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Dec 17, 2008 – 1:02 PM
After taking the Celtics to seven games in the playoffs last year and losing by a single point in Boston last month, the Hawks have convinced themselves that they can hang with the NBA champs. And with the Celtics coming to Philips Arena tonight for the first time this season, they're doing their best to convince everyone else, too.
The video above featuring highlights from last year's playoffs is what greets visitors to the team's official website -- as Marc Spears pointed out in the Boston Globe, "if you didn't know better, you would have though the Hawks won the first-round matchup."
The team has also booked the rapper Ludicris to provide halftime entertainment, which to me sets off a red flag. I know he's a hometown guy, but still, when you're booking a better halftime show in December than the league usually does for their All-Star game, you're taking things a little too seriously.
Ease up, book the girl that rides a unicycle and balances bowls on her head and act like it's just another game, because in the big picture, it is. There's no need to rile up the NBA champs until it really is the playoffs.
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