The Celtics are deep into their new season and quest, so we’ll resist turning too many pages of the 2024 yearbook, as fun as it might be to revisit again and again.
Just allow me to note something from the delightful journey to Banner 18 last June. A favorite memory, really, but also illustrative of what needs to happen if a repeat is going to be [Kevin Garnett voice] possssiiibbbblllle.
I think if you polled Celtics fans and asked them to cite their favorite single play from the postseason, the majority — perhaps a vast majority — would immediately say Payton Pritchard’s buzzer-beating bomb, from just beyond half court and just before halftime, in Game 5 of the Finals.