Al Horford may still be the key to making the Boston Celtics a top threat to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the East, but the way his team scrapped without him in a 107-100 win against the Chicago Bulls suggests he's hardly the only one.
Horford sat out with a concussion, Avery Bradley received a cortisone shot before the game and Jae Crowder crumpled to the floor after 14 minutes with a sprained left ankle...and the Celtics still subdued the previously unbeaten Bulls.
To do it, they leaned on a roster boasting the kind of youth you wouldn't expect to find on a fringe title contender, not to mention a whole bunch of grimy defense and some timely shot-making from a deep bench.
Bradley suffocated Dwyane Wade, holding him to 15 points on 5-of-13 shooting. When occasionally switched onto Jimmy Butler, he was also up for harassing the Bulls’ best player.
The Celtics got contributions up and down the lineup, with Amir Johnson losing his mind in a 16-point third quarter punctuated by four three-point makes. He finished with 23 points, his highest total since joining Boston last year.
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