Jason Terry loves being a Celtic.
He’s getting fresh Celtics ink. He’s hanging with the fine folks of Boston and working on the accent. He’s having fun in a city that embraces its basketball team like few others.
Oh, and he’s hating the Heat and Lakers.
Terry is blogging his experiences this season for ESPNBoston.com and authored this:
The Celtics/Lakers rivalry is the NBA gold standard, because it stretches back more than 50 years and one of those teams wins a ring in half those seasons.
But the Lakers are the problem the Celtics hope to have to deal with. Doc Rivers is spot on — the Heat are the first hurdle between Boston and its goal. Boston’s roster is put in place to match up with the Heat and would give them a challenge. But still, they have to get there and be ready for a Heat team that beat them last year and will be better this time around. Doc gets it.
And Terry gets it. And he gets being a Celtics.