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Celtics 91, Heat 72

Celtics’ win vs. Heat gives playoff hopes life

Rajon Rondo’s triple-double and a strong 3d quarter help Celtics beat Miami

Funny how a team can look so dramatically different, so increasingly confident, and so poised given its tumultuous road to this point. The Celtics began their treacherous three-week stretch toward perhaps the final postseason of the Big Three Era looking as if they had not spent the previous three months dealing with a series of embarrassments, humiliations, and setbacks.

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