The Celtics really should complain to the league office about this schedule, though. This is such non-sense, and it's all so the NBA can make an extra buck with the London game.
Houston has literally played six fewer games than us, but they give us Houston on national tv on the second night of a back to back.
So I’ve heard this before but haven’t been paying attention. What’s the London game? And does this mean that we still won’t get the rest we deserve due to travel?
No, we have pretty much a second All-Star Break surrounding our January 11th game in London against Philadelphia. We literally play one game in 10 days in that stretch, which is the London game.
That's the major reason we've had such a packed schedule in 2017, because they needed to give us a break both before and after the London game for travel reasons.