Now or Never for Lucky

 After falling short last year in the NBA Finals, I felt like the Boston Celtics missed their chance at bringing home championship #18. I was torn up about it because my last memory of truly seeing them be great was losing in the 2010 NBA Finals against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. Years of my dad and I watching together as the Celtics were getting further and further away from the greatness they once held has made it hard to be optimistic about the team’s season at the start of every October. The results of last year’s season were bittersweet because I was happy to just see them at the pinnacle of the sport again but winning the first 2 games of the series and squandering it away immediately after was not the way I would have wanted us to end things. With how much money our stars Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Marcus Smart, and Al Horford were taking home there wasn’t much money left to go around for new acquisitions over the offseason. So, it really felt like that was the last chance.

To my surprise, over the offseason the Celtics were able to make a few trades and acquired low-cost contracts that legitimately improved the team. Malcolm Brogdon, a former Rookie of the Year, was the biggest surprise to me that we were able to land and is the piece off the bench that we needed to be able to push us over the top in my opinion. Now that we are 2 games through the First Round of the playoffs against the Atlanta Hawks, I can truly gauge that we’re a more elite team than we were last year with how decisive both wins have been so far. I feel confident in the ability of the team to make it deep into the playoffs this year, if not win it all. I was wrong about last season being our last chance, but now it really does feel like we don’t have much time left. We won’t be able to keep everyone around for one more year, luckily everyone on the team seems to be playing with the same urgency in their mind that I have in mine.

Here's to hoping for one more moment of greatness.