The Eastern Conference's second-seeded Boston Celtics and seventh-seeded Atlanta Hawks meet in the first round of the 2022 NBA playoffs. Boston won the teams' last first-round playoff meeting in 2016.
All the while, the Hawks continued surveying the trade market for John Collins and Bogdan Bogdanovic to no avail. Dealing Kevin Huerter over the summer did their shooting efficiency no favors and failed to uncork a bottleneck of frontcourt players who either just got paid or will be soon. De'Andre Hunter could supplant Collins at the four. Onyeka Okongwu is the center in waiting behind Clint Capela.
It was enough to make you wonder if Snyder could mold all that talent into one unit in time to make noise again in the playoffs. Then, you remember how they blotted out every other bright spot throughout the year.The undermanned Celtics waxed the Hawks in their first two meetings, and then handed them another defeat in the regular-season finale when most anyone of import rested. Boston shot a combined 41 of 88 from distance in victories on Nov. 16 and March 11, both without Robert Williams.
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