The Doc Is Still In: The Best Move the Boston Celtics Never Made

Allow me to take you back for a moment. Let's go back to one of the lowest times in the history of the Boston Celtics. A time where the only thing that was lower than the team's expectations was their level of play. A time before thoughts of Kevin Garnett pounding his fist against a green Celtics jersey existed. A time before Ray Allen regularly stepped on the parquet floor to display one of the sweetest strokes in history. A time before the possibility of a 17th banner in the rafters was truly realistic. We don't even have to go back that far, either. It was only three years ago that the Celtics stumbled through one of the franchise's worst seasons in history, winning only 24 games and reaching the dreaded laughing-stock status that they had attained in the mid to late '90's. Their lone superstar wanted out. He was just as sick and tired as the fans were of hearing the dreaded "P" word, a word only used by organizat...