PHILADELPHIA — The pacing of basketball at its finest often resembles a boxing match. When a game of runs and momentum swings suddenly grinds into a slugfest, the two sides trading haymakers until one victor is left standing.
The Sixers and Celtics are no strangers to that dance. A pair of postseason clashes in 2018 and 2020 still linger on the periphery of their Atlantic Division rivalry. All three of top-seeded Boston’s wins this season over Philadelphia have been decided by single digits, the latest being Saturday night’s 110-107 win.
“It’s an understanding. We all know what we have,” Al Horford said. “This is the first time we’re at full strength all year. We all have to make sacrifices. And every night we have so much depth that it can be anyone, any night, stepping up and doing it and we’re playing for something bigger than getting numbers individually. We’re trying to get wins and we’re trying to do it as a group, and I think tonight was a good example of that.
“Team. Team, team, team,” Tatum said. “Can’t harp on that enough. We have such a deep team, we can afford one or two guys having an off night.”
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