COMMENTARY
Elevating themselves like Blake Griffin bounding out of the time machine for a wait-he-can-still-do-that? tomahawk jam, your Boston Celtics haven’t so much been playing basketball games lately as they have been putting on breathtaking clinics on how basketball games ought to be played.
The standings and statistics tell some of the story. The Celtics are an NBA-best 17-4 after Monday night’s 140-105 zapping of the Charlotte Hornets at TD Garden, during which the hosts pogoed to a 45-19 after the first quarter and dropped 78 points in the first half despite playing without Jaylen Brown and Al Horford on the second night of a back-to-back.