DHL Dan CCXXVI - Banner Night

In this week's installment if the Picked Up Pieces column, Shank takes a look at the 2024 - 2025 Boston Celtics:

As Banner Night approaches, the Celtics look stacked, and other thoughts

Picked-up pieces while hoping we somehow wind up with Mac Jones vs. Drake Maye for Sunday breakfast . . .

▪ Tuesday night in the Causeway Street Gym, we’ll interrupt our regularly scheduled programming/nonstop kvetching about the Patriots, Red Sox, and Bruins in order to bring you . . . Banner Night!

That’s right, boys and girls. Banner Night, just like the earlier part of this century when Boston was king of the sports universe, awash in confetti, pumping the duck boat tires every other year for a pomp-fueled promenade down Boylston Street’s Canyon of Heroes.

Your Boston Celtics will be raising their 18th championship flag to the Garden rafters at 7 p.m. Tuesday, moments before their Opening Night joust with the new-and-improved New York Knickerbockers.

Everybody who’s anybody will be there, including all key members of the 2023-24 NBA champs who bludgeoned the league last season, winning 80 of 101 games, including a 16-3 playoff run.