The Boston Celtics are currently projected to win 65 games this season, the most they have been on track to win since the NBA’s 2007-08 season in a recent article by The Athletic’ Zach Harper. Remind us again, how did that season end? Ah, yes — Banner 17 and duck boats!
But, alas, the games still need to be played — both now and in the postseason — before we can truly get that excited about how good this team is. But it is a fact that Boston is currently “almost on pace to match the 2007-08 Celtics, who won the title thanks to Kevin Garnett and company, for the third-best record in team history,” which happens to be 66-16.
“Boston has already surpassed its over/under projection, could likely lose the rest of its games and still end up with the best record in the East,” adds Harper, underscoring how much of a wagon this ball club is, 30-point collapses or no. “That’s how far ahead of the field the Celtics are.”
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“They’re still winning when they throw Luke Kornet and Sam Hauser into the starting lineup,” writes the Athletic analyst. “The Celtics are a machine right now and have increased their pace from 63 wins to 65 wins since mid-January.”
Their net rating may have taken a hit vs. the Atlanta Hawks, but we’re pretty sure the kids are all right, as it were.
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