”

“In my experience, I have never seen anybody wait almost three years like they did,

“The fact that two-and-a-half years went by and nothing had been started yet shows that things broke down,”

The condo’s owners association had known for two-and-a-half years about a flaw in the original construction and major structural damage caused by water and salt infiltrating the concrete and eating away at the steel inside, a common problem in coastal buildings, documents show. But they failed to fix it.

And yet these rules did not prevent last week’s

Another possibility is improperly installed piles, he said.One last theory under consideration is the possibility that heavy construction next door in 2019 could have damaged the Champlain Towers building. An email released by the city on Sunday revealed that a member of the condo board had gone to the city for help at the time, expressing “concerns regarding the structure of our building.”

A previously reported academic study showed that the entire coastline in the area of the building has been settling, or sinking, at the rate of a couple of millimeters a year. But the deep piles would have provided stability, Mr. Peraza said.

could

could

“would suggest a foundation-related matter — potentially corrosion or other damage at a lower level.” But he said it was not certain that corrosion was the culprit, and added that “you certainly can’t rule out a design or construction error that has survived for 40 years.”

Structural engineers were shocked that a building that had stood for decades would abruptly crumble on an otherwise unremarkable summer night.

“It would be like a lightning strike happening,”

“progressive collapse,” the gradual spread of failures could have occurred for a variety of reasons, including design flaws or the less robust construction allowed under the building codes of four decades ago, when the complex was built.

Possible

“It’s extraordinarily rare for a building like that to collapse, especially in the U.S.,” Fred Bloetscher, a professor of civil engineering at Florida Atlantic University, told The Post Saturday. “We have extensive building codes used by engineers with built-in factors of safety. This just doesn’t happen here.”

“It’s less likely than a lightning strike,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told reporters Friday. “It just doesn’t happen. You don’t see buildings falling down in America.”

is unlikely to happen again

Prof Wdowinski said the research was not meant to suggest certainty about the latest incident.

The building consultant's report from three years ago came to light in a series of documents made public by the town of Surfside.

Correspondents say it is not yet clear if the repairs were carried out or if the problems highlighted contributed to the structural failure.

The engineer, Frank Morabito, said the lack of proper drainage was "a systemic issue" that stemmed from a flaw "in the development of the original contract documents".

'major damage'Published26 June 2021

the public's growing desire to be done with mask mandates and other restrictions

Most Americans say COVID is no longer a crisis

Axios/Ipsos poll; Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios

This Axios/Ipsos Poll was conducted April 8-11 by Ipsos' KnowledgePanel®. This poll is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 1,043 general population adults age 18 or older.

The margin of sampling error is ±3.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, for results based on the entire sample of adults.

The father of Venus and Serena Williams said Monday he condemns violence a day after Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony — and then won an Academy Award for playing him in the movie “King Richard.”

weighs in

“The record-breaking trajectory of applications and enrollments illuminates

Jim Clark

FSU continues to shine

likely does not amount to market manipulation and is protected speech.

likely to outweigh the need to identify the anonymous posters.

Free speech protections offered by the First Amendment will likely protect many, if not all, of the anonymous posters on WallStreetBets from claims of market manipulation.

As a law professor who teaches classes on the First Amendment, I find the law’s lack of clarity on this issue fascinating.

GameStop, the video game retail chain, saw its stock rise as much as 1,800% in January 2021 after fans, who believe the stock was unfairly devalued by large investors, championed the stock’s purchase.

Some public health experts

Biden was both more positive and more measured on the pandemic than in his first address

The administration plans to provide antiviral drugs on the spot — 1 million pills in March and double that in April

“COVID-19 need no longer control our lives,”

delivering his address in a chamber full of lawmakers not wearing masks