By STEVE KING

What would John Havlicek think?

Up in heaven, what is he thinking now after watching his Boston Celtics get punished – absolutely, positively punished, humiliated, embarrassed, crushed – by the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals?

The Bucks ran the Celtics out of the gym, winning the best-of-seven series 4-1 with a clinching 116-91 victory on Wednesday night.

After losing to the Cavaliers in seven games in the Eastern finals last year, and with Cleveland having been emasculated with the loss of Lebron James last summer, the Celtics came into this season as the clear favorite in the conference. But they never came together all year, and then against the Bucks, they came completely apart.

The Celtics did so with a black No. 17 patch on their jerseys in memory of Havlicek, the former Boston great who passed away recently. But that was actually a slap in the face of Hondok, who always played with such heart, whether it was at Bridgeport (Ohio), Ohio State, where he was a key member of its 1960 national championship team, with the Browns, with whom he spent the 1962 training camp and preseason after being selected in the seventh round of the NFL Draft that year, and finally with Celtics during all those championship seasons. This bunch of Celtics played with no heart. They gave up.

I’ve had those same kinds of thoughts as the Browns have gone through this nightmarish expansion era, especially in the 2016 and ’17 seasons when they were a combined 1-31. What were those old Browns thinking? What were the members of the 1948 Browns, who had a perfect 15-0 season, thinking as they looked down at the 2017 Browns as they were perfectly imperfect at 0-16?

The Browns and Celtics are both proud franchises. The present-day Celtics are at a crossroads. The present-day Browns are on the upswing.

Let’s see how both teams do going forward.