COMMENTARY
A long 3-pointer’s worth of thoughts on your defending NBA champions …
A couple of developments that will have to go the Celtics way if they are to successfully defend that championship are obvious enough that we probably could categorize them in the Goes Without Saying file.
The first – again, obviously – is health. Injuries are not an excuse why a team doesn’t fulfill its biggest goals, but a reason. Kristaps Porzingis is the most injury-prone of the Celtics – I think we all cringe in unison whenever he lands awkwardly, let alone falls – but he has looked fantastic lately on both ends of the court.