Boston Celtics History is Made in Game Seven

This Boston Celtics core will finally get to leave its mark in a game seven at TD Garden

Plain and simple, there is nothing better is sports. Game seven means the ultimate combination of competitiveness with absolutely random results, and there nothing more enjoyable, or more destructive for the fan experience. For the Boston Celtics, however, it will always be a bit more. This franchise has established the greatest standard of success in basketball, and everything was built on game sevens.

Want a clue into how Bill Russell and the Celtics of the 1960s won 11 championships in 13 seasons, take a quick look at how they fared in game seven. The greatest stories in the history of this franchise cannot be told without game seven. They have established unparalleled success that has transcended generations, and now it is the turn of the youngest generation.

Some of these players have experience, and Al Horford himself can tell you what a game seven in TD Garden is like, but things will change on the other side. For Brad Stevens and Isaiah Thomas, along with the the core of players that have been there for this resurgence, this is their first taste of what TD Garden can really mean.

The Celtics have seen the excitement of the fans, they have been inspired night after night. They have seen the hostility towards the opponents, and they see how they a game can actually change by the impact of that home crowd.

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These Celtics have been cheered off the court after being swept in the first round, and they have been booed off the court just in this postseason. These players have spent more than enough time to see the wonder of what TD Garden can be, but tonight something changes.

Tonight these players will, for the first time as a team, have TD Garden behind them in a game seven. It is fitting that it is a matchup where the home team has won 10 straight times, and has more than validated the home court from the number one seed. These players get to start their own history of game sevens in Boston in the best way possible.

Right now, it is uncharted territories. These players have never been in this situation before and, fair or not, how they fare in this game is going to set the tone for what TD Garden can mean to this era. TD Garden is to be feared in game sevens. Forget about being intimidated by opposing players on the court, TD Garden can get into the minds of the opponent, but it takes work to get there.

This season is one that will be remembered for a long time no matter what the results are. Taking the number one seed and being competitive in the playoffs on the eve of the best odds in the draft lottery is something that we have never seen before.

This is an era that, to this point, is defined by regular season success. The very few critics come out and say that Stevens isn’t a playoff coach. The fact of the matter is that we just have not seen and cannot know. Until tonight.

Tonight is not the only piece, it is just the beginning. But in the fast reaction, hot take sports world we all live in, this Celtics core will largely be defined by what they do in their first game seven in TD Garden.

The Celtics know what they have to do to win this game, but they have had far less than desirable results too many times in this series. If the Celtics embrace the moment the right way, and find that TD Garden magic that has been there for every championship core, then there may not be anything the Wizards can do.

A lot of it may just be superstitions, but the anxiety of a one off elimination game to get to the Eastern Conference Finals puts the game in a very fragile state.

This has already been the most exciting series in the playoffs, and we still have not seen the most exciting part. For as ecstatic a victory would be, a loss would be more gut wrenching. The only thing we can say right now is that the Celtics are exactly where they would want to be.

Of course, everyone would have preferred a game six victory, but these are the moments that allow them to become the best possible team. A lot of people are buying into the idea that the finals are inevitable, in which would inevitably make this the biggest game of the season.

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Win or lose, a game seven is the experience that this core needs right now, and there is no better way to start it off at home in a series where home court has decided every single game.

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