What happens if the celtics win

The Celtics won two of three matchups with the Wizards during the regular season. The two teams last met on Feb. Jaylen Brown was out for Boston in that game with left knee soreness, and is out for the postseason as he recovers from wrist surgery. Washington guard Bradley Beal averaged CBSN Boston. A bubble dictates that no crowds, media, and possibly even family are to be with the team throughout the remainder of basketball activities.

Basketball takes place all across the world, on the street courts of local parks, or pick up games at a local gym. This concept can resonate with the purist in us, yet, in practice, the spectacle is what draws our attention.

Fan interaction and entertainment value will be sucked out of that vacuum. Furthermore, the size of the bubble is now a topic of discussion. Should the season resume where it left off and incorporate all NBA rosters? Or does the NBA jump straight to the playoffs, effectively halving the number of players required to reside within a said bubble? Scientifically speaking, the most reasonable assumption is the NBA goes with the latter and opts to jump straight into the playoffs, using the current NBA standings to dictate seedings.

Jumping to the playoffs is the most sensical option. While skipping directly to the playoffs seems unfair, Cinderella stories scarcely happen in the NBA and a team outside of the current playoff picture is highly unlikely to have made waves in the post-season anyway. In a recent piece , Tim Bontemps and Brian Windhorst explained how the college style format would result in almost no rest days in this abbreviated format. On top of that, returning from a long layoff and then being thrust back into daily high-level basketball is not conducive to presenting aesthetically-pleasing basketball.

The league would be asking its players to go full bore after spending the last three months in quarantine. Playing within this bubble also removes homecourt advantage and any semblance of the vibrant environment of the playoffs. As Professor Parquet highlighted earlier this week , the Celtics have both overcome the odds on the road or been fueled by the Garden crowd in some of their biggest games in history.

Imagine if the Celtics won this proposed playoff tournament. Does this banner produce the same pride as those won by Celtics legends of the past?

An ankle sprain will not prevent Langford from playing his ninth game this season. He's averaged 5. Richardson is questionable for Saturday's game against the Cavaliers due to right knee tendinopathy.

Richardson has a sore knee heading into the second game of a back-to-back. The veteran has had plenty of up-and-down performances this season, and while the Celtics haven't been able to rely on him to score, he's still seeing Langford is probable for Saturday's matchup against the Cavaliers due to a right ankle sprain.

Langford should be good to go Saturday despite spraining his ankle on the front end of a back-to-back. Horford is questionable for Saturday's matchup against the Cavaliers due to lower back pain. Horford is dealing with some back soreness ahead of the second game in a back-to-back set.

Brown hamstring is out Saturday against the Cavaliers. Brown will unsurprisingly remain out Saturday, but coach Ime Udoka implied he could return at some point during the road trip.

The Celtics ' next game is Monday against the Cavaliers. Smart produced 19 points FG, 3PT, FT , six rebounds, six assists and three steals across 42 minutes in Friday's overtime victory over Milwaukee. Smart has been a polarizing player for Celtics fans so far this season, but Friday's performance was easily his best since the season opener. His 19 points were good enough for a season high. He accumulated most of them during a scortching third-quarter stretch.

It is unclear how long Jaylen Brown hamstring will be sidelined, but the veteran Smart will continue to have an opportunity to produce more than usual while he is. Schroder recorded a season-high 38 points FG, 3PT, FG to go along with eight rebounds, three assists and one steal across 41 minutes in Friday's overtime victory over the Bucks.

Schroder came out of the gates hot in this one and never looked back. He's averaging Until the latter returns, the combo-guard figures to continue taking advantage of the opportunity for more usage.

Brown hamstring will join the Celtics on the team's upcoming road trip and coach Ime Udoka has not ruled out the possibility of him playing, Clevis Murray of The Athletic reports. It seems unlikely that Brown will play Saturday in Cleveland. However, Monday against the Cavaliers or Wednesday against the Hawks is in line with the early end of his return timetable. It's possible we learn more in the coming days, but fantasy managers in weekly lineup leagues may have a tough decision to make.

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