Boston Celtics: 2 pickups that would immediately boost morale of Cs fans

Boston Celtics morale-boosting target #2: Isaiah Thomas

With Isaiah Thomas’ NBA comeback currently taking place playing for Team USA in the AmeriCup qualifiers. Thomas scored a team-high 28 points over the two games (stat courtesy of boston.com) against The Bahamas and Mexico.

Thomas’s journey has seen hardships that no one would ever want to face. The crushing reality that his time with the Boston Celtics was over–with the pressure of producing an NBA Championship in Cleveland with an ill-fitting veteran-laden roster–likely took a mental toll on a man who had just lost his sister in a tragic car accident.

Never able to fully recover from a hip injury that forced the chess move from Danny Ainge that sent him out of town to begin the rocky Kyrie Irving era, Thomas was sent to the Los Angeles Lakers to backup Lonzo Ball in his contract year.

Injured again to end the season, he was only able to land on the Denver Nuggets on a minimum contract in the 2018 offseason…and his time in the Mile High City didn’t generate much in the way of career progression.

Flashes were shown in his D.C. stint as a Wizard, but a midseason trade to the Clippers resulted in his release. He hasn’t been seen since.

In a story that would be better than a Hollywood script, IT returning to the Cs to help boost the team back would be the reward Boston Celtics fans deserve after a global pandemic that saw LeBron James win an NBA Championship for the Lakers and Tom Brady win a Super Bowl with a team that isn’t the New England Patriots less than a year after the two sides divorced.