When a scintillating Celtics season ended in heartbreak two weeks ago, the consensus was that they wouldn’t need to do anything drastic to return to this point once again and ultimately take it one step further.
Perhaps some bench scoring would help, or maybe they could add a point guard (see: Malcolm Brogdon) or big, but they had just about everything necessary to contend for years to come. Those were much simpler times.
Suddenly, when Kevin Durant became available, fans irrationally decided it makes sense to give the Nets everything the Celtics have.