As we await tonight's "The Last Dance" docuseries chronicling Michael Jordan's 1997-1998 Bulls , if you were a BostonCeltics fan back then you already know how that season kicked off for Chicago. The Celtics shocked the reigning champs in Rick Pitino's Celtics debut. Pitino's press seemed to be working for the super young Celtics just as it had in college and his previous stint in the NBA coaching the Knicks.
For that one night at least, the sky was the limit for Celtics fans' dreams. Little did we know that we had just saw Pitino's peak.