On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team held its media day proceedings for the 2018-19 NBA season.
The Celtics did not yet have any way of knowing how the season would go with the team disappointing with a 49 – 33 record after much internal turbulence that would see the team lose both star point guard Kyrie Irving and veteran big man Al Horford in free agency. As such, media day was marked as it often is by much optimism among the players. “I can only feel like myself playing out there in an NBA game,” shared Irving via the Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach.
“I had great opportunities this summer to be around great people,” added the Duke product, who related he’d spent much of the summer in the Pacific Northwest playing pickup games with Celtics legend Bill Russell in the audience.