Paul Pierce’s No. 34 will be headed to the rafters at TD Garden Sunday evening, but the former Celtics forward still remembers when the team raised a different kind of banner nearly a decade ago.
“The last time I was in the Garden to pull on some strings to put something up, I know I cried,” he told reporters at the Four Seasons Hotel Saturday night. “I’m not really a big crier.”
Pierce was a part of the 2007-2008 Celtics team that won the franchise’s first NBA title in over 20 years.