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Rapid Recap: Tatum leads shorthanded Cs to defeat shorthanded Hawks as Langford shines

Rapid Recap is designed for the busiest of Celtics fans. Whether you can’t stay awake to read 10 paragraphs or your hangover is just too much, Rapid Recap tells the timeline of the game in only a minute or two.

Hospital Celtics vs. Hospital Hawks. TWO BEAT-UP TEAMS ENTER, ONE TEAM LEAVES. A recipe for kind of a weird and woolly game, and it didn’t disappoint! Wildly back-and-forth, defense-deficient first half, dominant third-quarter-and-a-half by Boston, and then an absurd panic-inducing near-comeback from Atlanta (without Trae Young, no less).

Jayson Tatum knew the mantle of this game was his to carry with Kemba Walker only just returning from injury, and carry it he did (32-4-6 on 52.