Isaiah Thomas only spent parts of three seasons and 179 total games donning Celtics green and calling Causeway Street home.

Fred Lynn initially punched his ticket to The Show with the Red Sox in 1974 — patrolling center field at Fenway Park over seven seasons. But the gifted outfielder went on to play another 10 years elsewhere, starting with an offseason trade to the Angels in January 1981.

Both Thomas and Lynn’s respective tenures may not have lasted as long as other stars rooted in the Boston sports sphere.

But the Red Sox and Celtics greats both echoed a similar sentiment about what their successful — albeit appreviated — stints in Boston meant to them while looking back.

“It feels like I was here for 10 years,” Thomas said of Boston. “It feels like I won multiple championships and

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