WE’VE SEEN ENOUGH OF GALLO, STEPH IS SPECIAL & IGOR WORTHY HEIR APPARENT TO KING HENRIK ...

Who did the Celtics think they were playing in Game 1, the Nets?

You know another reason why the Celtics are this close to a title and the Nets are as far away as ever?

The Celtics have Brad Stevens running their basketball operation and the Nets don’t.

Through Thursday’s doubleheader, Joey Gallo had 23 hits this season.

We are no longer talking about too small a sample size with Gallo.

He had played nearly 100 games with the Yankees at that point, and still wasn’t hitting .200.

Even though Steph Curry has played this long, and played on the best team of this era, I still love hearing that there are guys in the league replicating what he can do.

No, they’re not. There’s his range, and everybody else’s, and that includes Trae Young at his best.

Because of that range, Curry has changed the way the game looks as much as anybody who has ever played it in the NBA.

The way Dr. J once did above the rim.

Rafa Nadal goes for his 14th French Open title today, and just the 13 he has won on the red clay at Roland Garros is as great an achievement as any athlete has ever had in any individual sport.

And if he does get to 14 on

Sunday, and his 22nd major, then he makes it even more official that he, and not Fed and not Djokovic, is the GOAT in men’s tennis.

And you know something else?

I’m not sure Djokovic is some kind of lock to ever get to 23.

The chance Rob Thomson gets now that he’s replacing

Joe Girardi is a chance that Thomson has earned, and much deserves.

“James Patterson by James Patterson,” the autobiography by my friend and co-writer, goes on sale this week, and I can tell you that it is an absolute blast.

So many people who’ve read an advance copy keep saying the same thing, and happen to be right:

Jim’s best story really is himself.

Has there ever been a time when Shohei Ohtani pitched at Yankee Stadium when the Yankees didn’t give him a tour of Beatdown City?

I have realized something over the past month, and that is how much I missed going to the movies.

I shouldn’t have to keep pointing this out about Chris Kreider, but he keeps proving that you really can never go wrong with a Boston College man.

There has never been much more of a tough act to follow in hockey in New York than Henrik Lundqvist.

But Igor Shesterkin has showed how you’re supposed to do something like that, and mightily.

The biggest and best voices from sports, and that means all sports, have to continue to talk about gun violence and gun reform.

Every week of every season of every year.

I keep asking this, but will ask it again today:

How in the world does Deshaun Watson not get suspended for part of the upcoming season or all of it by Roger Goodell?

How cool is it that Ray Romano is going to play Jimmy V?

Has Kyrie Irving weighed in yet on congressional redistricting?