Save the last dance
BOSTON GARDEN – The Celtics have two more picks to make (Nos. 32 and 35), but most of the crowd has gone home here at tonight’s draft party (the bar is still open, but the food is almost gone).
Celtics legend Tommy Heinsohn is still here, as are about 75-100 of the 700 invitees. Two of the diehards described the scene this evening.
“The reaction [to the Ray Allen trade] was mostly positive,” said Dan Kelly of Peabody. “There were more cheers than boos.”
To Kelly, the deal fulfilled a team need.
“Everybody knows we needed another veteran to make [Paul] Pierce happy,” he said.
“We needed another scorer,” added Redding’s Cam Twiss, son of Celtics spokesman Jeff Twiss. “With Pierce and Allen, it really opens things up for [Al] Jefferson.”
The Celtics obviously hope the move pays off at the box office, and early signs suggest they will. One Celtics staffer said he and a colleague both sold several season ticket packages immediately after the trade was announced.
“One guy told me right before the trade, ‘If this happens I’ll buy it.’ And he did. He had cancelled his season tickets two years ago.”
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