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This season has been an eye-opener for the Boston Celtics. With pupils preoccupied with the C’s title hopes crashing and burning against every Eastern Conference contender, this team showed its true colors in 2020-21.
With two All-Stars on the roster, Boston proved incapable of even avoiding the postseason play-in tournament and will now have to win a one-game playoff just to qualify for the Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
It shouldn’t have been this way. Clearly, something isn’t going right behind the scenes, because a team with this much talent should have achieved more.