Missing three starters? Back end of a back-to-back and third game in four nights? No problem in The Windy City with the Celtics beating the Bulls 124-113.
Since the tail end of their west coast road trip, the Hospital Celtics haven’t fielded their preferred starting lineup over the last nine games. With Jaylen Brown, Kristaps Porzingis, and Jrue Holiday all nursing nagging injuries and Boston comfortably in the lead in the East and the league overall, head coach Joe Mazzulla started with Derrick White, Jason Tatum, Sam Hauser, Al Horford, and Luke Kornet.
Those absences haven’t seemed to matter over the team’s now nine-game win streak.