The unbeateable Celtics

Monday, May 5, 2008 02:15 PDT

If you only watched Game 7 of the Boston Celtics-Atlanta Hawks series, you'd have to conclude that the Celtics are a spectacularly great basketball team, even if you knew that the Hawks are a 37-win bunch that really didn't have much business in the playoffs.

You could even have that idea if you'd seen Games 1, 2 and 5 as well.

The Celtics won that final game Sunday 99-65, and the old joke here would be that the game wasn't as close as that score would indicate, but this is one of those times it wouldn't fit because the Celtics never coasted. They poured it on, playing as though it were a tie game long after the Hawks spit the bit, which they did early in the third quarter when Marvin Williams tackled Rajon Rondo on a breakaway and was ejected.

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