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What the Celtics are saying about their playoff chances after rash of injuries

BOSTON (AP) — Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward exchanged the kind of toothy giggles normally only found between kids on a playground when they were introduced as the new faces of the Celtics.

“It’s about to be crazy, G,” Irving said in the ear of Hayward to a soundtrack of clicking camera lenses as they sat on a dais back in September two days after Boston’s blockbuster trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Seven months later, Irving has proven to be prophetic — albeit not how he had in mind.

It has been crazy unlucky for the Celtics.