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When the regular season began, the Celtics were widely considered by basketball pundits as the favorites to represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals.
Fresh off a season in which they were one strong quarter away from advancing to the sport’s grandest stage – and with Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward back and LeBron James no longer in the picture – the Celtics appeared to have all the pieces in place to play deep into June.
To this point, however, the season hasn’t unfolded at all as Boston hoped it would.