2.02.2009

Easy Schedule Aids Celtics Quick Start

1990-91 Boston Celtics
Remembering the 29-5 Start
11/26/1990

HARTFORD They have no say in whom they play. And how can they be blamed for Hot Rod Williams getting hurt? Or Atlanta becoming an implosion-in-waiting before November was through? Or New York playing like the Nets at home?

The Celtics have the best record in the Atlantic Division and only Portland has fewer defeats in the league. They've won six straight and the schedule only gets better in the next 12 days.

And it hasn't been all that brutal up to now. Only four of Boston's 12 games have been against teams that held winning records at tapoff time. This week, there are three more candidates for easy pickings that could quickly turn an already impressive 10-2 record into an even more eye-opening 13-2.

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