Today, March 1st is the 17th anniversary of Rick Pitino's legendary rant:
If you don't know the rant of which I speak, you are probably a younger fan. Pitino, a Massachusetts sports icon from his playing days at UMass-Amherst and early coaching days at Boston University, seemed a natural signing for the Boston Celtics once Pitino rose to prominence at the University of Kentucky.
It went very, very poorly - save for drafting Paul Pierce. Almost nothing else went right, and the Pitino era is widely regarded as one of the primary reasons the club languished in the proverbial "treadmill of mediocrity" as long as they did.