Right at the trade deadline, Isaiah Thomas was traded to a team that was below .500 by double digits. It was a young team nobody expected to be good just yet. A young team for which slow gains, even without a playoff berth, would be enough.
"When I got traded to Boston, it was a young team thinking rebuild, and play the young guys and things like that," Thomas said. "But we came together and were like, shoot, if we play hard and leave it all out on the floor anything can happen. I think that's what we are doing now.