Albert Camus didn’t think much about the basketball, but I think he would have loved it.
The Boston Celtics didn’t overlap much with the French philosopher who died in 1960, but if Camus somehow had an overseas subscription to the Boston Globe, he would have heard about at least two of our 18 banners. Camus was a longtime lover of soccer, having played goalkeeper for his college team in Algeria, and even regarded soccer as a metaphor for human life. He saw the morality of sports as gloriously simple in a world of ambiguity: the team was working towards the same goal, the clean-cut battle between good and evil.