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Article: IT'S JUST A MATTER OF MINUTES IN GAME 4, THE CELTICS' STARTERS SHOWED THAT THEY ARE IN IT FOR THE LONG RUN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 12, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Larry Bird hears the question and laughs. "How many times
have I told you?" he inquires. "I can play all day. DJ can play all
day. Minutes don't mean nothing."
Easy for you to say, Larry. Don Nelson still can't believe
what he saw on Sunday afternoon's stat sheet. The numbers jumped
out at him under the minutes column: Bird 56, McHale 56, Johnson
54, Ainge 51. "It's just amazing to me," Nelson said, shaking his
head, "that they can play that caliber of ball with those kind of
minutes. I can't figure it out."
The longer the season goes, the more the subject of playing
time occupies newspaper and air space. Nelson isn't the only one
who wonders how the Celtics do it. People just aren't ...