Despite their status as the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, the Celtics remain an unfinished product, and their time is not yet here.
But if the C’s are able to close out their second-round series with the Wizards in tonight’s Game 7 at TD Garden, the core pieces of this team — many of whom have been here since the beginning of the post-Big Three rebuild — take that next step towards proving that their time is closer than the current NBA landscape would suggest.
“Every game in the playoffs is a big game, but this definitely means a lot for us as a team,” Celtics guard Avery Bradley admitted at practice on Sunday.