The Celtics need to drop the entitlement—and so do I

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesThe Boston Celtics are spectacular, but they’re also entitled.

Every once in a while, for seemingly no reason at all, this team will produce a game that reeks of… something. It’s hard to tell quite what it is, but it’s always the same story: poor three-point shooting, bewildered bodies standing around and faces plastered with frustration.

And then they lose, both unimaginatively and pathetically. In both of the Celtics’ Game 2s, they’ve horribly underestimated their opponent and disrespected their NBA-caliber talent as if they were playing a high school practice squad.

It’s self-important self-destruction. Once the Cavaliers began executing a professional…