BOSTON — When Marcus Smart comes to Boston, he doesn’t schedule a bunch of reunions or try to cram in visits to all of his favorite spots from his 9 years in Boston.
“I kind of just try to hide,” he said, surrounded by more than a dozen Boston reporters in front of his TD Garden locker room. “Because it’s too much. It’s overwhelming. I don’t want to disappoint anyone.”
Hours before Sunday’s Celtics game against the Wizards, hundreds of Celtics fans surrounded the players’ tunnel in hopes of getting a chance to say hello to Smart, who has been back at TD Garden twice since the trade that brought Kristaps Porzingis to the Celtics in the summer of 2023.