So much for the claim that this season would be better for the Celtics in regard to covid.
The only way they could really guarantee that nobody catches Covid, vaccine or no, is to put everyone in a bubble and prevent them interacting with anyone. So they have about as much chance of catching Covid as the rest of us who interact with other people. Vaccines don't prevent infection, they reduce the risk of serious illness and hospitalization. So hopefully it doesn't put them out for as long as it may have last year with no vaccines, as their recovery time and time infectious would presumably be shorter. Last season we had players missing for weeks at a time, hopefully this year it will be 10 day stretches.
It's not really about guarantees, which, as we all know, are impossible in this situation. It's about being as careful as is reasonably possible, and last season I felt as though the Cs were somehow
not being as careful as possible—I was shredded by a couple of people for having that view, but I still stand by it. The Cs were far and away the league leader in player-games missed due to covid or covid protocols, and I just don't see how that could've been a simple matter of extreme bad luck. Boston players missed 157 games—their closest "competition" was the Mavericks with 118, which is quite a gap, and the NBA average was 55.3. The Hawks, Pels, Cavs, and Pacers had fewer than 10 each, and I can't imagine that was all due to just good luck. Given all of this data, it seems to me like some teams were really staying on top of things and some (including Boston) weren't. So maybe they'll lose fewer player-games this season, since many of the guys are vaccinated, but continuing to have multiple players missing any time at all due to covid is really going to mess with the team.