NBA Finals - Celtics vs. Lakers

[TRON]

 

[3074326]

I didn't realize the Celtics' practice was being aired on national television.

'grats to Boston fans.. can't wait to hear about your fucking city even more for the next five years. (As a note, I don't like New York sports, and I'm not a Lakers fan, I'm just tired of hearing about Boston - also tired of all these new Celtics' fans)

Congrats though. I do mean that. I like KG. Good to see him get a title, maybe his ability to perform in the playoffs won't be questioned anymore. Didn't he have a double-double in every game in the postseason?

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Kobe teen-rapin' Bryant...

fify.

fyfify

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

Boston just wanted it more the entire series, and it really was apparent tonight. They dominated in every phase of the game. Sadly the Lakers failed to show up like every other team I like that makes it to championship games lately.

Congrats, Celtics fans.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

Nothing but horns and sirens outside right now.

and douche bags, lots of them I'm sure


:p:dead:

 

[OSUBuckeye4Life]

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Yahoo!

Celtics wins 17th NBA title with 131-92 rout of Lakers


By TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer 5 hours, 41 minutes ago

BOSTON (AP)?With Russell and Havlicek sitting courtside, and Red surely lighting up a victory cigar somewhere, these Boston Celtics returned to glory like the great teams before them.
Dominant in every way.
On a new parquet floor below aging championship banners hung in the rafters two decades back, the Celtics won their 17th NBA title and a first one?at last ? for Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen?their Big Three for a new generation.
After 22 long years, the NBA has gone green.
Lifted by ear-splitting chants of ?Beat L.A.? early and cries of ?Seven-teen? in the closing seconds by their adoring crowd, the Celtics concluded a shocking rebound of a season with a stunning 131-92 blowout over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 6 on Tuesday night.
?It means so much more because these are the guys, the Havliceks, the Bill Russells, the Cousys,? Pierce said. ?These guys started what?s going on with those banners. They don?t hang up any other banners but championship ones.

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[buckeyesin07]

It's kind of funny that almost everyone in the media thinks that Kobe's a much better overall player than LBJ, yet even though Kobe's surrounded by much better talent than LBJ, the Cavs pushed the Celtics to the brink of elimination whereas the Lakers weren't really even competitive in their series with the Celtics.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Yahoo!

Lakers quit on present, look to future

By Johnny Ludden, Yahoo! Sports 2 hours, 4 minutes ago


BOSTON ? Tuesday night bled into Wednesday morning, and, still, there was no sight of Kobe Bryant. The rest of the Los Angeles Lakers long since had collected their egos and cleared out of the locker room. For nearly an hour, their captain had ensconced himself in a back room with a few team officials as company. Just outside Bryant?s door, the Boston Celtics whooped and celebrated their champagne-soaked championship.
?Yes sir, 17!? Paul Pierce shouted to anyone who would listen. ?Might get another one, too!?
One by one the Celtics bounded down the hallway. Sam Cassell yelled for his son. Championship cap pulled low over his eyes, smile stretched across his face, Ray Allen jogged into Boston?s locker room. Big Baby shimmied in front of the TV cameras. Bryant could hear them all.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Yahoo!

wait finally over for Garnett
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 2 hours, 8 minutes ago

BOSTON ? Everyone else rushed the Garden floor, dissolving into a dizzy delirium. Even now, Kevin Garnett had his own path, his own private journey. He marched to center court, dropped to his knees and K.G. kissed the leprechaun.
All his life, he had been searching for somewhere to belong, something to make him forever. For so long, the Minnesota Timberwolves had no history. They had no banners. They had nothing but him. He had resisted this trade to the Boston Celtics, but Paul Pierce told him: Give this city a reason to love you, and they?ll never stop. He always found himself stealing glances to the banners above him, stopping a moment before flipping that No. 5 jersey over his head and running his fingers over that logo of his uniform.
He?s such an old school character born of a different day, a different time. He has such traditional values about basketball and family, but circumstance never allowed him to be part of something with staying power, something with fabric, something forever. Soon, he turned around and there was his conscious waiting for him, the ghost of Celtics past, the standard of it all.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Yahoo!

