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Game 1 | Celtics 92, 76ers 91

Celtics rally past Sixers in Game 1

Garnett and Rondo lead the way

By Frank Dell’Apa

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 13, 2012

Doc Rivers did not mean his reference to performance-enhancing substances literally. And it did not take Rivers telling his team the Philadelphia 76ers were “Atlanta on steroids’’ for the Celtics to know they would be in for a physical confrontation in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

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