Each week during the 2023-24 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
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This week's topic: The Boston Celtics are worth rooting for
This campaign has been a strange sensation for Boston Celtics fans. Everything rides on their playoff performance and has since last year, when they fell behind 3-0 in the Eastern Conference finals, forced a Game 7 against the eighth-seeded Miami Heat and blew a chance to reach a second straight NBA Finals.