Is there any reason left to be a Boston Celtics fan anymore?  Just makes one wonder what the Celts might've given Doc Rivers had he actually won a championship.  The contract extension just another bad move by GM Danny Ainge.

What exactly has Rivers done to warrant an extension?  Some young players have shown some improvement, but the team as a whole has regressed under his tenure. 

Rivers won the NBA coach of the year award while with the Orlando Magic, but even with Tracy McGrady, his Magic blew a 3-1 series lead in the 2002-03 playoffs.  As for his time in Boston, the team won a division title in his first year, the first since 1991-92 in an albeit watered down Atlantic Division.  The Celtics then proceeded to get smoked by the Indiana Pacers in game seven at The Garden. 

The win totals have dropped significantly, from 45 to 33 to 24.  This past season was an outright embarrassment, one the Celtics haven't seen since the M.L. Carr taxi squad days of 1996-97.  It included a season of a horrific trade for Sebastian Telfair, a franchise record 18 losses in a row and a string of purposely tanked games down the stretch.

The Celts obviously have a few nice chips in Al Jefferson, Gerald Green and Delonte West.  However with Paul Pierce becoming seemingly injury prone and older and with virtually no point guard, they better pray that if they're so fortunate to be able to draft either one of them, that Greg Oden and or Kevin Durant turns out to be the real deal, otherwise the long drought will continue in Boston.