Back to the Boston Celtics Newsfeed

How Marcus Smart has adapted under Ime Udoka has me buying into the Celtics once more

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?