I don’t mean that in a basketball sense. Despite their best efforts to blow their first-round series against the Fighting Trae Youngs, the Celtics are a frustratingly good team this year. They won 57 games in the regular season and were one of the NBA’s most prolific three-point shooting teams.
Instead, the Celtics suck on a deeper level. They don’t have cultural rot like the Washington Commanders or the Dallas Mavericks, nor are they cheapskates like the Houston Rockets and the Robert Sarver-led Phoenix Suns. In fact, they acted swiftly to suspend former head coach Ime Udoka when he was found to be having an inappropriate workplace relationship even though he was fresh off taking them to the NBA Finals.