The will face off against the in the 2024 Finals, giving fans a thrilling matchup with plenty of intriguing storylines as well as incredible basketball. and conclude their surprising run through the by facing off with usual participants and , as both franchises look to break through for the first time in over a decade. battles his former team, , Grant Williams watches as his two former squads compete for a championship, and Boston can retake their NBA lead in titles with an 18th ring.
Joe Mazzulla and Jason Kidd can prove themselves as head coaches by winning this series, and a number of growing legends can claim their first ring. However, among all of these awesome storylines is maybe the biggest one: the facilitated all of this with two franchise-crippling trades. Boston and Dallas will continue to reap the benefits for years to come, and this is just the first big moment.
Brooklyn Swapped Two Valuable Draft Picks For Boston's Aging Stars On June 27, 2013, the Boston Celtics called it quits on the / era after a first-round exit in that year's playoffs. Little did they know that this trade would completely change the next two decades of Celtics basketball because of two of the draft picks that Brooklyn sent in exchange for the two NBA legends. Keith Bogans, Kris Humphries, and Gerald Wallace were all a part of the deal, but never made any impact in Boston.
This doesn't matter to Celtics' fans at all, because the aforementioned picks turned into Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum .
