Part of the enjoyment from re-watching old games during this COVID-19-necessitated absence of live sports comes in getting reacquainted with achievements that have been obscured by the shadows of time, remembered still, but perhaps not as vividly as they ought to be.
Take, say, the multiple clutch performances in Cedric Maxwell’s Celtics career. Old-school Celtics fans — and those of any generation that have learned the franchise’s lore — know why his No. 31 dangles from the Garden rafters. He was at his best in some of the Celtics’ biggest victories in the 1980s, when they added three championship banners to their collection.