Marcus Smart is undoubtedly one of the fiercest competitors in the NBA.
His tremendous passion and hustle has been one of the most invaluable traits on this Celtics team in recent history, and his commitment to winning at all costs perfectly embodies everything Boston is all about.
That is why all of Boston is hurting a day after news broke out of the passing of his mother, Camellia Smart.
Her passing comes just one season after she saw Smart and his Celtics reach the Eastern Conference Finals for the second time in a row. Marcus had announced his mother’s acquisition of his mother’s myelodysplastic syndrome while he visited her last April as he was rehabbing from a Thumb Injury.