Celtics fans are So spoiled!

[lbgreen33]

Look, I love this forum, I have been reading it for years,But,  most here are spoiled! Sorry, but I have to say it. I just read in another post how Brown was never a good fit with Tatum, WHAT?!!! Seriously!!!! are we watching the same team??? Brown has been a Great Celtic and has meshed incredibly well with Tatum!! I am Not here to debate  this, it is simply a Fact!! Don't believe me well fine, lets look at the Celtics success since Brown and then Tatum arrived: I will start with Brown's rookie year
2016,17 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2017,18 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2018,19 - Made it to the Eastern Conference Semifinals
2019,20 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2020,21 - Made playoffs and knocked out in first round
2021,22 - NBA Finals!!!!!!
2022,23 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2023,24  -  CELTICS WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
2024,25  - Made it to the Eastern Conference Semifinals
Are you freaking Kidding me!!! WHAT More does this team have to do??? What more does Brown and Tatum have to Do? Look it sucks Tatum is out for next year, BUT this team with Jaylen Brown Never missed the Playoffs, come on Man.

[Roy H.]

Don't take Morgan's so seriously.  He's just a curmudgeon.

[lbgreen33]

Don't take Morgan's so seriously.  He's just a curmudgeon.

I know, I truly feel blessed to have this site, people like you on here teach me something all the time! It just drives me crazy that we all don't thank our lucky stars to have the near 10 year run we have had!! It might be refreshing to Not make the playoffs. I mean it's like I was expecting to make the playoffs with this team. Now we have some challenges, but in Brad we Trust! We still have a great team and will be fun to try and get the right people around Tatum when he returns.

[lbgreen33]

Also, I think it is hard to appreciate all the winning till you list it out like that. I mean I lived it, but when I read it I still find it hard to believe!

[Jiri Welsch]

We are spoiled. But we're not rotten.

[Neurotic Guy]

Another interesting fact is that during the Celtics biggest championship drought - between their 1986 and 2008 championships, only 6 other franchises won championships. And in the 15 years between their Cs 2008 and 2024 championships 9 franchises won.  And, between the two wins in 08 and 24, the Cs played in two additional Finals.

 There have been more successful franchises over the last 35 years, but not many.  LAL, SA, GS. Bulls had the Jordan run and Heat is up there as were the Pistons.  That leaves a lot of franchises that wish they were the Celtics - and of course that isn?t counting the Bird, Hondo, and Russell eras.

Yes, I guess you could say we?re spoiled.  Hopefully grateful as well.

[lbgreen33]

We are spoiled. But we're not rotten.

had to give you a TP for that

[lbgreen33]

Another interesting fact is that during the Celtics biggest championship drought - between their 1986 and 2008 championships, only 6 other franchises won championships. And in the 15 years between their Cs 2008 and 2024 championships 9 franchises won.  And, between the two wins in 08 and 24, the Cs played in two additional Finals.

 There have been more successful franchises over the last 35 years, but not many.  LAL, SA, GS. Bulls had the Jordan run and Heat is up there as were the Pistons.  That leaves a lot of franchises that wish they were the Celtics - and of course that isn?t counting the Bird, Hondo, and Russell eras.

Yes, I guess you could say we?re spoiled.  Hopefully grateful as well.

I guess I needed to read posts like this one. So much sadness in the would today, fun to realize we have it pretty good as Celtics fans.

[jambr380]

The vast majority of sadness or perceived spoiled attitude is coming from Tatum's injury and the fast, complete dismantling of our championship team.

Yes, we likely would have needed to move Jrue anyway and we wouldn't have been able to keep Kornet, but a lot of us are still in shock. We thought this was going to go on for several more years. Now we're looking at Niang and Queta as starters and there's no guarantee Tatum returns to full form.

[SparzWizard]

Part of being spoiled is because the East has historically been weak and the C's just happen to make it to more ECFs and took advantage of it. And in the two times they made the NBA Finals, they split 1-1. They could've won both if the chokejobs don't happen in Game 4.

[blink]

Look, I love this forum, I have been reading it for years,But,  most here are spoiled! Sorry, but I have to say it. I just read in another post how Brown was never a good fit with Tatum, WHAT?!!! Seriously!!!! are we watching the same team??? Brown has been a Great Celtic and has meshed incredibly well with Tatum!! I am Not here to debate  this, it is simply a Fact!! Don't believe me well fine, lets look at the Celtics success since Brown and then Tatum arrived: I will start with Brown's rookie year
2016,17 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2017,18 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2018,19 - Made it to the Eastern Conference Semifinals
2019,20 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2020,21 - Made playoffs and knocked out in first round
2021,22 - NBA Finals!!!!!!
2022,23 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2023,24  -  CELTICS WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
2024,25  - Made it to the Eastern Conference Semifinals
Are you freaking Kidding me!!! WHAT More does this team have to do??? What more does Brown and Tatum have to Do? Look it sucks Tatum is out for next year, BUT this team with Jaylen Brown Never missed the Playoffs, come on Man.

