According to The Boston Globe, the Celtics' flight home from Toronto was delayed by a mechanical issue, so instead of rushing to the plane the players lingered in the locker room to soak up a perfect 4-0 road trip.

Some sipped wine from paper cups, others ate fresh banana bread, and lyrics from Kodak Black's song "Like Dat" blared from a portable speaker. The Globe notes the lyric framing the team's mood summed things up neatly: "All I do is win. I hate to lose."

For hip-hop watchers, it is a snapshot of how deeply Kodak Black's catalog remains woven into NBA locker-room culture.

The Globe's account makes the soundtrack choice feel earned rather than routine. Boston had beaten Jaylen Brown and the 76ers the night before, then fell behind Toronto by 22 points in the third road game in four nights before roaring back for a 98-93 win, per the Globe and ESPN.

Tatum told the Globe that getting to the hotel at 3 a.m. after a back-to-back made the Toronto game "a little bit tougher," but that "if you want to be great, these are games that you have to win." A victory anthem about hating to lose fit a team that had just refused to.

The evidence of the turnaround is stark across the pack. ESPN reports the Raptors hit 10 threes in the opening quarter, tying a franchise record, then went 6-for-25 from distance the rest of the night.

nba.com's Keys to the Game notes Boston trailed 59-37 before a 16-0 run in two minutes and 30 seconds, including a rare seven-point possession built on Tatum's flagrant-fouled three and Baylor Scheierman's follow-up triple.

What the song soundtracked was more than a feel-good win. ESPN reports the victory extended Boston's winning streak to five and improved the Celtics to 10-2 and 4-0 against the Atlantic Division, while Toronto fell below .500 at 5-6.

nba.com adds that Boston swept the four-game road trip with a plus-86 scoring differential, which it calls the best mark for a four-game road trip in franchise history.

Tatum finished with game highs of 24 points and eight assists, per nba.com, even while shooting 6-of-21 according to ESPN — a gritty stat line matching the grind-it-out mood of the music in the room.

The moment gives hip-hop fans a small but telling data point about the genre's place in elite sports culture: a Kodak Black record chosen, per The Boston Globe, as the emotional throughline for a locker room riding a five-game streak.

On the court, ESPN lists what's ahead — the Celtics host Dallas on Sunday, while the Raptors visit Philadelphia on Thursday with Kawhi Leonard still out and described by coach Darko Rajakovic as "progressing well" in individual conditioning.