BOSTON — Jrue Holiday’s feeling publicly about the startling trade that sent him to the Trail Blazers, and eventually the rival in September, hadn’t changed roughly two months later. He and his former Bucks teammates talked before Wednesday’s first meeting between the top two powers in the east, unaffected by the major shift at point guard in the rivalry and satisfied with their new standing on each side.
“I’m happy for him in the sense of, I want him to continue to compete for championships,” Connaughton told CLNS Media/CelticsBlog on Wednesday morning. “Obviously, being a kid who grew up in Boston, 10-year-old Pat would’ve loved Jrue as a Celtic.