It seems newest Boston Celtics big man Tristan Thompson has had his eye on the team for awhile.
An old tweet of the former Cleveland Cavalier resurfaced of the NBA champion center talking about watching the team hang Banner 18 while he was still preparing to join the University of Texas Longhorns in the summer of 2010.
Still more than a year removed from being drafted by the team where he would spend his entire career in the league before joining the Celtics, the Toronto native shared his thoughts on how Boston’s Game 7 against the Los Angeles Lakers was going to go.
Finish working out,Gonna rest until I watch my celtics be crowned there 18th NBA Championship
— Tristan Thompson (@RealTristan13) June 15, 2010
“Finish working out, gonna rest until I watch my Celtics be crowned [their] 18th NBA Championship,” tweeted a younger version of Thompson.
Evidently the man was serious when he said he’s been watching a lot of Celtics games in his introductory press conference earlier in the week.
While we all have the benefit of hindsight behind us to know that is not what happened for the Celtics that night unfortunately, but flash forward a decade, and the Canadian may well be precisely what the doctor ordered to help his Celtics finally seal the deal on Banner 18.
