Even with a very limited number of fans, TD Garden felt like TD Garden on Monday night. For the first time this season, the Celtics invited around 2,400 faithful through their doors off Causeway Street. That’s roughly just 12% of the roaring, raucous capacity that enters through those North Station gates, but it had all the familiar trappings of a Boston home game.
The building came to life and PA announcer Eddie Palladino filled the remaining empty seats with his booming “JT FOR 3” after Jayson Tatum hit his first from behind the arc.