These well-known well-wishers came to see one man. And for their sake, thankfully John Wall showed up in Game 4.

As the Wizards blew away the Boston Celtics, 121-102, Wall sparked the team through a 26-0 run in the third quarter and finished with 27 points and 12 assists. He is averaging 28.8 points and 11.1 assists in the playoffs this year.

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Wall continued his hot play despite a slow start. He matched his previous career worst of nine straight misses from the field to start the game, then recovered by hitting seven of his final 14 shot attempts. During this career-defining season in which Wall has grown as a closer, big-shot maker and leader, his greatest leap as a rising superstar just might be in how he rises from the doldrums to become the most dominant player on the floor.

“Ah, that’s nothing, man. Wall’s a great player, man,” Wizards forward Markieff Morris said of Wall’s 0-for-9 beginning. “He’ll start 0 for 20, he’s still gonna get into it. He’s still gonna have an effect on the game.”

While Boston’s Isaiah Thomas dizzied the defense by making his first five three-pointers, Wall was mired in a funk. He blew five layups, often undone by his own speed and force while tossing up wild attempts at the rim. Then, as he stretched out to a deeper range, his pull-up jumpers missed long and his spot-ups dropped short.

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“I was getting good looks, I was just missing easy shots, layups hitting the rim and not slowing down,” Wall explained.

With 5:50 remaining in the first half, Wall found an open look beyond the left arc, and with Morris holding off Celtics big man Kelly Olynyk, he made his first field goal.

“John Wall finally comes through,” color commentator Greg Anthony said on the TNT broadcast.

In previous years, even if Wall had “finally” made a shot, it didn’t always break his slump.

On Feb. 1, 2012, when Wall started with nine straight misses for the first time in his career, he finished the game 1 for 12. Last season, while Wall had firmly established himself as a perennial all-star, he still had erratic shooting nights — 15 games in which he shot 30 percent or below after attempting at least 11 field goals.

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Even this year, Wall opened the 2016-17 season with a shooting dud, missing his first eight shots and finishing 3 for 15 overall in a Wizards road loss to the Atlanta Hawks.

However, Wall no longer allows a bad start to define his night. On Sunday after drilling that three-pointer, Wall, brimming with swagger, stared down someone near the Boston bench. Not even nine straight misses can mute Wall’s bravado.

“I don’t think it bothers him that he can’t make the next one,” Coach Scott Brooks said. “It bothers him that he didn’t make them. He definitely doesn’t want to go 0 for 9.

“That’s what I love about him: He focuses on the next play,” Brooks continued. “He made a big three. Kind of got him going.”

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Though his next shot missed, and he was 1 for 11 at that point, Wall made his next three attempts. Late in the second quarter, Wall returned to his pass-first ways. He measured up Thomas and hit him with a crossover and then a spin move before eluding Olynyk and throwing a behind-the-back gem to Marcin Gortat.

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Then as the Wizards romped through the third quarter, outscoring Boston 42-20, Wall dropped five more assists and added 13 points. After the game, Wall, looking every bit the main attraction in a gray plaid three-piece suit, left out of the back exit of the locker room. He didn’t see his two biggest fans of the night, Jackson and Ambrosius, so they came to him.

Jackson crashed Wall and Bradley Beal’s news conference in the team’s practice facility. Once Wall left the dais, Jackson sent two young children to pose with the well-dressed man.

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“What do you say to John,” Jackson asked after snapping the photo.

“Thank you!” the boys responded.

Around the corner, Ambrosius was making her move. Ambrosius, who wrote “Butterflies” for Michael Jackson and has earned multiple Grammy Award nominations for her own work, may be a celebrity in her industry but seemed awestruck in the photo she posted of Wall and her family.

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“GREAT GAME @johnwall glad I got to tell you in person …” the Instagram caption began, followed with heart emoji.

They came to see a star Sunday, and though it took a while, Wall put on a show.