ESPN.com · May 21, 2017
Isaiah Thomas and a 'legendary' 2016-17 season
After the Boston Celtics announced that Isaiah Thomas would miss the remainder of the postseason after aggravating a right hip injury, team president of basketball operations Danny Ainge took to Twitter and dubbed Thomas’ 2016-17 campaign a “legendary season.”
It might sound like a bit of hyperbole, but in reflecting on everything that’s happened around Thomas since the start of the NBA’s calendar year in July, it truly has been a fascinating 10 months. Not only did Thomas overcome unimaginable grief and obvious physical pain to deliver the Celtics to the Eastern Conference finals over the past five weeks, but he put together one of the more mesmerizing seasons in Celtics history.