My dad was a huge Boston Celtics fan. It's probably not too surprising, since he was an Irish-American who loved playing, talking and watching basketball. He had all kinds of memorabilia scattered around our several homes, from framed pictures and action figures of his favorite players (Larry Bird and Kevin McHale) to refrigerator magnets featuring the go-lucky leprechaun logo. If the Celtics had been a publicly owned team, my dad would have been long, long, long.

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