On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team held its media day proceedings for the 2018-19 NBA season.
The Celtics did not have any way of knowing the disappointing way the season unfolded. Boston finished 49-33 after much internal turbulence that led to the team losing both star point guard Kyrie Irving and veteran big man Al Horford in free agency.
As such, media day was marked as it often is by much optimism among the players. “I can only feel like myself playing out there in an NBA game,” shared Irving via the Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach.
“I had great opportunities this summer to be around great people,” added the former Duke standout, who related he’d spent much of the summer in the Pacific Northwest playing pickup games with Celtics legend Bill Russell in the audience.