In recent months, Jayson Tatum and Jrue Holiday have signed lucrative contract extensions, helped lead the Boston Celtics to Banner 18, and now have a chance to capture another gold medal together.
Brad Stevens could not get the smile off of his face the entire time Jrue Holiday was speaking during his Boston Celtics introductory press conference.
The franchise's president of basketball operations and former head coach described the intensity of the new-look Celtics first practice together. A lot of physicality and talking, high-energy, balls flying everywhere. Celtics ownership raised their eyebrows as they painted the picture of their first practice together. Wyc Grousbeck said there were nothing but flashes of the 2008 championship team.
“I’ve tried to get Jrue Holiday on the Celtics for, since I’ve been the coach,” Stevens said. “I know I would go into Danny’s office every year and be like, ‘Hey, can we get Jrue Holiday somehow?’” The piece that Boston’s front office had dreamed of for so long did exactly what the Celtics’ franchise imagined he could do: Help get the team over the hump in its pursuit of Banner 18.One topic of conversation was the five-time All-Star's reaction when first alerted that the Celtics acquired Holiday right before training camp started.“At first I was like I can’t believe Milwaukee let this happen,” Tatum said. “So, thanks to the Bucks.
"But knowing that Jrue had a championship DNA and I had won a Gold Medal with him, I knew what kind of player and person that he was, I knew it was gonna make our team better. We already got KP , we already had a really good team. So, yeah, when we got Jrue, I was pretty confident at what we could accomplish.”
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