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The Celtics [team stats] have tied the 1984-85 team for the best home start (12-0) in franchise history, and with a win tomorrow in Toronto can become the fourth Celtics team to start a season 20-2.

Those numbers could be lacrosse scores, for all Kevin Garnett claims to know.

“Did you know that before the game?” he asked Paul Pierce [stats] after the Celtics’ 104-82 win against the Milwaukee Bucks last night. “I’m not trying to be smart or anything, but I’m not even aware of any of the records. Every game is critical and we’re preparing for every team as if it’s our last game.

“During this morning’s shootaround you could have heard a pin drop,” said Garnett. “We are not aware of any records. I mean I didn’t even know. Well, OK, we are 19-2, so I do know that now, but up until that I was not even aware of the record.”

Crash landing

There was one troubling sight last night when Glen Davis crashed to the floor late in the fourth quarter and came up holding his already bandaged left wrist. The big forward landed on the wrist with two seconds left.

Davis later had the wrist iced and wrapped in a large Ace bandage, and said there was swelling and pain. He’ll know more this morning. . . .

It’s a tribute to Ray Allen’s Spartan approach that the Celtics guard hadn’t missed a game since twisting his right ankle against Charlotte on Nov. 24. But Allen’s insistence on playing through the discomfort finally took a toll before last night’s game against the Bucks, which the Celtics guard missed to rest his painful ankle.

Coach Doc Rivers expressed doubt that Allen would play tomorrow in Toronto. As a result, Tony Allen started in his place.

“I don’t want to take a chance,” said the Celtics coach. “That’s why I’m sitting him (last night) and maybe even (tomorrow). He keeps playing, and he keeps up his routine, and that didn’t help him.”

Snow and steady

Like everyone else across the state, the Celtics were stranded by Thursday’s snowstorm.

The difference was that unlike the thousands stranded on the highways and roads around Boston, the players simply spent an extra five hours or so inside the team’s Waltham practice facility.

“We had pepperoni pizza and I learned how to play spades,” Brian Scalabrine said of the ongoing card game. “We were playing for pepperonis, for pennies, that’s all.”

The day’s hero was John Connor, the team’s travel manager, who proved his reputation as a master procurer by braving the roads for a mass order of pizza. The round trip reportedly took three hours. . . .

But of all the tales of long trips and stranded motorists, it figures that Davis, confronted with his first drive through a snowstorm, only needed 30 minutes to get home.