Does the Celtics rebuild provide a road map for the Rockets?

History has a way of repeating itself. It has to. Some people won’t listen no matter how many times it says the same thing.

Historians of the modern NBA will already have the context I’m about to provide. That’s fine. If history is doomed to repeat itself ad nauseum, it does so through the written word.

In 2013, the aging Boston Celtics were at a crossroads. Heading into the 2013-14 season, they were five seasons removed from their last NBA championship. They’d just wrapped up a season that saw them finish 42-40. Something had to be done.

Something did. It wasn’t an outcome anybody was expecting. That summer, the Celtics traded Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce for effectively a bunch of so-so…