Celtics Defeat Sixers 123-105 at TD Garden on Thursday

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00:00Philadelphia and the Celtics inside TD Garden. Second leg of a home back-to-back for the C's

00:06and even without a ton of their regular starters, Jason Tatum was there. Jason Tatum scored 35

00:13and as the Sixers are without Joel Embiid for the remainder of this season. And last night,

00:18no Paul George, too busy setting up the microphone and his electrical equipment. And Tyrese Maxey,

00:25the Celtics win 123-105 at home, covering as a 13-point home favorite. 34 of the 60 total games,

00:34the C's have been booked as a favorite this year, DRS. As a double-digit favorite,

00:39they cover that number last night, 27-33-1 against the number as a favorite all season long.

00:46I'll tell you what's incredible, right? Because the Boston Celtics beating the Sixers isn't

00:50incredible. It's what they've been doing for the past decade against the Sixers. But having said

00:53that, a two-touchdown favorite at home, like, yeah, that's probably what it should be. Oh,

00:57look at that. You know, they're going full gas with the starting lineup for the Celtics.

01:01Drew Peterson, Luke Cornett, Nemesh Kader were in the starting lineup last night and they easily

01:05dispatched of the Sixers. Now, I get it. The Sixers didn't put out a great lineup themselves,

01:09but that's incredible to see two franchises going in completely opposite directions right now,

01:14particularly in this season. Hey, we're invested, we're battling, we have competent practices

01:19every day, a lot of competition. And if we do start multiple starters and sit them down,

01:24we're fine with going with backup players to beat your lonely, lowly, lowly franchise in the

01:30Philadelphia 76ers. 123-105, I thought this game would actually stay under the total. And looking

01:34at the starting lineups, it probably should have, but you did have 33-33 in that third quarter for

01:39both teams and 26-26 to close it out. That certainly didn't help. But the Sixers, I didn't

01:44think would even approach the 100-point mark. They barely get over it at 105, but that's an

01:48embarrassing loss. Again, the Sixers are tanking, but that starting lineup for the Celtics was like,

01:53this is a preseason basketball game and we still drilled our opponent.