When your home team wins a championship there is a lot of great things that come out of it. Living in Boston, we have been fortunate to have gone through this experience more than a few times recently. One of the things I enjoy most about these championships is the books that come out detailing the how the titles were won. When the Red Sox first won back in 2004, there were practically hundreds of books that flooded the market. I should know as I think I read most of them. The same can be said for the Patriots and I think I have read all of them too.

The latest example of this trend of winners in Boston is the Celtics of 2007 - 2008. The incredible run to the championship is well documented in this book by former Globe Celtics Beat Writer Peter May. May has covered the local hoops team for years and he does a nice job detailing how this incredible team was put together. To me it was amazing to see what had to occur for Danny Ainge to be able to put this team together the way he did. I think a lot of casual fans thought it was easy. Ainge just traded for KG and Ray Allen and the rest is history. If only it was that easy. Everything had to go just right for this team to become a champ. From not trading Paul Pierce a few years ago, to being “unlucky” in the 2007 draft lottery, to being adamant that Rajon Rondo was the point guard of this team and not including him in either the KG or Ray Allen deals, and to not firing Doc Rivers (although there were FIRE DOC web sites all over the internet) everything fell into place just right.

This book does a great job on showing the characters that made up the 07-08 Boston Celtics, individual by individual, from the Big Three to Big Baby. It also details how each player or coach came to be part of this magical team. Each player took a different route and each person had a  different story that was well described by the author. Like most, I have been a fan of the Celtics for a long time. I grew up in the original Big Three era. And like most fans I lost some interest over the past few years when the team continued to rebuild and rebuild. I am not too ashamed to admit that I became much more interested once the KG trade was announced. I followed this team pretty regularly and thought I knew much of how this team was put together. That was until I read this book. This book is a must read for any fans of the “new” Boston Celtics as much of the information in this book is so interesting and is stuff I never knew about before. The behind the scenes information and the individual stories are fascinating and I feel any Celtics fan will fall in love with this team even more after reading this book.