In many cases, the lineup a team like the Boston Celtics uses on opening night means little if they have a lot of unsettled internal concerns to work out. But in a lot of cases, it will at minimum tell us things about the philosophy of the team and their style of play heading into a new campaign.
In an effort to collect some information to see what can be gleaned from the starting lineups of all 30 teams in the league for the current 2022-23 NBA season, Synergy Sports’ Todd Whitehead put together a total of 11 visual aides to display the data he collected about the opening night starting lineups around the league to kick off this season. Some are just for fun, but others have clues about the season to come baked in.
The Celtics, of course, were among those teams; let’s take a look at what he found in 10 of them (age and birth year were close enough that we found them redundant).
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