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Jeff Howe predicts the 2008-09 season...
Long before the TD Banknorth Garden was known as the FleetCenter and the Celtics wore shorts that looked like Speedos, the raising of a championship banner was as routine in Boston as the turning of the leaves.
When the Celtics — and the Bruins, for that matter — went through their lean years, the only banners ascending to the Garden rafters followed the Beanpot in February. Tonight, though, the C’s reclaim their perch as the toast of the town when they receive their rings, raise their banner and open their season against the Cavs.
“I look forward to it a great deal,” Ray Allen said of tonight’s ceremony, which will also involve several Celtics legends. “All summer long, people kept asking me to see my ring. I hate to disappoint them because I probably would never see you again, but I don’t have it. That date will symbolize it a great deal for us because then we would be able to flash it in people’s face for a little while before we put it up.”
It will also serve as the final transition between last season’s title run and this season’s drive to repeat, which no team has done since the Lakers from 2000-02. And despite the Celtics’ 17 championships, they haven’t gone back-to-back since 1968-69.
The task is daunting, and it could be made more difficult by raising the banner in front of LeBron James and the Cavs — who were the Celtics’ toughest playoff opponent last season and improved in the offseason by acquiring point guard Mo Williams — which is like dangling a bloody steak in front of a hungry lion.
But the C’s are in a rare position, as they’re the first team since the 2005 Spurs who look like legitimate repeat offenders, which is a breath of fresh air for coach Doc Rivers.
“I thought we were the anointed champs last year, so at least now we’ve earned that right,” Rivers said. “Last year, I thought we were on every magazine cover we could be on without ever having done anything. That actually kind of bothered me. This year, if we are on one, we can say we’ve done something.”
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