New-look Boston Celtics no longer the Eastern favorites
By Adam Taylor
The new NBA season is drawing near, the Boston Celtics have begun their preseason games and fans everywhere are salivating in anticipation.
It ended so badly for the Boston Celtics last year; what promised so much gave so little. Danny Ainge is never one to beat a broken drum; he saw changes that needed to be made and executed over the summer.
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Questions could be raised whether trades should have happened midway through last season. Regardless of your stance here, it never happened and the team finds itself where it is today.
Kyrie Irving and Terry Rozier may shoulder the largest portion of the blame for what transpired last year, but it was a team effort in failure.
Following the exit of supposed key players, Ainge retooled the roster with new talent, talent that appears to have a point to prove. Personality was high on the agenda apparently, evidenced by the players recruited during the draft. All of the rookies project as high character guys willing and eager to learn; it’s refreshing to see.
Learning on the job is going to be of paramount importance for this young roster, with improvements necessary across the board. Let’s take a look into the roster movements and begin to cast our eyes ahead to the season.