Covering sports can be a pretty humbling experience. I follow this team daily and know the ins and the outs of the way the machine works about as well as an “outsider” could. Yet there are plenty of moments when I am blindsided by events and end up feeling downright stupid (or at least woefully short-sighted). In fact, there were at least 2 or 3 in this offseason alone.
If the offseason went as I expected from June forward, we would be looking at a core roster of Isaiah Thomas, Markelle Fultz, Avery Bradley, Gordon Hayward, Jae Crowder, Jaylen Brown, and Al Horford.