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Coming into the 2020-21 campaign, if someone were to have told you that, through 52 games played, the Boston Celtics would find themselves barely holding onto a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and be slotted behind the likes of the Charlotte Hornets and Atlanta Hawks in the standings, you would have laughed in their face.
However, sometimes reality can be more bizarre than one’s own imagination and, even with our own lowly season predictions, not even we would have expected the Cs legitimately being at risk of taking part in the play-in tournament come year’s end.