I'm taking the week off, but I'm not leaving you hanging. In honor of NBA playoff season, I'm rerunning my conversation with Jake Issenberg, co-host of the Celtics podcast First to the Floor.  There's even a new intro where I reveal how Jalen Brunson is ruining my marriage and tease upcoming episode topics.

Jake and I dig in on rivalries. What team is the biggest Celtics rival of all time? What exactly makes a fanbase hate another franchise with the heat of a thousand suns? Does intimacy breed contempt? Why do we love overachievers so much?  And perhaps most importantly: Is this the year the Celtics finally break through?

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