After attending his sister's funeral on Saturday in Washington Isaiah Thomas is ready to go for game 1 against Washington. He's already at the TD Garden getting ready for today's early start:
Speaking of early starts, it's kind of messed up the the NBA and ABC couldn't move the time of todays Celtics-Wizards game 1 back knowing what one of it's stars had to go through the past two weeks - culminating in the funeral for Isaiah's sister that took place yesterday. Obviously there's a lot that goes into selecting these times between the league, the networks, the arenas and considering none of these games/times could have been locked in before the completion of Friday night's matchups it would seem there could have been some wiggle room there, although the only other game today is a West Coast start (game 7 between the Clippers and Jazz in LA) so they couldn't just swap the two.