COMMENTARY
Before I announce that I’m back in on Marcus Smart and the Celtics, I suppose I should provide full disclosure:
I was out on Marcus Smart and the Celtics.
Mind you, I didn’t want to be. Since Smart arrived as the No. 6 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, I’ve believed he would grow into that quintessential tough-as-masonry-nails Celtic in the K.C. Jones/Don Chaney/M.L. Carr tradition, one who would find ways to help win games even on nights when his jump shot had the density of a brick.
Smart has never feared being on the wrong end of a mismatch – remember him frustrating Giannis Antetokounmpo, who stands eight inches taller, in the 2018 playoffs?