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NBA history spans 80 seasons, and as CelticsBlog readers well know, the Boston Celtics have won a league-high 18 championships. This month, we are recapping each of those title years.
The 2023-24 Boston Celtics and the quest for Banner 18 could be best exemplified by Thomas Wayne’s famous quote from the criminally underrated — if only due to the astronomical success of its sequel — Batman Begins: “Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
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Heading into the 2023 offseason, it seemed like the Celtics were destined to fall flat on their faces every year, only picking themselves up enough between each tumble to ensure the next collapse would hurt more than the last.
Every high point since the Big 3 won in 2008 had been marred by disappointment — a feeling Celtics fans would come to know well over the next 16 years.
The Big 3 only got back to the Finals once more, in 2010, and lost Games 6 and 7 in devastating fashion after taking a 3-2 lead against Kobe’s Lakers, allowing LA to win their second championship in a row and their 16th overall (if you count the Minneapolis titles).
The next year, LeBron joined the Miami Heat and formed a newer, younger Big 3 that immediately stole the spotlight and cruised past Boston 4-1 on their way to the Finals. When the Celtics met the Heat again in the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals, they lost the first two games before roaring back with three consecutive wins to take a 3-2 series lead heading back to Boston. Everything was perfectly teed up for the aging C’s to make one last triumphant run to the Finals before Rajon Rondo could lead the team into a new era. Unfortunately, LeBron put up one of his greatest performances ever in Game 6 and sealed the deal in Game 7 while on his way to winning his first ring. And just like that, the balloon popped and the dream of a happy ending for Boston’s Big 3 was over.
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Danny Ainge blew up the team after a 4-2 series loss to the New York Knicks in the first round of the 2013 playoffs and traded fan favorites Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to the Brooklyn Nets. While we know better now, many NBA fans…
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