CelticsBlog exit interview: The many layers of The Tacko Fall Experience™

Photo by Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty ImagesJust before the pandemic walloped the world into submission with the brute force of a Tacko Fall layup rejection, I went to a Celtics home game. January 11, 2020, a 140-105 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. Jayson Tatum recorded his then-career-high (41). Enes Kanter scored 22 points and had 19 rebounds, stealing some of the kid’s thunder. Since it was literally the last time I voluntarily stood shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers inside an enclosed space, I remember it like it was yesterday.

Well, not exactly the game itself, nor its specifics. (I had to pull those stats from the contest’s box score.) What I remember was leaving the game with my…