A year and a day ago, the Boston Celtics earned a 122-92 win over the Miami Heat, stringing two wins together for a, well, modest win streak and bringing their record to 27-25. Up to that point, they had only won three games in a row twice. It was that night a movement was born.
“The energy is about to shift,” Jaylen Brown tweeted.
At the time, trade deadline speculation ran wild, and no one knew exactly what Brown was talking about. But after extending their lowly two-game win streak to nine, soaring up the standings to the two seed, and making an incredible run to the NBA Finals, his words became a slogan for Celtics fans to champion.