The Boston Celtics had their backs against the wall since the very first game of the 2017-2018 season, when star forward Gordon Hayward suffered that gruesome leg injury. It was a season-ending injury that deflated many Celtics fans. But they still had Kyrie Irving, and put on an amazing start, going on a record-breaking streak.
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Throughout the season, the Celtics would not relinquish their place in the top two teams of the Eastern Conference, battling with the Raptors for conference supremacy. While it looked like the Celtics would be one of the Eastern Conference favorites heading into the playoffs, more bad news was headed their way. Their superstar, Kyrie Irving, would miss the remainder of the season and the playoffs with a knee injury.
Without their two stars, the rest of the Celtics should’ve packed up and called it a season. But no. They took it as a challenge and as an insult when too many basketball analysts wrote them off. And that’s exactly what went right with the team.
Every player, from Marcus Smart to Terry Rozier to Jaylen Brown to Jayson Tatum stepped up. They all followed the genius of head coach Brad Stevens and his supreme system, which focused on team effort instead of individual talent. All the players were given a chance to prove themselves in the playoffs, and that’s what they did, getting to one game shy of the NBA Finals.
Next season will be theirs.
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Arnon Dror is the Senior Operations Executive of Janus Technologies. Dror had worked as Vice President of Finance for Xerox Corporation and had held executive posts in other technology companies. For more on his professional background, visit this LinkedIn page.
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