WALTHAM  –  Whether it’s Doc Rivers, Ray Allen or Kevin Garnett, everyone associated with the Celtics is capable of understanding the challenge of them in the next 10 days.

The Celtics host the Clippers on Monday night, a team that beat them in late December. They have two days off and then play at Orlando and Atlanta on Thursday and Friday, respectively. Then they welcome the defending champion Lakers on Sunday the 31st to the Garden, followed the next day by a game in Washington.

The tough stretch ends with a game at home against Miami a week from Wednesday.

“From a schedule prospective, it looks daunting because we’re playing some of the better teams in the league,” Allen said. “Right now, it’s an ‘us’ project, just focusing on the small, little things that we’ve done to be successful, the things we’ve done to build this team to where it is right now.”

Rivers did acknowledge that his only concern with playing Garnett in the next two weeks are in the second game of back-to-back contests.

“The games that I’m concerned with Kevin will be the Atlanta game because it comes off a tough back-to-back with Orlando and then the Washington game because it comes off a tough Laker game,” Rivers said. “Those the only two games in the next eight or nine days I have concern.

Rivers repeated on Sunday following practice that Garnett looks strong in practice and he has no concern about the health of Garnett’s right knee. Rivers said his only concern is Garnett’s conditioning.

The Celtics are comfortably ahead in the Atlantic Division with a mark of 28-13. They have nine games before the All-Star break.

“We look forward to the whole week,” Allen said. “We know we’re winding down to the All-Star break.”

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