Simone: Absorbing 82 games of Celtics success and 7 games of failure taken at The Auerbach Center (Celtics). Photo by © David Butler II

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Simone: Absorbing 82 games of Celtics success and 7 games of failure

By Jack Simoneat The Auerbach Center

Nothing can excuse the performances the Boston Celtics trotted out in their first-round meltdown loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. Four losses full of 3-point misses, adjustments that felt two quarters too late, and an abandonment of the fundamentals that lifted the Celtics to that point.Read More

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