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The first half of the 2020-21 season has now concluded for the Boston Celtics. Record-wise it is easy to look at the team’s campaign and conclude that it has been a disappointing run in 2020-21 after three Eastern Conference finals appearances in the last four years.
That said if you told the Houdini that Boston would be sitting behind the Milwaukee Bucks (owners of the east’s best record the last two seasons), the Brooklyn Nets (owners of perhaps the league’s second-best duo coming into 2020-21, now owners of the best big 3 in basketball) and the Philadelphia 76ers (who acquired front office ace Daryl Morey and former Boston Celtics championship coach Doc Rivers in the offseason) at the half-way mark of the season…I’d say there are stranger things happening in this world–such as a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic that is keeping fans out of arenas to even see these games unfold.