The Atlantic division has looked like three beads on a string for weeks, each team maintaining the distance between them as adeptly as the Boston defence does. There have been teases of movement, but it’s never come. If Boston surges so do the rest of us, and the equilibrium is maintained.
Right now the spread in points is 104 - 99 - 93, and while Boston has their perpetual games in hand still to be played, as Florida is learning: Games in hand only count if you win them. The results are unlikely to change, although it is possible, to be sure, or we wouldn’t watch the games.