“Damn, how did you know the announcers were going to say that?” is a common question I get whenever someone watches a Celtics game with me. I am the type of person that could stay up hours upon hours reading anything related to the Celtics. The love I have for the game came from an early age. I played basketball for most of my life, from recreational basketball in elementary school, to travel basketball in middle school, to varsity basketball in high school. My final competitive game of basketball came against one of the most storied high school programs in the country, Saint Anthony’s, coached by the legendary Bob Hurley. That was an experience I will never forget. When it came to decision time to where I wanted to go to college, I decided to take my talents to the couch and become a professional sports watcher.
When I went to college, I went from playing basketball every day to playing two or three times a week. With more freedom and time I now had for being in college, it allowed me to study the game of basketball. It allowed me to study the Celtics in particular. I’ve been a Celtics fan my whole life but between all the sports I played growing up I didn’t have that time to study them. I told myself during the 2014 NBA Draft that I will try and watch every Celtics game I possibly could. That season I ended up watching ~60 of the 82 regular season games. We made the playoffs that year as the 7 seed but got swept in the first round to LeBron and the Cavs.
My sophomore, junior, and senior year of college I watched about 80% of all the Celtics games and the games I could not watch, I would be on my phone always checking the score. I love the game. I love everything about the history of the Celtics and the history of the game of basketball. After graduation, I decided to go to law school. What is special about me going to law school? I go to law school in the same city where basketball was created, Springfield Massachusetts. It’s only fitting that I start my blog not only where the sport was invented, but also in the state my favorite team plays, the Boston Celtics.
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