Recollections and reflections from The Tradition’s 2023 honorees

Kevin Faulk, Doc Rivers, Briana Scurry, Bob Sweeney, and Dennis Eckersley at TD Garden Wednesday night. (Dana White is not pictured.)As he prepared the Celtics for the 2007-08 season, Doc Rivers took the team for a Duck Boat ride.

The coach wanted his players to visualize what it would be like when they brought home Banner 17. Rivers had seen the Red Sox and Patriots on the Duck Boats after winning titles, and after the Celtics formed their Big Three by acquiring Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett to join Paul Pierce, Rivers felt it was their time to win it all.

There was a lot of joking and swearing during the trip, Rivers said. Some of the players, including Garnett, didn’t quite get the…