Sport: Remembrance of Things Past

The new Celtics are playing—and winning—as of yore

For any other National Basketball Association team, it would have been bad enough, but for the Boston Celtics, one of the proudest dynasties in all of sport, the past two years were disastrous. It was not just defeat: 103 losses against only 61 wins, the worst record in the league. It was the way the games were lost: Curtis Rowe dribbling endlessly; Bob McAdoo shooting 20 times a game; Sidney Wicks driving into a wall rather than passing to an open teammate. It was not, in...