Call it a tribute and call it the truth. Al Horford would have fit beautifully on any Celtics team of any era.
All right, maybe not every era. He would have stood out for a lot of reasons in the prehistoric age of the set-shot-chucking goofy white dudes, though his own deadeye shot sometimes looks like relic of those times.
But isn’t it easy to see him as the smooth sidekick to Bill Russell in the ‘50s and ‘60s, or as a gentler but just as respected Paul Silas stand-in in the ‘70s, or a selfless sharer of the basketball in the Larry Legend ‘80s, or even someone who would have been a perfect complement rather than a competitor to the New Big Three earlier this century?