Andrew Callahan: Celtics' championship parade brings out the best in Boston
Published in Basketball
BOSTON — You wanted this?
You wanted Boston?
This town, this team, the fight and fabric stitched in between.
How’d that go for you, Miami?
What about you, Cleveland?
Anything to say now, Indiana or Dallas?
Final score: three wins, sixteen losses and one long Friday morning watching the best team in basketball celebrate with the greatest sports city in America, together again.
And what a celebration, what a parade, it was.
A coronation and graduation forged into an hour-long Celtics party for forever. Deafening cheers, chants and thanks from more than a million fans screaming from the bottom of their lungs and sporting souls. Championship joy abounding from the Garden to Back Bay and beyond.
If you’ve ever wondered what it sounds like, what it feels like, to stand at the center of a Celtics win after a buzzer-beater or game-winning shot, Friday was it — for sixty minutes straight.
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