Finally … a chance for all of us to catch our breath.

The Boston Celtics endured a gauntlet of games to start the 2025-26 season, playing 13 times over 22 days. That included a brutal stretch with five games in seven nights, then culminated Wednesday with the team’s third back-to-back of the young season .

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For the first time in the new campaign, the Celtics have multiple days off, and that feels like a good chance to take inventory on what we’ve seen as part of the team’s 6-7 seesaw start.

The good news: Boston has a +4.1 point differential that ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference and 11th overall in the NBA, even if it’s aided by a couple of blowouts inside TD Garden. The bad news: The Celtics have a league-w

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