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Banner hanging in Boston... posted on 03/05/2008

I was a young kid in 86 when the Celtics took their third championship in five years. Dad brought the old black and white television along and stuck it on the roof of our red Volkswagen rabbit. While mom shopped, we sat in the parking lot of an outlet mall and watched the Celtics run away with a tough series against the Rockets.

All of my iconic Bird, McHale, Walton, Ainge and D.J. Johnson moments are somehow from that spring. To steal a phrase, “those were the days.” The days of the old garden. It was several parts cigar smoke, bad foam fingers and the world’s nastiest bathrooms—but it was also a place of legendary victories and home of arguably the NBA’s greatest franchise. But history can also have a way of hanging around.

One June evening, the hope of two programs by the name of Len Bias, died; the impact of which I have not thought of in quite some time. He was the future for Celtics basketball. He was the next great thing—at that point I hadn’t even heard about Michael Jordan or how he would rise to greatness. I had only heard about a quiet guy from Maryland that could jump out of the gym.

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