With nothing else going on at the moment, I think it's good to reflect and look back.
This spring is the ten year anniversary of the 2010 team that made a finals run - the last time the franchise got there. Often forgotten in comparison to the 2008 team, but I think worth looking back at - they're the 2013 Bruins to the 2008 Celtics' 2011 Bruins.
Even though they didn't win game 7 since Perk got hurt and Ray Allen got like 1 for 100 from the floor in the fourth quarter, I still have fond memories of that run - particularly the second round series with Cleveland, back in the old days when we still owned Lebron. Lebron didn't really assert his dominance until 2012 (they beat us in 2011, but 2012 was the playoffs where he became a MAN), and beforehand the knock was that he would mentally crumble under the pressure - and the Celtics in particular owned him. Pierce/KG bullied him and he would choke, it was great. The best part of it all that year was that everyone knew he was an impending UFA and that Cleveland wasn't going to keep him. My fondest memory is the deciding game 6 of the Celtics/Cavs series in the Garden, when we were in control at the end of the game and Lebron got some free throw opportunities and the crowd just started chanting "New York Knicks!" at him. Good times. Good times.
The finals were really good too - two great teams in a slugfest. The image in game 5 of Big Baby Davis and Nate Robinson was magical and could've gone down in history as such if we didn't drop the series. We had two chances to close it out in LA but game 6 was a disaster from the start and game 7 was just frustrating. I hated those Laker teams so much, though I guess I've softened my view a little in light of Kobe's death. It was hard to take at the time though.
That was also the last pure NBA season to me. The last major Celtics/Lakers confrontation, and the last year before superteams ruined the league with the Heat that summer.