Let's talk about the Boston Celtics or, to be more accurate, what's left of the Boston Celtics.

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I'll start with this very simple question.

How, like, this team has been pretty like, I don't know if aggressive is the right word, but they've managed their players' health down the stretch of seasons. They've been so far ahead and they go, okay, you take a day off and you take a day off and you take a day off. How liberal are those rests going to be for the complete opposite reason this season? Like, we already know Jaylon Brown's had knee issues and knee surgery. Derek White is 30 plus and who knows how long he's on the table, whatever they're going

to do, right?

How aggressive is this team going to be in not playing their players?

That's an interesting question because I haven't even thought about that much.

But I think they're just going to go with the normal just the normal rotation the normal

minutes the norm like just nothing special I am curious to see how it goes when we get to

march yeah that's February post you know I mean like that that's going to be where this question really kicks in

if the Celtics are a 500 team and in the mix and they're going to be a playing team no matter what

then they'll just keep on going I think and, and just, hey, whatever happens happens.

I, yeah, I think them being a 500 team, John, is, is hard to, it's hard to see, to be honest.

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