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Boston Celtics: 3 surprise breakout candidates for 2020-21

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The Boston Celtics come into the 2020-21 season with high expectations, and there are a few individual players the Houdini believes surpass their own.

Despite coming up short in the 2020 NBA playoffs and reletively underwhelming this offseason, the Boston Celtics are still seen as one of the top teams heading into the regular season, placing No. 6 overall on NBA.com’s recent power-rankings list.

When rostering the likes of All-Stars Jayson Tatum & Kemba Walker, potential 2021 All-Star Jaylen Brown, and the Swiss-Army man himself, Marcus Smart, their lofty expectations should not come as a shock to anyone.