Jeff Van Gundy winning first NBA title with Celtics would just feel wrong

DALLAS — Listen, it's not the equivalent of Wade Boggs taking a victory lap around Yankee Stadium on a horse. That's an image of betrayal Bostonians took about eight years to get over — until their Red Sox fell in a 3-0 series hole in the 2004 ALCS and … never mind, too soon. But it'll still be difficult for Knicks faithful to see (or at least imagine) Jeff Van Gundy, a main character of the Knicks' last golden era, getting his first NBA title with the friggin' Celtics. Van Gundy was unceremoniously dumped by ESPN before last season — a poor decision by the network exacerbated by the drifting minds of his replacements (Doc Rivers, JJ Redick). Van Gundy joined the Celtics as a senior consultant