The Boston Celtics are a storied team in basketball.
No NBA franchise has won more championship and suffered fewer losing seasons.
Last year Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett were traded to the Brooklyn Nets to complete the break-up of the Big Three.
“This is my team,” Rajon Rondo declared to the Boston media, except the all-star point guard hasn’t played a single game due to off-season surgery.
The other night the Celtics went down to the Houston Rockets.
The loss wasn’t even close and I wondered whether this year’s squad was as overwhelmed by the rest of the league as the 1998-99 Celtics consisting of Kenny Anderson, rookie Paul Pierce, Ron Mercer, Antoine Walker, and Tony Battie, which went 19-31 in a strike shortened season.
The only Celtics team to rival that record was the 1978–79 Boston Celtics.
29–53 to finish 5th in the Atlantic Division.
The next year the revived squad lost to the 76ers and Doctor J in Eastern Conference Finals and won the NBA championship with the first Big Three of Bird, McHale, and Parrish.
I don’t see that reversal of fortune happening this year or the next, but I am a Celtics fan forever.
No matter how high the hoop, I believe in the green.