In the interest of mixing things up a little bit, we’re starting something new here at CelticsBlog for the second half of the 2021-22 NBA season: the CelticsBlog Player of the Week. It’s a weekly award, published on Mondays, highlighting a stand-out player from the previous week’s games. We’ll talk about what made them the choice, go over stats and highlights and pick a signature highlight from that player for each week.
Let’s discuss the ground rules. For the purposes of this segment, you (the reader) and I are simply going to agree to skip the debate over whether Sunday or Monday is the “real” start of a week. This column’s week, such as it is, will start on Monday, and count all games through the end of play on the following Sunday. In this case, that means for our inaugural award, we’re looking at three games from the previous week: Tuesday’s blowout against the Kings, Friday’s let-down against Atlanta and Saturday’s win over the Pelicans.
It also…
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at CelticsBlog – All Posts…