Jaylen Brown and the Celtics demolished a shorthanded version of their greatest rivals, claiming a 126-105 victory over the Lakers on Friday.
Here are the takeaways.
The Celtics are good.
We would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge at the outset who wasn’t in Boston on Friday: Luka Doncic, who was in Slovenia to be present for the birth of his second child. We also need to note that when LeBron James scored on Friday, he was cheered sarcastically, because it was the younger Bronny edition, not his more famous (and, in Boston, more hated) father who spent one of his last—perhaps his actual last—trip to Boston as a player on the bench in street clothes.