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

2020-21 has been a tough year for Boston Celtics fans. Being unable to attend their team’s home games for the first portion of the season while seeing the very virus responsible for that take out several key Cs has made this season a hellscape, to put it bluntly.

Frustrations from an underwhelming free-agent haul have been haunting, as has Gordon Hayward’s career-year in Charlotte. I have eaten my words for that, as fans have shown me the receipts on Twitter for my past pieces about GH:

…yes, even though I posted about Auburn University’s baseball team.

I respect the passion, though, and it’s that same passion Boston fans exude that is making this season sting extra hard. The once-mighty franchise, winners of nine of the ten championships in the 1960s, is now sitting below the New York Knicks in the standings.

It’s clear that an issue Boston has faced this season has been underwhelming play outside of the “Jay’s”. Pointing at the All-Star seasons of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum (who was named an All-Star starter for the first time in his career) and thinking they are somehow the reason Boston is sitting below .500 in a season many saw them as a contender in the preseason is a fool’s errand.

Perhaps the best way to get the most out of the roster would be to find a better veteran floor general.

But Hardwood Houdini has two very specific targets in mind that would elevate not only the roster but also the ailing Boston Celtics fans around the globe: