The Celtics have now lost three of their last four, this one to a Philadelphia 76ers team whose Big Three has barely shared the court together. But it wasn’t Paul George or Joel Embiid who killed the Celtics. Instead, it was the diminutive Tyrese Maxey who consistently blew past his defenders and got two feet into the paint, where he either finished an increasingly absurd array of layups or sprayed out to Philadelphia’s eager — and uncharacteristically accurate — shooters.
(Side note: May you never find someone who hates you as much as Caleb Martin hates Boston.