On this day: Celtics tie greatest single-season turnaround in history
On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team tied the NBA record for the biggest record turnaround in a single season for any team in league history.
The team they tied was the 1997-98 San Antonio Spurs, who went from 20 – 62 the season prior to 56-26 the next. Boston went 24-58 in 2006-07, and the victory, a 92-77 win over the Indiana Pacers, gave the Celtics a 60-15 record so far that season (they would finish 66-16, losing just one more contest that season). Still, for the Celtics, the regular season record was far from the focus.
“We’re well past where I’ve been,” said Paul Pierce via the Associated Press.
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
“I’ve only won 49 games. Sixty is all good. We have a bigger picture in mind.”
That bigger picture would be realized with Banner 17, but that is a story for another day.
Steve Alford tries to push his way past Fairfield’s A.J. Wynder during the NCAA tournament first-round game, March 12, 1987.
It is also the date that Celtics point guard AJ Wynder made his debut for the team in 1991.
It came in a 94-77 road blowout of the (then) New Jersey Nets (now, Brooklyn), and saw the Fairfield alum put up 4 points, hitting his sole field goal attempt and both makes from the line.
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