The Celtics put together an impressive performance without any of their top six players available on Friday, blowing out the Hornets 131-98 in their penultimate game of the regular season.
Here are the takeaways.
1. Before the game, Joe Mazzulla told reporters Sam Hauser, Payton Pritchard and Luke Kornet would start, along with two mystery players. Those two proved to be Svi Mykhailiuk and Jaden Springer.
It’s not clear whether the starters will play at all on Sunday, but our guess would be no, since the cardio benefits would be minimal anyway, given that there will be nearly a week off anyway due to the play-in tournament.