Before being traded to the Grizzlies this week, Marcus Smart spent his entire career with the Celtics, starting from when he was drafted with the No. 6 pick in the 2014 draft. In his nine years with Boston, he became a leader on a Celtics team that is one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference.
For the first time since the trade, Smart said goodbye to Celtics fans following his nine years in Boston.
“I came to Boston as a naive kid from Dallas not really knowing what to expect,” he wrote on Twitter. “All I knew was the type of work ethic my momma instilled in me and I was going to work my a-- off and make sure I EARNED the respect of each and every one of the fans in Boston.”
