Celtics hottest NBA team last 10 games: Where do they go from here?

Celtics 9-1 last 10 games, right up there with League-leading Phoenix Suns, also 9-1.

After a disappointing early season, the Celtics have balanced the performance equation over a 10-game span:

Celtics team = Sum of its parts

That's a lot better than what we saw in the past few months:

Celtics team < (less than) Sum of its parts

The Green have won seven in a row, even better than the Suns' five in a row. And the Celts did that with basically the same crew that started the season.

Now they have jettisoned a number of players that were not seeing a lot of floor time, or in the case of Josh Richardson and Dennis Schroder, were not seen as long-term pieces of the Boston puzzle. In their place, the team has 6'8" German center/forward, Daniel Theis, and 6'4", do-everything combo guard, Derrick White. It will be interesting to see if the additions and newly-found energy can yield the following equation and a deep playoff run:

Celtics team > (greater than) Sum of its parts

So the question is - are the Celtics a .900 team as seen over the past 10 games, or are they the.489 team Boston fans weathered prior to the streak? The answer lies between the extremes. White had an encouraging debut on Friday, and we have not see the return of Theis yet.

Whether the seemingly-adept maneuvering by Brad Stevens over the past several days will project Boston into the playoff limelight remains to be seen, but things do look bright heading forward.

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