The Celtics have slipped out of the number one seed (for now) behind the Milwaukee Bucks. In either spot, the team will be facing a team coming out of the play-in tournament. So we won’t know for sure who we’ll be playing till the season is over.
Of course that doesn’t mean we can’t speculate and look at the odds. The great Sean Grande put this together.
Five weeks out, an always enjoyable waste of time, is projecting the Celtics 1st round opponent.
Using Basketball Reference's projected standings, here are the March 12 chances:
Miami 27%
Atlanta 26%
Toronto 12%
Brooklyn 9%
Washington 8%
Chicago 7%
Indiana 6%
NY 4%
Cleveland 1% pic.