It is evidently the right moment to update the record books for fans of the Boston Celtics, with their favorite ball club poised to make history with their home record, and the team’s starting point guard, Derrick White, already in the thick of setting defensive records for guards while helping push Boston into that heretofore unchartered territory.
The Celtics, for their part, are a win shy of tying the team’s all-time record for consecutive home wins with a 16th home victory notched after Boston narrowly defeated the Toronto Raptors on Friday night. That record was set to start the storied franchise’s 1957-58 NBA season, the only season the Celtics did not win a title between the season prior and 1966-67 (they did make it to the NBA Finals, though — h/t MassLive’s Brian Robb).
On White’s end of the equation, the Colorado native is in the midst of a string of games in which he has blocked more than one shot for seven consecutive games.
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That has not been done since a young Michael Jordan did so for the Chicago Bulls in 1987, according to Statitudes’ Justin Kubatko.
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