Boston Celtics ‘arguably the best NBA team in 2022,’ per The Athletic’s Zach Harper

Boston’s dominance is getting harder to ignore by the game.

The Boston Celtics are moving up the assortment of NBA power rankings released each week by various outlets to assess the weekly zeitgeist of the league with aplomb, finally believers in their own exceptional basketball abilities in a way that has made them almost unstoppable on the court.

And so is elevated their projected ceiling, with many accomplished NBA analysts ranking the Celtics among the league’s true contenders for the 2022 NBA title. Rightfully skeptical Zach Harper of The Athletic was among the slower of such writers to drink the Boston (presumably green) Kool-Aid for much of the season, but can now be counted among Celtics believers, a major reason why detailed in his most recent entry on Boston’s power rankings in The Athletic.

“Over the last year, we’ve seen Jayson Tatum drop 50 points four times in a game,” he begins.