The Celtics beat the Sixers 117-107 Wednesday in an impressive victory with both Jaylen Brown and Kristaps Porzingis on the bench.
Here are the takeaways.
1. Other players had bigger nights, but whenever the Celtics beat the Sixers, it feels appropriate to start with Al Horford who remains perhaps the most enraging part of the Celtics-Sixers rivalry for Philadelphia fans. Sixers star Joel Embiid looked grumpy and disengaged throughout the game, and against Horford, that sets him up to fail since Horford knows his tricks very well at this point and is less likely to be baited into fouling.