Blake Griffin and Payton Pritchard met at a Los Angeles Clippers game when Pritchard was just 16 years old before they knew they’d end up teammates on the Boston Celtics.

The Celtics’ longest active streak of consecutive games played came to an end Sunday. Backup guard Payton Pritchard was ruled out for Boston’s road matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers because of an illness,

Pritchard didn’t — or couldn’t. When the February trade deadline approached, Pritchard asked to be traded. The front office made calls to try to honor the request, team sources