After finally realizing their NBA championship potential, the Boston Celtics spent the summer breathing a big sigh of relief.
The Celtics, surely swayed last season’s wire-to-wire run of dominance, made talent retention their primary offseason focus and are reflecting running back an identical group.
What’s perhaps changed a bit, though, is which players will enter the campaign with the most pressure to perform. Run this exercise one year ago, and you might be tempted to put Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown under the magnifying glass since they’d yet to prove they could lead their team to ultimate triumph. Now, though, those players are spared from this discussion, leaving the following three players to face the most scrutiny instead.
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