{"id":403020,"date":"2011-04-27T20:53:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T20:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/27\/celtics-practice-await-opponent-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T20:53:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T20:53:22","slug":"celtics-practice-await-opponent-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/celtics-practice-await-opponent-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics practice, await opponent (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.8725868726\">\n<p>BOSTON (AP)\u2014The <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/bos\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a> are trying to improve their own game while waiting to find out who they\u2019ll face next in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>They practiced Wednesday for the first time since completing a four-game sweep of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/nyk\/\">New York Knicks<\/a> in the opening round on Sunday. Their next opponent will be the winner of the Miami-Philadelphia series. The Heat will take a 3-1 lead over the 76ers into Wednesday night\u2019s Game 5 in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Celtics coach Doc Rivers said the long break between games allows him to run practices similar to training camp, when he\u2019s not preparing for a particular opponent.<\/p>\n<p>He said center <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/847\/\">Shaquille O\u2019Neal<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/847\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> won\u2019t practice until Saturday at the earliest. Right leg problems have limited him to 5 minutes, 29 seconds of playing time since Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/a3d72e3ccb01d0abd44.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nba\/SIG=11kl53f4e\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/news?slug=ap-celtics\" title=\"Celtics practice, await opponent (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celtics practice, await opponent (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BOSTON (AP)\u2014The Boston Celtics are trying to improve their own game while waiting to find out who they\u2019ll face next in the playoffs. They practiced Wednesday for the first time since completing a four-game sweep of the New York Knicks in the opening round on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Celtics practice, await opponent (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/celtics-practice-await-opponent-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Celtics practice, await opponent (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"BOSTON (AP)\u2014The Boston Celtics are trying to improve their own game while waiting to find out who they\u2019ll face next in the playoffs. 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