This story first appeared in Court Sense, a biweekly Celtics newsletter from Boston Globe Sports. Click here to join the fun. And Erik Spoelstra has some sort of deal with the devil that allows him to keep the Heat competitive in literally any circumstances.

The Celtics finally cooled off on Wednesday night after a season-high nine game winning streak. With some potential playoff opponents coming into focus and a promising Boston bench development taking shape let’s examine some intriguing questions in this week’s mailbag.

Boston Celtics point guard Payton Pritchard good deal with converse the company announced Thursday. Pritchard joins Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Kelly Oubre Jr. as Converse grows its group of NBA athletes.

Tonight is a virtual must-win game for the Suns - as are the remainder of games due to Phoenix trailing both the Dallas Mavericks and the Sacramento Kings for the final two spots in the play-in tournament.

The Celtics have had no trouble dominating their road trips throughout the season, but it's the first game back home that's given them issues.

If there is anyone who knows Sam well in terms of on and offcourt existence, it is his sister. And Sam and his brother Joey recently took some time to sit down with their sister on their shared podcast,

The Celtics will try to avoid losing back-to-back games at home for the first time this season when they face the visiting Suns on Friday night.

The eventual value of the storied ball club could rise to as high as over $7 billion by the time the two-tiered deal is done.

During his time suiting up for the Celtics, Kelly wore only jersey Nos. 14 and 24 and put up 6.0 points per game.

Emptying my reporter’s notebook while wishing all of our local scholastic sports teams the best of luck as the spring season gets underway this week.