Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis hit the parquet for their first time ever as Celtics players. Their first impressions? The Boston home crowd is not your typical preseason crowd.
“That was insane. That was insane for a preseason game,” Porzingis said in the postgame presser, grinning from ear to ear. “Fun game to play in, fun game to watch at the end when Payton was going off and the crowd was into it. I’m very happy to be a Celtic, I’m not going to lie.”
Payton Pritchard led all scorers with 26 points on 9-of-14 shooting in just 23 minutes of action, and the Celtics bench was loving it.