Boston Celtics: With C’s, Kemba finally wins his first playoff series

After nine NBA seasons, Kemba Walker has finally won his first playoff series in his first season with the Boston Celtics.

It is hard not to be happy for Kemba Walker after the Boston Celtics defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in dominant fashion, sweeping Philly following a 110-106 victory this afternoon and clinching the first series win of his career.

As we all know, Walker’s first nine seasons were squandered by an inept Charlotte front office that only ever gave him Al Jefferson and a past-prime Dwight Howard. The Hornets were a playoff fixture just twice in his career, once during their days of being the Bobcats.

Now, Walker has already achieved a significant team accomplishment just a year after signing on the dotted line with the Boston Celtics:

Walker was swept out of the playoffs in his first go-around in the postseason by LeBron James‘ Miami Heat. While that wasn’t a championship year, it was still one of the greater first-round mismatches in recent history.

His second postseason trip in 2016 was against a James-less Heat squad that featured the likes of Dwyane Wade, Goran Dragic, Joe Johnson, Luol Deng, and Amar’e Stoudemire. The Hornets took Miami to seven games, but Walker had still not reached the second round of the postseason…until now.

Walker is more than likely looking at a tough matchup with the defending champion Toronto Raptors in the second round, pending tonight’s results. Failing an improbable Brooklyn bubble miracle, it is an uphill climb for the man they call “cardiac Kemba” in the Eastern Conference semifinals…but not one he isn’t prepared to climb.