The 2019-2020 NBA regular season is set to start on December 22nd. It’s unknown who the Celtics will start the season against, but they’re teed up for a primetime Christmas Day matchup against the Brooklyn Nets.
There may not be another juicier head-to-head that has less to do with actual basketball and more to do with the teams’ front offices and player history than Boston vs. Brooklyn. Dating back to 2007, Danny Ainge’s pursuit of Kevin Durant infamously resulted in a fine when the Celtics President of Basketball Operations sat with KD’s mother during the Big 12 Tournament when Durant was at the University of Texas.