The Celtics dropped a bad loss to the Wizards on Tuesday, falling 130-111 to a Wizards team that was without Bradley Beal, Kyle Kuzma and Daniel Gafford.
Here are the takeaways.
1. There are games throughout the course of a season that get forgotten but affect the standings disproportionately, and Tuesday’s loss — which joins a surprisingly lengthy list of losses that could reasonably be described as “embarrassing” — has the potential to be one of those games.
The Wizards don’t matter much at this stage in the season — a little too bad to sniff the play-in game, a little too good to be a favorite in the sweepstakes for Victor Wembanyama.