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Justin Quinn

Celtics secure East’s second seed to close 2021-22 NBA season; will face Nets or Cavs in 1st round

The Boston Celtics secured the Eastern Conference’s second seed for the 2022 NBA playoffs Sunday night with their 139-110 blowout win over the Memphis Grizzlies’ reserve players. Memphis rested its starters in anticipation of a deep run in the 2022 NBA playoffs.

A little more than halfway through the fourth quarter, Boston deployed the reserves to get its starters additional rest, comfortable that they’d secured the East’s second seed and a matchup with the winner of the current seventh and eighth seeds.

This means the Celtics will face either the Brooklyn Nets or the Cleveland Cavaliers, who will face each other in the play-in tournament to earn the seventh seed.

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