CHICAGO -- Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge knows what it's like for a No. 1 seed to drop the first two games of a series against an eighth-seeded opponent.
Ainge was in the latter stages of his playing days in 1993 when his Phoenix Suns rallied from a 2-0 deficit to top the Los Angeles Lakers in a best-of-five first-round series. The Suns went on to make the NBA Finals before falling to the Chicago Bulls in six games.
Nearly a half-century later, Ainge's Celtics became only the second top-seeded team under the NBA's current seeding format to lose twice at the start of a series.