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To say that the Boston Celtics have been on an incredible run this season would be an understatement. Their trip to the NBA Finals becomes even more impressive once you factor in how bad this team was early in the campaign.
So much so, that even the father of Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum did not believe they were going to make it. That was how desperate things had gotten to early in the season:
“I didn’t think they were going to make the playoffs at the beginning of the season,” Justin told Bally Sports (h/t David Butler II of Celtics Wire). “Y’all are bad, y’all don’t share the ball, you don’t do a lot of this — and this was in November, December before they went on that run.”
Justin even began thinking about the same questions some Celtics fans were asking about who should be traded off the team. Boston, however, stood their ground. They weathered the storm.
Justin gives a lot of credit to the veterans on the squad for their steadfastness amid all the troubles the Celtics went through early on:
“Now, to see them beating the Brooklyn Nets, going through (the) Milwaukee (Bucks), the NBA Champions from last year, and then finishing off Jimmy Butler (of the Miami Heat), I did not expect it,” he continued.
“That’s what professionals are. The old guys on that team showed what professionals are supposed to be like. That’s what your job is. You’ve got to find a way not to be an inconsistent team, to be a winning team.”
Right now, Jayson Tatum and Co. are just two wins away from an NBA championship. It goes without saying that the Celtics have gone a long, long way since their slow start in the regular season.
