Celtics face tough roster decisions in quest to defend title.. full details below ⏬

Questions abound outside Boston’s “top six.” Now that the Boston Celtics have officially brought home Banner 18, it’s time to look back on the entire epic playoff run that led to this moment.

The Boston Celtics have just begun their 2024 NBA title celebration — one that’s likely to stretch deep into the summer — but the NBA offseason will not wait for them. Free agency essentially opened as the same moment Jayson Tatum was screaming, “We did it!” 

The 2024 NBA Draft is this week. On Sunday, Celtics reserve forward Oshae Brissett reportedly opted out of the final year of his deal, and while it was a formality that doesn’t necessarily ensure his departure, it’s a quick and firm reminder that things are unlikely to look exactly the same when the Celtics huddle again in October.

.Even as the team was navigating a dominant playoff run, the front office was prepping for what’s ahead. President of basketball operations Brad Stevens is prepared to potentially make the first Round 1 draft selection of his tenure as executive.

His to-do list is otherwise fairly straightforward, in part because of the constraints the new collective bargaining agreement will put on how the Celtics can tweak an expensive roster.Stay in the game with the latest updates on your beloved Boston sports teams! Sign up here for our All Access Daily newsletter.Still, it’s on Stevens and his staff to target the complementary pieces that can take stress off a returning top six and give Boston every opportunity to ride duck boats through the city next summer. So let’s put down the Larry O’Brien, briefly, and take a big-picture look at Boston’s offseason.