The playing surface at TD Garden in Boston will be exclusively parquet for the 2015 playoff season. Very few people, if anyone, saw that coming.
Within the space of 48 hours last Saturday and Monday, the Boston Bruins’ season came to a shattering conclusion and the Boston Celtics’ was surprisingly extended. The Celtics will open the N.B.A. postseason against the Cleveland Cavaliers this weekend. The Bruins on Wednesday fired their general manager, Peter Chiarelli, after failing to qualify for the N.H.L. playoffs for the first time in eight years.
The Celtics have been one of the best teams in the N.