In Boston, we have always had outsized expectations for our sports teams. That has only become heightened in the past 20 years, when the city has seen its four largest men’s pro sports teams win 12 championships. And it hasn’t just been them. The New England Revolution won the MLS Cup in 2014. Further out of the spotlight, the women’s ice hockey team the Boston Pride have won their championship, the Isobel Cup, twice in its five-year history – the first Cup, in 2016, and the most recent Cup earlier in 2021. We demand greatness here, bottom line.
So the fits and starts of the Boston Celtics the past season and a half have been incredibly frustrating.