In order to understand how it came to pass that The Next Great Celtic will soon be known by a new name — Most Disliked Former Boston Athlete Ever — we must rewind the digital recorder until we come to a television commercial that had the whole town buzzing.



Kyrie Irving’s Nike spot is 58 seconds of feel-good, hometown pride that makes you want to run outside and have a catch with your father, just like in “Field of Dreams.” It begins with Irving and his father appearing from out of a TD Garden runway to play some one-on-one, with the lights low and the spirits high as the son says to the dad, “Ahh, man, what better place?”



And right there, with that one line, the man is making his case to be The Next Great Celtic.



If you could pick any place in Boston to play one-on-one with your dad, you’d choose the parquet, right? Just as you’d pick the shadow of the Green Monster to have that catch with your dad.