Not only did they win a record 18th championship with an NBA Finals triumph over the Dallas Mavericks in June, three of their players — Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday and Derrick White — won a gold medal with the United States men’s basketball team at the 2024 Paris Olympics last week.
Earlier this year, the fine folks over at NBC Sports Boston put together an excellent 10-part video series on the best highlights from Hall of Fame Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.
The video series helped carry fans through the slowest part of the pandemic-inflected 2021-22 regular season.
With that well behind us, the folks at NBC Sports put together a classic for our viewing enjoyment.
Except this time they have put together a series of videos dedicated to highlighting the so-called Hick From French Lick’s best passes and assists of his storied career with Boston.
Spanning Bird’s entire career with the Celtics, it is a great way to learn or revisit just how good the Boston icon was at moving the rock.
“He was all-in on everything, including laughter and having fun and poking fun and smiling and just enjoying life and trying to make things better,” shared the team governor of his experiences with Russell over the years in an interview with local TV station WCVB Channel 5 Boston that aired in the wake of news of the Celtics great’s passing on this past Sunday.
It is more than understandable to turn to the USF product’s legendary status in the league with his 11 titles, 13 All-Star nods, and 5 MVPs awards.
Or his historic activism in the US Civil Rights movements of the 1960s.
But Grousbeck’s memory of his person is just as important.
