With the arrival of the 2021-22 NBA season, the NBA (at least by its own accounting) turns 75 years old, and the Boston Celtics will hit the three-quarters century mark with it, having been with the league since before it adopted its current name. It was known as the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
While some may take umbrage with the decision to make this the Association’s 75th birthday, we will focus our attention on the enduring partnership between the NBA and the Celtics that has seen Boston win a league-tying 17 titles, 16 of them within the first half-century of the founding of the league.
To that end, our friends over at CLNS Media’s “NBA History & Legends on CLNS” YouTube channel dug up this gem of a promotional spot produced by the team in 2019 in honor of the Celtics’ “City Edition” jerseys, themselves emblematic of that partnership mentioned above.
Watch the video embedded above celebrating the deep and rich history of the Celtics and the NBA as we embark on what so many fans and teams have 74 times (at least) before.
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