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 ...
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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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