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Smart understood the significance of the sequence, but when reciting it afterward he mostly shrugged. He is on this team for moments like that.
“I just felt like I needed to make a play,” he said, “and it was right there for me to make.”
The 47-plus minutes that preceded Smart’s steal had importance, too. It was a rare instance in which the Celtics were operating with all of their top players on the court together.