I’ve been chronicling Boston sports for the better part of 34 years and assumed I’d seen just about everything, but something unfolded Sunday afternoon that I never imagined possible: a standing ovation for a team that got swept in the first round of the playoffs.
You know what? The Boston Celtics deserved it.
Long after the buzzer sounded on a Game 4 rumble that enabled the Cleveland Cavaliers to advance (and simultaneously jam the breaks on this surprising Boston season), the appreciative capacity Garden crowd continued its resolute chant of “Let’s go Celtics!