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Your daily rundown of what's going on with the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and Revolution, and what's about to happen, for BSJ members only ...
• Well, now. That was the kind of Boston Sports Day that made the hell of March-May (well, some of it) kind of worth it.
• First you had the Patriots back on the practice field in pads, and Bill Belichick screaming at people. Oh, the sweet sounds.
• Then you had the Celtics having a mostly easy time with the Sixers ... got a little tense there in spots, but the Celtics should have won in a blowout. Jaylen Brown is looking good.
• Then you had the Bruins sleepwalk through the first two periods. You figured, "Typical series stuff ... they're easing up, ahead 2-1, it will be a best of 3 and they'll win."
• And then Jake DeBrusk made an unbelievable hustle play, and Charlie McAvoy laid a hit that you could feel through the television and sent Belichick scrambling for the phone ... and the Bruins scored 4 straight to go up 3-1 in the series.
• Outside of the Dead Sox, it was a phenomenal sports day.
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1:30 p.m.: NBA
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What a hit from Charlie McAvoy. pic.twitter.com/HTJSrNjcMz
— Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) August 18, 2020
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