We all know that the end goal is to raise Banner 19 and now we have part of the roadmap to get there.
The Celtics completely outpaced the rest of the league last season with 64 wins, fourteen ahead of everybody in the East and seven in front of the Thunder and Nuggets. When they were tested, they passed with flying colors. When they could have coasted, they didn't.
But this upcoming season is a title defense and that comes with everybody using them as a measuring stick.
Positive Residual ranks the Celtics’ 2024-2025 regular season schedule as the 4th easiest in the league based on travel and rest day advantages, but as Larry Legend once astutely pointed out, everybody has the same number of home and road games.