By Chad Finn, The Boston Globe This is a stand-alone moment to revel in right now, a championship and a parade to savor. And don’t you know Boston has mastered the art of during this region’s glorious sports century. The Celtics’ parade — more of a rolling fiesta, of course, aboard the duck boats that remain perfect for the occasion — weaved from TD Garden past City Hall Plaza to Hynes Convention Center Friday, thrilling a crowd that giddily basked in the 18th NBA title in franchise history and the idyllic June weather.
It was one more delightful reminder that Boston never looks better than when confetti is fluttering from above. We’ve now done this 13 times — — this century, beginning with the Patriots’ Super Bowl victory in February 2002, and while the Celtics ended the region’s five-year title drought this year, the practical details of a championship celebration in this city are permanently familiar. We know the route by heart, and the beats — chants that are sometimes vulgar, sometimes hilarious, and often both; players acknowledging handmade signs and shouts of their names; an assortment of, uh, refreshments being consumed aboard the duck boats and off — are standard features of the rollin’ good times.
On a day like Friday, there’s no need for to paraphrase a prescient Jaylen Brown quote from the 2022 Celtics’ run to the Finals. The energy is already impeccable. This full moment, this day in Celtics lore, from the brief speaking event at TD.
