1. The Boston Celtics lost by two on the road at the Philadelphia 76ers in a game where they could have sewn up the 2-seed in the Eastern Conference and kept a little pressure on the Milwaukee Bucks for the 1-seed.
Oh well.
That might seem an odd attitude to have, but this hardly feels like one of those crushing defeats. And it’s certainly not one of those “What the heck happened?” losses to a bad team either.
Boston played without Jaylen Brown and Rob Williams and it took an absolutely monster effort from Joel Embiid for Philadelphia to win.