First celtics game 2012

You just have to fight through it, and we didn't do that tonight. The only consolation for the Celtics was that, due to a concentrated effort in the fourth quarter, Rajon Rondo finished with 10 assists. That extended his double-digit streak to 34 games, the third longest in league history, but required Boston running a bizarre small-ball offense for the last several minutes designed strictly to get him assists.

The funny thing was that the harder we tried, the worse we got at it. Sullinger finally made the effort pay off, hitting a jumper with 51 seconds left to give Rondo his tenth assist, although Boston still trailed Leandro Barbosa immediately went to the scorer's table to take Rondo out of the game. Rondo acknowledged that the end of the game had been a bit strange, but didn't feel bad about it.

I wasn't born when Magic had his streak, and I wasn't watching yet when Stockton had his. Meanwhile, the Celtics could certainly use another body, with nine players set to miss the team's Christmas Day game against the Milwaukee Bucks due to health and safety protocols.

Boston traded Walker to the Oklahoma City Thunder over the summer in a deal that brought Al Horford back, but he was subsequently waived and signed with his hometown Knicks after two up-and-down seasons with the Celtics.

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