K.G. roaming around the yard in his unwashed bathrobe… Ha.
But for the playoffs, Boston stood in the way, and the Celtics are an inexperienced team’s nightmare. They’re a basketball version of Walter Matthau: saggy, cantankerous, frustrating, impossible. During the regular season, the Celtics like to roam around the yard in an unwashed bathrobe, muttering at the birds and threatening to move to Vero Beach. But they sharpen for the postseason, as if covered in magic liniment. Despite the absence of 88-year-old center Shaquille O’Neal, Boston stole Games 1 and 2 with icy last-second shots, and they steamrolled over New York at the Garden in a Friday night laugher.
