After finally realizing their NBA championship potential, the Boston Celtics spent the summer breathing a big sigh of relief.
The Celtics, surely influenced by last season’s end-to-end dominance, have made talent retention their primary focus this offseason and feature an identical group of running backs.
What may have changed a bit is the question of which players will enter the campaign with the most pressure to perform. If you were doing this exercise a year ago, you might have been tempted to put Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown under the microscope, as they had yet to prove they could lead their teams to ultimate triumph. Today, however, those players are spared from that discussion, leaving the next three players to face the greatest scrutiny.
