The Celtics bounced back from their loss to the short-handed Lakers with a blowout 131-91 victory over the short-handed Grizzlies on Sunday.
Here are the takeaways.
1. The biggest story, of course, was not a 40-point drubbing of a catastrophically undermanned Grizzlies team (which we will get to in a minute), but rather one of the players sitting on their bench: Former Celtics guard Marcus Smart, who is out for at least another month with a finger injury but still made his TD Garden return and was given a lengthy tribute video and a huge standing ovation.