The Boston Celtics won 64 games this season. Combined with their 12-2 postseason record up to this point, they have gone 76-20. Now, they’re set to take on the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals.
But nobody cares.
“We only hang NBA championship banners, right? Seventeen of them,” Jayson Tatum said at NBA Finals Media Day.
And this year, the franchise has a chance to hang another, cementing themselves atop the league’s hierarchy of champions. From Bill Russell to Larry Bird to Paul Pierce, the organization’s legacy has been defined by nothing less than excellence.