With Paul Pierce likely poised to become an official Hall of Fame inductee, we thought it appropriate to celebrate No. 34 with a look back at his 34 biggest games with the Boston Celtics across the course of his 15 seasons wearing green and white.
In our own subjective interpretation of what his “biggest” games were, we’ve listed them in ascending order from No. 34 to No. 1, putting a little extra weight in playoff games — but also detracting a little in the big games that came in losses.
We’ve done our best to dig up photos from those games as well, though we’ve had to sub in a few from the games against the same opponent as close as we could get in time — evidently, a career spanning 19 seasons that ended four years past has had a little leakage to the sands of time.
With all that said, let’s dive in.