The 2024 champion Celtics learned from losing the 2022 NBA Finals to the Warriors, and in many respects mirrored them in reaching the mountaintop. Perhaps the most apt historical comparison to the 2024 Celtics might just be the 2015 Warriors.
Each was the first title of a core. Those Warriors went 67-15 in the regular season, lapping the Western Conference. These Celtics went 64-18, winning the East by 14 games and spending the last month of the year on cruise control.
In 2015, believe it or not, there were real questions from the basketball world about whether a jump-shooting team could win a title. For the past seven years, the basketball community has questioned the fit of Tatum and Brown and whether they could complement each other enough to win a championship.
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