It most likely will be over for the Celtics by late Sunday afternoon, at which time the young Green Teamers will be smothered in a sea of silver linings, life lessons and moral victories.
We will talk about how they never quit, that they were scrappy, diligent, determined, and so on. That their 103-95 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers last night at the Garden places them on the brink of elimination is besides the point. Nobody outside of glass-forever-half-filled play-by-play legend Mike Gorman thought the Celtics would win this series. Everyone else just wanted the Celtics to make an effort.