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The Boston Celtics have won 17 straight games now have a 25-2 Standing in the Eastern Conference. The defending World Champions have been winning all season beating teams. The impressive 17 game winning streak tonight the Chicago Bulls had an opportunity to see how good the Celtics are. Celtics win 126-108 at home. In a laugh, the Celtics jumped all over the Bulls in the beginning of the 1st and 3rd quarters outscoring Chicago 31-19 in the first and 41-27 in the 3rd. How good are the 2008 Celtics? The Lakers have the All Time winning streak at 33. Speaking of the Los Angeles Lakers, the Western Conference Champions were defeated by Miami 89-87. Coach you ought to be ashamed of yourself to get beat by the Miami Heat after destroying them last season. Are the Lakers as good as the Celtics is the question? Friday Night before Christmas, the Celtics are playing better basketball, and their standing proves it.
Friday Nights Game versus the Bulls check out the numbers and how impressive the Celtics plus and minus are with Ray Allen +30 scoring 27 points, Perkins at +25 scoring 25 points and Kendrick goes 12-15 on the field goals, Pierce +20 scoring 16 points, Garnett +21 scoring 17 points, Rondo +25 scoring 4 points, and off the bench for the Celtics Brian Scalabrine goes +10 scoring 5 points. Then look at the Chicago Bulls, obviously they did not have better things to do on a Friday Night with numbers like Deng -28, Derrick Rose -26, B Gordan -12, and D Gooden -11 points totaling -77 points. The Celtics schooled the Bulls tonight, and the plus/minus prove it. The Boston Celtics score points the old fashioned way, they earn them. The team plays very unselfish basketball adding 40 assists as a team, Rondo with 15 of them. The Celtics go 59.5% FG's, and 14-17 at 82% at the free throw line.
The Celtics defeated by Indiana November 1, 2008 95-79, since then the Celtics are on Fire going on a 17 game winning streak. Houston, Oklahoma, Milwaukee, Detroit, Toronto, Atlanta, Denver, Milwaukee again, New York, Detroit again, Minnesota, Toronto again, Golden State, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Orlando, Indiana gets beat 114-96, Washington, New Orleans, Utah, Atlanta again, and Friday Night Chicago. The Celtics on that 17 winning streak have been beating teams, and have New York and Philadelphia before playing the Lakers Christmas Day. The Celtics lead the Eastern Conference with a 25-2 standing leading the East by 3.0 games to Cleveland's standing. The Celtics are 15-1 at home, 10-1 on the road, 4-1 in the division, and 18-1 in Conference. How good are the Boston Celtics, Inquiring minds want to know, I want to know.
(ref yahoo.com sports page on stats for the Boston Celtics)
This 17 game winning streak is very impressive and that team is bad Coach Rivers doing a fine job there in Boston playing excellent basketball and obviously the team to beat in the NBA right now. The Boston Celtics 17 game winning streak is the big story in sports.
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