When Drew Carter and Brian Scalabrine signed off Tuesday with a salute to producer Paul Lucey, director Jim Edmonds, and the many behind-the-scenes folks on NBC Sports Boston’s Celtics broadcasts, they were signing off from something else too.
The regional sports network’s broadcast of the Celtics’ series-clinching Game 5 victory over the Magic wasn’t just the last game Carter and Scalabrine will call this season, with all live games strictly national broadcasts for the second round and beyond.
It’s the last Celtics playoff game NBC Sports Boston will have for the foreseeable future, and most likely permanently.