Article: IT'S JUST A MATTER OF MINUTES IN GAME 4, THE CELTICS' STARTERS SHOWED THAT THEY ARE IN IT FOR THE LONG RUN

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 ...

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