Looking to rebound from a sluggish Game 2 performance Sunday at Golden State (the 19-point defeat was their largest of the postseason), the Celtics return home for Wednesday’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals at TD Garden. Hosting their first Finals game since 2010, the C’s are pulling out all the stops, treating fans to a halftime performance by three-time Grammy winner Nelly.
Nelly’s relevance has admittedly waned in recent years, though he’s still a big draw among hip hop fans, particularly millennials who grew up on Country Grammar, which topped the Billboard charts for five consecutive weeks upon its release in 2000. The rapper hails from St. Louis, the same city that produced Jayson Tatum, Boston’s leading scorer this postseason at 26.3 points per game.
The Finals brought plenty of A-list celebrities to the Bay last week—Jay-Z, Michael B. Jordan, Spike Lee and Giants great Barry Bonds were among those in attendance—and Game 3 should be just as star-laden, headlined by one of the iconic rappers of his era, a lyrical genius who birthed pop-culture staples like “Ride wit Me” and the incomparable “Hot in Herre.”
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