In case you weren’t excited enough for playoff basketball, the Boston Celtics kindly have provided another reason.
The Celtics are back in the NBA playoffs for the second consecutive season, this time as the Eastern Conference’s No. 5 playoff seed taking on the No. 4 seed Atlanta Hawks.
Their first round series begins Saturday night at Philips Arena, and the C’s got hometown fans hyped by posting a pump-up video on their official Twitter account before game time:
The goosebump-inducing video features a heavy dose of swingman Jae Crowder, who coined the “We’re One Superstar” mantra that Boston has adopted heading into the postseason.
The Celtics will have their work cut out for them, as the Hawks enter the series as slim favorites and beat Boston in three of the teams’ four meetings this season. But the C’s are used to being the underdogs and seem to be embracing that role ahead of Game 1 in Atlanta.
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