NBA Schedule 2019-20: 5 games with the most revenge potential

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4. Charlotte Hornets at Boston Celtics (Dec. 22)

With Kyrie Irving sidelined during the 2018 playoffs, Terry Rozier took over as the Boston Celtics’ starting point guard and got them to within one game of the NBA Finals.

When Irving returned this past season and pushed Rozier back to the bench, the latter struggled with the transition.

“I feel like I sacrificed the most, but I’d do it any day for this team,” Rozier told Yahoo Sports’ Vincent Goodwill after the Milwaukee Bucks knocked the Celtics out in the second round of the playoffs. “A lot of things weren’t fair to me, but it’s not about me. That’s why I don’t b—h and complain.”

A few days later, he took a blowtorch to the Celtics during appearances on ESPN’s Get Up and First Take.

“We’d have the first five and then we had the second five, and then we’d go out there and I feel like a lot of guys were mixed up. It wouldn’t be the first five and the second five,” Rozier said on Get Up. “What we talked about in practice is not what we went through in the game. It was like ‘we’re going to keep Kyrie out there and put the other guys with him and going to figure out.’”

Although Celtics fans will reserve their harshest vitriol for Irving (spoiler alert!), Rozier likely won’t be spared when the Charlotte Hornets come to Boston on Dec. 22.

Rozier, who has yet to shoot above 40 percent from the floor in any of his four NBA seasons, will be eager to prove that he’s starting point guard material (albeit on an abomination of a Hornets team). Las Vegas oddsmakers can’t set the over/under on his shot attempts that night high enough.

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