Most teams playing without four of their best players wouldn’t have much of a chance to beat a tough team on the road on the second night of a back-to-back.
As the Celtics have shown since the midway point of last year, though, they’re built differently than most teams — that applies in the sense that they’re “built different,” as the kids say, but also that they truly are built differently.
This roster is absolutely the deepest in the NBA. While the individual pieces are certainly outstanding, the sum of the parts is really what makes the Celtics special.