Game 2 in the first-round series is Tuesday night in Boston. s in the rear of the building when he became engaged in a verbal altercation with a 25-year-old male, whose name is also being withheld. ”“What may undo him are the mental and emotional factors, both his ability to control that fierce competitiveness as well as how much it burns him out mentally. As always with the NBA, there are some teams that are essentially eliminated before opening tip, and.