The Boston Celtics have among the easier schedules in the NBA for the looming 2023-24 season — Tankathon ranks the Celtics as having the 24th-most difficult schedule in the Association — but NBA Dot Com’s John Schuhmann recently shared that Boston also happens to have another advantage baked into their slate of games for their 2023-24 campaign.

Per Schuhmann, the Celtics “have a league-high 16 rest-advantage games, including seven against the other seven Eastern Conference teams that made the playoffs last season (none against Milwaukee, but two against Atlanta).  They have more rest-disadvantage games (11) than the league average (10.3) but are still one of four teams with a league-high differential of plus-5.”

Given the Celtics’ lofty aspirations of hanging Banner 18 at the end of the 2024 NBA Playoffs, any advantage they can get to help smooth the postseason path via their seeding heading into it will be helpful.

But Boston will need far more than a friendly bump or two from the folks behind the league schedule; thankfully, they appear to be in as good a position as they have to win it all in a very long time indeed.

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