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Marcus Smart on Game 5 win: ‘The confidence for us right now is high’

Marcus Smart is back.

After missing over a month of basketball due to a torn ligament in his right thumb, the Celtics guard returned to the court for Game 5 against the Bucks at the TD Garden Tuesday evening. Smart played 25 minutes off the bench, scoring nine points and grabbing five rebounds.

But as coach Brad Stevens noted before tip-off, a stat sheet “won’t tell the story of Marcus Smart.”

Within a minute of checking into the game, Smart was already on the floor after diving for a loose ball— one of his favorite things to do on the basketball court — after poking it away from Bucks guard Matthew Dellavedova.