On Sunday, the Vineyard boys basketball team suited up for a game against arch rival Nantucket. They wore their traditional uniforms and boarded the ferry as they had for countless away games.

But the destination was to a place they had only seen on TV or watched from the stands to see the Celtics play. This time, however, they would be the ones running up and down the famed parquet floor of TD Garden, beneath the 17 championship banners hanging from the rafters, and the ceiling adorned with the retired numbers of legends.