Look, I don’t support scoreboard watching. But we’re all going to do it anyway, so let’s have the talk now and be safe about it.
I’m a big believer in superstitions, which means I feel like I’ve participated in every Celtics game I watch. Like most supernatural beliefs, that’s obviously lunacy, but the wheels really fall off when we get to the final week of the regular season, and I begin trying to manipulate seeding to give the Celtics the easiest path through the Eastern Conference.
This is also known as scoreboard watching. It’s a brilliant exercise in driving yourself nuts, considering one cannot control nor even usually understand the specific tiebreaker situations, merely left to craft their perfect set of outcomes and then cross all fingers and toes.