Once the chants started, they didn’t stop.
“We want Tacko!” shouted the sellout crowd at TD Garden, its volume increasing with each subsequent request. “We want Tacko!”
With the Celtics leading the Detroit Pistons by more than 20 points in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s game, all eyes turned to 7-foot-5 center — err… 7-foot-6, if you ask him — Tacko Fall. On a two-way contract, Fall had been recalled to the Celtics to bolster their frontcourt after both Robert Williams (left hip bone edema) and Vincent Poirier (right pinkie fracture) were ruled out for multiple weeks.