WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The Boston Celtics achieved their main goal of the season, reaching the playoffs with a relatively healthy team.
And that includes Kevin Garnett.
The team’s emotional leader missed all of last year’s postseason with a knee injury that required surgery. But this season he played 40 of the last 42 games, and the two he skipped weren’t for health reasons.
On Saturday night, Garnett and the Celtics will face the Miami Heat. It will be his first playoff game since Boston won Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals over the Los Angeles Lakers to capture its 17th title. It was Garnett’s first championship and he screamed and wept on the Boston court moments after the game.
