ATLANTA -- The sight of confetti is typically a welcome one at the end of a basketball game -- not during it.
But with just more than a minute remaining in the first quarter of Sunday's opening-round playoff game between the Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics, there was a brief pause because so much of it fell from State Farm Arena's rafters.
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Several pieces of small, white paper appeared to drop early in Game 4 from the large video board that hangs above the court.