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What We Learned from the Spurs loss to the Celtics

Away games to the Celtics are always a bit special to me. I can still remember the first time I saw a Celtics home game – strictly speaking, a 90-minute game recap with commercial breaks, because that’s what we got on German television twice a week back in 1993. The Celtics lost the game to the Pacers. It was in November, only a few months after their star wing Reggie Lewis had tragically died. You could only feel sorry for the Celtics: Their future was gone; their past was still there. A 40-year-old Robert Parish was still starting (26.