Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, college in East Lansing, and professional ball in Memphis, Tennessee. Xavier Tillman has never been a city guy.
Now a member of the Boston Celtics, he’s experiencing it for the first time. The massive buildings, bright lights, and incomparable roar of a TD Garden crowd. But none of those things were his first observation.
When asked about the “Massholes” on the roads, Tillman had never heard the term, but he deadpanned mid-question and knew exactly what it meant.
“Yes,” Tillman told CelticsBlog without skipping a beat. “I don’t even know [that word], but I feel like I know.