BOSTON – Mea culpa, Celtics.
I was wrong.
Really wrong.
When the NBA season resumes on Thursday, Boston will take the floor in Brooklyn 4 ½ games out of the top spot in the Eastern Conference. This is, of course, not to say the Celtics are poised to make a run at the No. 1 seed—Boston is just six games ahead of 11th place Washington—but evidence that, with 22 games to go, this Celtics team is pretty good.
Now who saw that coming?
Not me. In December, I was ready to declare this Celtics season a wrap.