No sooner had the lovable Isaiah Thomas finished off an improbable year were rumors of his inclusion in a trade with Kyrie Irving swirling.
Mixed emotions loomed over Boston. We love IT, but this is Kyrie we're talking about.
Then, Irving was a Celtic and what ensued was an inevitable highlight reel of Uncle Drew magically maneuvering the rock while donning the green and white.
And then, as his knee injury from 2015 reared its ugly head, sidelining Irving for the playoffs, the question of "can the Celtics win it all?