Banner Years: 1961, Celtics achieve elite status with third straight championship

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• Banner Years: 1961, Celtics achieve elite status with third straight championship

  (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) | Getty Images NBA history spans 80 seasons, and as CelticsBlog readers well know, the Boston Celtics have won a league-high 18 championships. This month, we are recapping each of those title years. Elite Three-Peat The Boston Celtics reached an elite milestone by winning the NBA Finals in 1961, adding to their 1959 and 1960 banners. They became just the second franchise to collect a trio of consecutive titles. The first was the Minneapolis Lakers ...

  Publisher:Celtics BlogArticle published: 2026-08-06 10:00:00 UTC

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• Banner Years: 1961, Celtics achieve elite status with third straight championship

  It’s History Month at CelticsBlog, celebrating all 18 banners that hang in the rafters of TD Garden. Today we consider how the rest of the league knew it was in trouble

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