Should the 1984-85 Boston Celtics have won the NBA Championship?

Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes believes the 1984-85 Boston Celtics should have won the NBA Championship. Do you agree?

Sometimes teams have that special quality that just makes them seem destined for an NBA Championship but reality kicks in to tell a different story. The Boston Celtics have experienced having a winning combination on paper without actually winning a title.

Most recently, it was the 2018-19 Celtics. They were coming off of a seven-game series in the Eastern Conference title game and had the returns of Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward to the lineup. We all know how that one went…

But Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes thinks the Boston team that could have–and should have–won an NBA Championship was the 1984-85 squad:

"The 2009-10 Celts took the Lakers to Game 7 in the Finals, a greater achievement than we’ll see from several other teams as we move forward. But the 1984-85 club was just better, so it gets the nod, despite falling in six games to the champion Lakers in the Finals.Larry Bird was in his absolute prime, winning the second of three straight MVPs, and the Celtics won titles on either side of this 1985 disappointment. We’re talking about a 63-win team that proved in the famous Memorial Day Massacre, a 148-114 thrashing of the Lakers in Game 1 of the Finals, that they absolutely had the juice to beat L.A. and win that series."

While that Kobe Bryant-led Lakers championship took a title away from one of the great modern Boston teams, it was the Magic Johnson-led Lakers title in 1985 that robbed from the legacy of the most legendary period in Boston Celtics history.

Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parrish won three titles (1981, 1984, 1986) but could have been seen as an even more historically dominant franchise had they also won the ’85 championship.

What do you think Celtics fans? Was the 1984-85 team the best team that hindsight says could have–and maybe should have–won?

Let us known in the comment section!