BSJ Daily Briefing 03.14.18: Let free agency (officially) begin

Good morning! A few scattered thoughts to start the day: 

• NFL free agency finally is done with the tampering period and gets underway officially today, even though it feels like it's been going on for weeks already. Lots of tough blows for the Pats yesterday with Danny Amendola, Malcolm Butler, Dion Lewis all out the door. Nate Solder is the name to watch today.


• Celtics will be making their return to the Garden floor tonight and they will do so without at least five rotation players as Kyrie Irving, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, Daniel Theis and obviously Hayward are all out. Brad Stevens is going to have to get pretty creative to find enough scoring with a remaining roster that's more than 50 percent rookies.


• Another day, another win for the Bruins. They are just four points back of Lightning with two games in hand. That top spot in the division isn't out of reach.

Bulls send all five to the glass, Clippers send all five back. Clippers still get the ball back. pic.twitter.com/rzQ53eLuwM

— Stephen Noh (@StephNoh) March 14, 2018

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