The Boston Celtics reached the mid-point of their schedule with Wednesday’s dispatching of the King and his current Court – on just the 77th of the NBA’s 168 playing dates for its extended 2017-18 season.
Let’s take a look at some parts of the statistical trail that Coach Brad Stevens’s squad has left in its wake – some confirming, others confounding.
In nearly 90 percent of those games (36 out of 41), the team that registered more conversions ended up winning. Only once – the Miami loss on Nov. 22 that snapped their 16-game run – did the boys win the conversion battle (48-47) but lose the war (104-98).