In the 2014 the offseason Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck appeared optimistic about the team's then immediate future. With a lottery pick in 2014 and a treasure chest full of future picks and low-cost-high-potential players on the roster, the fireworks prediction was a valid-- albeit nerve-racking-- one.
Kind of like the offseason basketball version of talking to your pitcher during a no-hitter. Once you call attention to a thing, it just seems harder to accomplish.
That wound up being the case in 2014. That lottery pick wound up being Marcus Smart and the big offseason acquisition was free agent Evan Turner, a former 2nd overall pick with something to prove, but far from the fireworks Boston was expecting.