We've all seen the post game interviews over the past few weeks. The Celtics will pull another one out, increasing their winning streak to 'X+1' and there will be a semi painful interview, with one of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen or Kevin Garnett needing to answer the inevitable "What do you think about the Celtics' X game winning streak?"

Their answers are always the same; they play it off one way or another, with bites like: "We don't look at stuff like that", or "Its just another win.", or maybe they'll try to be funny and say "We've won how many? Wow!", but at all times the message is the same: We don't care about these wins. We only care about the wins that start in May.

But as this number gets bigger and bigger, the same old song and dance wears a little bit thin. You know every guy in that lockerroom knows how many games they've won in a row. You know they all knew what the record was for best team with only 2 losses. When they'd only won 9 or 10 in a row, they could pretend they didn't know, and we could pretend like we believed them.

Now we're working on #19, and its starting to get a little bit ridiculous. Example A below:

Oh come on Boston Celtics. "Doc Rivers says he's never once heard the players talk about the streak, not even once, not even in the huddle! He doubts his players are aware they've won a certain number of games in a row!".."Rajon Rondo says: 'You know what? It doesn't matter at all.'"

Now Im all for a good cliche but this is ridiculous....or is it??

At first I thought it was funny. What if the Boston Celtics were so focused on winning that they neglected to notice almost everything else around them? But since I'm no Seinfeld, that amusment soon gave way to annoyance, because my team was now nothing more than a common sports cliche. So I watched the video again, out of bitterness and I noticed something. First, these Celtics must be one of the least fun interviews to do of all time, but second, I don't care either.

Who cares how many games these guys have won in a row? That's not what Boston Celtics basketball is about. Nobody is going to hoist Kevin Garnett or Paul Pierce into celestial status just because they got hot during a win streak. You know what our Boston Celtics do? We END other teams win streaks (see: Houston, 2007-2008). We don't care about quirky stats like win streaks. Everyone knows those are just a nice combination of good play and probably better luck. We care about winning enough games in order to guarantee home court advantage during the playoffs and finals. We care about winning playoff series, and we care about winning championships.

But in a funny way, it helps this streak. It helps it because unlike a struggling Grizzlies team that gets a little bit of extra mustard because they won four games straight, we already have all the condiments we need. We want a championship, we know the best way to get that is to get home court advantage. In order to get the advantage we have to have the best record in the league, and with the way the Cavs, Lakers and Magic are playing, thats no small task. If these Boston Celtics want to guarantee Home Court, and the best chance at another chip, they've got to treat almost every game like a must win situation.

So I guess what I'm saying is, no, of course these guys don't care about how many games they've won in a row. That's stupid, who would care about a thing like that. No, these Celtics care about going out every single game against every single team and giving 100% and winning every darn one of them, because that's what winners do, they don't take nights off.

Now if they manage to somehow string a fair number of those wins together for some quaint little record, well all the better I suppose. But that's not why they do it, just ask them.