1984 NBA Finals
The Celtics' road to the championship began last year after Boston was eliminated from the playoffs by the Milwaukee Bucks in a four-game sweep in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Soon after, Bill Fitch resigned as the coach and Red Auerbach, the president and general manager, returned the coaching reins to what he calls "the Celtic family." He named K. C. Jones, who had played on eight Celtic championship teams.
"Tonight, I have won as a coach, " said Jones, who had reached the final round as coach once before, when his Washington Bullets were beaten by the Golden State Warriors in 1975. "The guys put themselves together. They accepted a new coach and a new system. I would consider us going to the championship in the first season, a great a accomplishment."
The new ownership, Boston Sports Inc., whose three shareholders include Don Gaston, the former executive vice president of Gulf & Western Industries, which owns the Knicks, and Alan Cohen, the former president of Madison Square Garden, took over the team in August .
But the most important change on the court came last June with the acquisition of Johnson in a trade with the Phoenix Suns for Rick Robey.
The 6-4 Johnson played a key role in leading the Celtics to the best regular season record in the league (62-20), which gave them the important playoff homecourt advantage. The Celtics were 12-1 at home during the 22-game playoff grind.
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Garnett is Looking Explosive
Possibly the brightest sign from camp is that Kevin Garnett is back to his old self. Not that KG wasn’t a game-changer last season, which was his first since having bone spurs removed from his right knee in May of 2009, but he is clearly on another level in comparison to the Garnett of 2009-10.
“Today he was, at one point, unguardable. We were laughing with him today – if we had that post game that he gave us today all year last year, we would have been just a remarkable basketball team. But that’s where you can see it’s finally – the confidence part; last year I don’t think he ever had the confidence to go [post up], we didn’t go to the post to him much anymore because he just didn’t like it down there. This year he wants it down there, and he’s being effective.”
Shaq starting:
Interesting development.
Let's see how long it lasts.
Im really looking forward to seeing the sort of rotations doc goes for.
I'm getting pretty excited myself
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