Being a fan of a sports team means taking the rough with the smooth. It means having dreams, and overly investing your mood for the rest of the week into them. It means having a strong and precise understanding of your own team’s weaknesses, however many of them there are, yet still believing the opponent on any given night is somehow worse. It means going through the Cycle of Hope – the dreams of what is possible, the often crushing reality that it isn’t going to happen, the hope that it might do with some tweaks, and the sad acceptance when it eventually doesn’t. Rinse and repeat, repeat to fade, etc. Rarely does that hope work out. In the case of the Boston Celtics, however, it just did.