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As Joe Mazzulla starts his second Celtics playoff run, Erik Spoelstra knows a thing or two about the experience

Erik Spoelstra drew some laughs when he answered a question about how much he had improved from his first playoff run to his second one.

Spoelstra, 51, shouldn’t have had that hard of a time remembering because he’s not that old, he joked.

“People think that the first playoff run with our coaching staff was with the Big 3,” Spoelstra said. “It wasn’t. We had two playoff runs before that but we were knocked out in the first round so people weren’t really paying attention.”

The Celtics had plenty of attention last year during Joe Mazzulla’s first playoff run last year.