Boston to start pre-season overseas again this fall, years after C's became 1st NBA team to compete abroad in a FIBA event against same Real Madrid club
With apologies to George Bernard Shaw, twenty-seven years ago Larry Legend and company rained buckets in Spain on the country's main court to win the first McDonald's Open tournament held overseas, plainly.
And now the Celtics are returning to the scene for another pre-season outing in October.
So with Boston opening its 2015 pre-season overseas with a game at Real Madrid, it seems a good time to recount how the fabled Larry Bird-era Celtics competed in the second McDonald's Open at Spain, in the same arena they will play in this fall.