TP for waking us all up to the tremendous year after year sustained success that the Celtics have had for the past 9 years.  We all get sucked into the expectations.  So maybe it is good for us to get clobbered for a year with JT out and the ownership clearing contracts for a year.  Might do well for Tatum and Brown as well.  As a player you have to start taking it for granted that you are always in the conf finals as well.  I am hoping we see a super focused squad in 2026-27.

But we still have a 2025-26 team to root for.  No matter what the outcome.

[boscel33]

Spoiled, nah.  Passionate, yeah.  Why?  Snakebitten franchise.

Look at the history of career altering injuries/deaths post Bird draft.  Look at how the NBA handled some of those.  Yep, we're going to sound spoiled for sure complaining about some of this.

[celticinorlando]

Some of us have been following this team since the 1980s and before. The Celtics were lost in the wilderness several times during that span. Injuries, retirements, death of young stars, terrible drafts, bad hires, bad trades, tearing it down, trying to rebuild, missing out on Tim Duncan, KD, etc.

No one wants to return to those days.

As for recently, I think a lot of us expected at least one more title out of this group. Now that seems to be in jeopardy.

As a Celtics fan, what the OP listed is great. But we know this franchise cares about one thing: championships. It has been a good run here. Is this window shut? No idea. Hope not.

But it is not "spoiled" to think 2025-26 is going to be rough. That we had our best player get hurt (seen that before several times) and they gutted a championship roster replacing them with marginal players like Niang, Garza and that other G League dude from Minnesota.

Hope they have success this year. But my expectations are zero.

[tonydelk]

Look, I love this forum, I have been reading it for years,But,  most here are spoiled! Sorry, but I have to say it. I just read in another post how Brown was never a good fit with Tatum, WHAT?!!! Seriously!!!! are we watching the same team??? Brown has been a Great Celtic and has meshed incredibly well with Tatum!! I am Not here to debate  this, it is simply a Fact!! Don't believe me well fine, lets look at the Celtics success since Brown and then Tatum arrived: I will start with Brown's rookie year
2016,17 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2017,18 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2018,19 - Made it to the Eastern Conference Semifinals
2019,20 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2020,21 - Made playoffs and knocked out in first round
2021,22 - NBA Finals!!!!!!
2022,23 - Made it to the Eastern Conference finals
2023,24  -  CELTICS WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
2024,25  - Made it to the Eastern Conference Semifinals
Are you freaking Kidding me!!! WHAT More does this team have to do??? What more does Brown and Tatum have to Do? Look it sucks Tatum is out for next year, BUT this team with Jaylen Brown Never missed the Playoffs, come on Man.

All I see is a failure to finish off a season.  What a terrible team.  Trade JB.  Trade JT and restart with players who can get the job done.  Pathetic.

LOL.  All kidding aside TP.  I have always agreed.  I've been a Celtic fan my entire life.  I grew up in Ohio watching Bird, The Chief, Kevin etc.  I'm the same age as Pierce and got to follow his whole career from start to finish.  Outside of the Celtics and OSU Buckeyes I'm a Browns fan and a Guardians fan.  The Browns don't win.  The guardians have a cheap owner and while they go to the playoffs they don't make much noise because the owner won't pay for superstars.  If I didn't have the Celtics I'd be the most miserable sports fan on the planet. LOL. I love my Celtics.  They are by far my favorite team in any sport. 

Good post!

[Csfan1984]

Even this season I feel people are spoiled and don't realize it. What the C's have is in fact a good roster comparably, all while getting below the 2nd apron.

White/PP/JD
Simmons/Walsh/BS/HG
Brown/Hauser/Minott
Tatum/Niange/Tillman
Queta/Garza/Williams

Without the injuries that is a playoff team and a pretty darn good one. Center is weak but most teams have a center weakness or lack consistent play from that spot. The team still has four starters capable of scoring over 20 nightly. It also has a bench of at least six legit NBA players that can contribute 4pts-15pts off the bench. Assuming all these threats there is no reason anyone at center won't benefit from open looks. We just need everyone back healthy, better collective defense and more action driving to the hoop this year to be back in championship hunt.