I got really down on the Celtics over the last few days in the lead up to the 2019 NBA Draft. All indications were the team’s two best players are out the door, years of meticulous team-building left in shambles. And the future guaranteed nothing but difficult questions: what will the Celtics do with Terry Rozier’s restricted free agency? How will the team handle Jaylen Brown’s impending extension eligibility? Will Gordon Hayward ever be more than an albatross on the cap table?
For a night, the Celtics’ long-term questions mercifully faded into the background.