The Boston Celtics are currently weighing their options about how they plan to react to the shooting of Jacob Blake and Game 1 of the second round series between their team and the Toronto Raptors, so it might be a little longer than expected until we see more playoff basketball from our favorite team — and for good reason.
In the meantime, the we can get caught up with the team’s dominant series against Atlantic Division rivals, the Philadelphia 76ers, who Boston swept for the first time in 15 meetings going back decades.
Boston sent a team fishing that defeated them three out of four regular season games in the 2019-20 regular season.
And they did it more than convincingly, having lost veteran forward Gordon Hayward for the series in Game 2 with a severe ankle sprain likely to keep him out of commission until about three weeks from now in even the best-case scenario.
Watch the video embedded above to see the best of Boston’s play against the Sixers in the first round — and support the players in whatever decision they make about playing in Thursday.
Some things are simply bigger than basketball.
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