The Orlando Magic's season is on the line tonight when they take the TD Garden court to face the Boston Celtics in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. A loss, and they're finished until the fall. A win, and they come back to Orlando for Game 5 on Wednesday. Surprisingly, most of you prefer the Magic face the indignity of a sweep than the indignity of potentially losing Game 5 at home; the lesser of two evils, I guess, is the sweep. I'm not sure. At this point, Orlando doesn't have any adjustments to make. Play harder, play smarter, play better. No strategy is going to force the Celtics to double-team Dwight Howard, for instance. Boston's extraordinary defense has dictated everything in this series. And on the rare occasion where the Magic's offense manages to get someone open, like here, when a Rashard Lewis screen frees Vince Carter coming off a curl? Nothing happened. Because the Magic have, for the most part, checked out. Carter says he expects the Magic "to go out there and fight" tonight. And maybe over the last few days the Magic found some fight, in which case the series could indeed return to Orlando.

2010 Eastern Conference Finals
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Boston Leads, 3-0
May 24th, 2010
TD Garden
8:30 PM
ESPN
Probable Starters
Jameer Nelson	PG	Rajon Rondo
Vince Carter	SG	Ray Allen
Matt Barnes	SF	Paul Pierce
Rashard Lewis	PF	Kevin Garnett
Dwight Howard	C	Kendrick Perkins
Series Results
May 16th: Celtics 92, Magic 88
May 18th: Celtics 95, Magic 92
May 22nd: Celtics 94, Magic 71
Game Officials
Scott Foster
Bob Delaney
Derrick Stafford
Series Central

You'll forgive me if I have difficulty focusing on this game. A bulk of the chatter in the comments here, and in my email box, has revolved around the offseason, so I've already shifted into that mode. CelticsBlog is playing the "It's Not Over" card, but let's be serious: Boston will win this series sooner or later. The issue is when, not if.

Anyway, discuss Game 4 here.