Without the benefit of hindsight, what was your favorite Celtics free-agent signing of all time?
I was really high on Dana Barros, and of course Horford, Hayward and Kemba. My favorite, though, was Shaq. He was such a brilliant fit on that team, and seeing him line up with the rest of that 2011 team was amazing. It sucks that his weight and bad injury luck caught up with him, because that was clearly a championship caliber team.
Television doesn’t do the size of that man justice. I was there opening night of that season, and he looked out sized compared to guys like KG, LeBron and Bosh.