Celtics Roll Out Bizarre Starting Five Against Magic

The Boston Celtics are rolling out a starting five on Sunday that looks like a video game simulation where the user accidentally let the computer handle the rotation.

According to Underdog NBA, Boston is officially starting Derrick White, Gonzalez, Paul George, Jayson Tatum, and Neemias Queta against the Orlando Magic.

"Updated lineup alert: Celtics will now start White, Gonzalez, George, Tatum, Queta on Sunday."

The Celtics are coming off a 125-111 win over the Chicago Bulls and sit with a healthy roster, but this rotation is still a trip. White is quietly putting up 11.8 points and 5.8 assists per game, while Tatum and George provide enough wing firepower to make any opposing defense reconsider their life choices.

Throwing Gonzalez and Queta into the mix with three elite perimeter guys is the basketball equivalent of putting premium unleaded in a 1998 Honda Civic. You know the engine is going to run, but you are definitely confused about the overall investment strategy.

For anyone staring at the prop markets, this is the kind of chaos that swings unders and overs. With standard rotation guys shifting around, the usage rates for Tatum and George are about to look like a 2006 Kobe Bryant box score.

Boston tips off in Orlando on Sunday night. We will find out very quickly if this five-man unit is a stroke of matchup genius or just a regular-season experiment that gets scrapped by the second quarter.