The dumb narrative about the Celtics that everyone believed — and why it’s dead wrong
Just stop going down this train of thought.
The dumb narrative about the Celtics that everyone believed — and why it’s dead wrong originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Boston Celtics were supposed to be bad this season.
Jayson Tatum was going to miss most of the campaign after his torn Achilles. They got rid of size in the offseason. Well, two of those sentences are true.
But the first one was a bad narrative to begin with. There wasn't actually evidence that the Celtics would be bad. Now, Jaylen Brown is calling out the doubters, and that's fair.
There were a lot of them. Some wondered whether the Celtics should just chase draft positioning and try again next year. And yes, it's easy to say now, but genuinely: Those doubts were silly in the first place.