The Boston Celtics are cruising along relatively nicely as they seek to defend last season's NBA championship. Joe Mazzulla's team is 31–14, good for second in the Eastern Conference—though it will take something pretty dramatic to close the six-game lead the Cleveland Cavaliers have opened up. The Celtics are currently 10–9 in their last 19 contests, which caused Get Up's Mike Greenberg to ask Tim Legler whether Boston is still a prohibitive favorite to win the East.
"There's no doubt they're vulnerable," Legler said. "They're vulnerable for a variety of reasons. One, it's how good Cleveland is, like they're legitimately a team that is going to give Boston fits if they play eventually in the conference finals, which I think they're absolutely headed there on a collision course to do that. But they're also vulnerable because of the way they let you guard them some nights with their propensity to take early, quick threes and not make you guard them through the shot clock."
