362 days.
That’s how long this season went for the Boston Celtics; longer still if you consider the “Team Shamrock” contingent of Team USA — Marcus Smart, Kemba Walker, Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum — began playing together in China for the 2019 FIBA World Cup several weeks earlier.
Three days shy of a year, this team has officially played together as a team, a season that saw the meteoric ascent of Jayson Tatum, and the arrival of Jaylen Brown as a top-tier player.
A season which started with the loss of All-Stars Kyrie Irving and Al Horford, but quickly recovered with the additions of Kemba Walker and Enes Kanter — and seven rookies, including undrafted fan favorite Tacko Fall.
It had two All-Stars from Boston in Tatum and Walker (and if we’re being honest, it should have had three with Brown). It was a campaign like no other, with a four-month layover in the middle of the season due to an unprecedented pandemic.
There were nationwide protests for civil rights spilling into the single-site, Disney-hosted ‘bubble’ as part of the agreement to restart, and several Celtics using their platform while there to that end.
In a postseason that to date has yet to return a single positive COVID-19 case.
All in all, despite the unhappy ending for Boston, there is so much to look back on in one of the wildest rides of a Celtics season in their seven-decade history.
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