The Golden State Warriors play host to the Boston Celtics at Chase Center on Friday.

The Celtics (9-1) had fans worried in the opener when they got dominated by the Philadelphia 76ers but that's definitely the outlier in a stellar season thus far. In fact, Boston has won all nine games since then, as they're clearly one of the best teams in the NBA. Trading out Kyrie Irving for Kemba Walker has lit a fire under this team and it's led to more "team-friendly" ball. While Irving is probably the better individual player, Walker is a better fit for this team. He's allowed teammates like Jaylen Brown, Gordon Hayward and Jayson Tatum to thrive in ways that Irving couldn't and it really shows on both ends of the floor. Unfortunately, they did lose Hayward for the next six weeks because of a broken hand and that does change things for this team with the way he was bouncing back to his Utah form.

The Warriors (2-10) are simply a shell of the team we've seen for the past decade. Losing Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, Stephen Curry and DeMarcus Cousins in the span of one year is truly disastrous and it's led to one of the worst teams in the NBA. A 24-point loss at the hands of the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday was just a sign of the struggles, as those sorts of losses have become commonplace for this dismantled roster. Curry and Thompson are the only ones remaining on the roster and neither will be back anytime soon. That means it's D'Angelo Russell and Draymond Green's team, which is sadly not enough to compete in today's NBA. In any case, they do have young players like Jordan Poole, Willie Cauley-Stein and Eric Paschall getting extra run and development is really all they can hope for at this point.

These teams have split each of their last four season series, with the road team winning six of their eight meetings.