If you were among the legions of Boston Celtics fans who were worried about the direction of the team earlier this season, it turns out you had a prominent member of the organization in your corner.
Appearing on the NBC Sports Boston broadcast in the second quarter of the team's game against the Memphis Grizzlies, owner Wyc Grousbeck admitted that he, too, was worried about the Celtics during their tumultuous first half of the 2021-22 campaign.
"I have to be honest, I was worried the first half of the season and I'm still apprehensive because that's the way it is, when you're a part of it, you worry about every game," Grousbeck said.
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While the Celtics are one of the hottest teams in basketball at the moment, with wins in 19 of their last 25 games to move from three games under .500 to 10 games over, it wasn't long ago where there were legitimate questions about what the future held for the C's.
One thing Grousbeck said he never doubted, though, was first-year head coach Ime Udoka.
"I believed when we hired him and I met him the first time, he's so authentic, so smart, so on it -- certainly somebody I would listen to," Grousbeck said.
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That faith in Udoka was rewarded on Thursday, when he was named the NBA's Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for February. In doing so, Udoka become the first coach in his first season at the helm of the Celtics to earn such an honor.
"I believed that over the long haul we'd get there with Ime, that we'd get to a good place, and I believe we've taken a step that way," Grousbeck said.
