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The Celtics’ championship parade was an all-out nod to their haters
By Bradley Locker,
5 days ago
The Boston Celtics are living it up — and spiting doubters.
On Friday, the team took to the streets of Boston to rein in its record 18th title , which it won Monday night by defeating the Dallas Mavericks in five games.
Finals MVP Jaylen Brown received “MVP” chants while wearing a “State Your Source” shirt, an homage to his post on X in reference to a clip of ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith reporting doubts about Brown and his ego.
The Celtics also sent out 18 victory cigars — a nod to their NBA-best number of titles — with inscribed messages from skeptics to be smoked up at the parade.
On the package it reads: “These are the same kinds of cigars Red [Auerbach] used to smoke. Each one of them comes with the words of all those who doubted a Celtic’s victory this year. We know how that ended. Congrats on banner number 18.”
The Celtics sent out 18 special victory cigars, each with words from those who doubted the team.
Friday’s parade was the Celtics’ first since 2008.
The broader New England region has become accustomed to euphoria with its sports teams, though.
Joe Mazzulla jumped out the window of his duck boat, ran through the streets hyping everyone up, then somehow jumped back into the duck boat even on a torn meniscus pic.twitter.com/3MBSKZ5wGU
— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) June 21, 2024 Celtics rookie head coach Joe Mazzulla was all smiles during the team’s parade. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
With their six Super Bowl titles, the Patriots have thrown parades three times since 2014.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013 and 2018.
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