Big 3 leads Boston to big win and a 17th NBA title

By JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer 2 hours, 24 minutes ago


BOSTON (AP)?Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen came to Boston to win a championship. They never would have gotten the chance if Paul Pierce hadn?t stuck around.
The Boston Celtics rode their three All-Stars to their record 17th championship on Tuesday night, blowing by the Los Angeles Lakers for a 131-92 victory in Game 6 of the NBA finals.
It?s the reason why Garnett and Allen came to Boston last summer.
And it?s also the reason why Pierce stayed.
?We said from Day 1, ?This is Paul?s team,?? Garnett said. ?Ray and I had no problem with that.?

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Yahoo!

Pierce has jumped from good to great in Finals

By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports Jun 17, 4:47 am EDT


BOSTON ? Between the end of the worst season of his life, and the beginning of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, there had been a passage of time when Paul Pierce had word delivered to Danny Ainge: Get me help or get me out.
Pierce had waited for his chance to be one of those generational Boston sports icons, and the Celtics had stopped surrounding him with a fighting chance. It was getting late in his prime, late in his patience. He watched Tom Brady win his Super Bowls and David Ortiz his World Series, and he could take it no more. This town is the best in the world for winners, and just the worst for everyone else.

These forever New England stars are remembered for the most clutch championship performances. Pierce was the forgotten, dismissed talent, a victim of unfair circumstance when the city never had less tolerance for losing causes.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Victory is sweet......

BOSTON - JUNE 17: (L-R) Ray Allen #20, Kevin Garnett #5, and Paul Pierce #34 of the Boston Celtics poses for a portrait with the Larry O'Brien trophy after defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in Game Six of the 2008 NBA Finals on June 17, 2008 at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Celtics won 131-92. NOTE TO USER:User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)

Defeat is agony......

BOSTON - JUNE 17: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers talks to the media following Game Six of the 2008 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics at the TD Banknorth Garden June 17, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92 to win the championship. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2008 NBAE (Photo by Randy Belice/NBAE via Getty Images)
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BOSTON - JUNE 17: Sasha Vujacic #18 of the Boston Celtics sits in the locker room looking defeated after losing to the Boston Celtics against the Los Angeles Lakers in Game Six of the 2008 NBA Finals on June 17, 2008 at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Celtics won 131-92 to capture the NBA Championship. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright: 2008 NBAE (Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images)

BOSTON - JUNE 17: (L-R) DJ Mbenga #28, Ira Newble #14, Lamar Odom #7, Chris Mihm #31, Pau Gasol #16 and Vladimir Radmanovic #10 of the Los Angeles Lakers watch the final moments of the Lakers' loss to the Boston Celtics in Game Six of the 2008 NBA Finals on June 17, 2008 at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright: 2008 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE/Getty Images)

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

espn.com

Pierce wins MVP and big three take care of business in Finals

Associated Press

Updated: June 18, 2008, 7:44 AM ET

BOSTON -- It's the reason Paul Pierce stuck around when the losses mounted and the solution was far from clear. The reason Ray Allen was acquired as a draft-day consolation prize. And the reason Kevin Garnett agreed to leave the only pro team he'd ever known.
The big three has won the Big One.
The Boston Celtics rode their three All-Stars to their 17th championship on Tuesday night, blowing by the Los Angeles Lakers with a stunning show of second-quarter scoring to win 131-92 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
Pierce, the Finals MVP, had 17 points and 10 assists in the clincher, Garnett had 26 points with 14 rebounds, and Allen returned from a red-eye from the coast and a poked eye in the lane to add 26 points, including an NBA Finals record-tying seven 3-pointers.

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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

espn.com

Commitment to defense delivers title No. 17 for Celtics

By John Hollinger
ESPN.com
(Archive)

Updated: June 18, 2008

Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
Celtics guard Rajon Rondo had seven steals, helping Boston's defense suffocate any Lakers' hopes.

BOSTON -- From opening night, when Boston held Washington to 83 points on 35 percent shooting and forced 20 turnovers, to the championship ceremony, when the crowd spontaneously chanted "de-fense!," the Celtics' swarming, suffocating D was the dominant theme of the 2007-08 NBA season.
With the arrival of Kevin Garnett and the addition of ace defensive assistant Tom Thibodeau, Boston had the third-best defensive efficiency mark since the league began tracking turnovers in 1973-74, helping them to league-best 66 wins despite fairly modest offensive numbers.
In the playoffs, it got them through choppy early rounds when the offense sputtered and Ray Allen in particular hit a nasty shooting slump. And in the Finals, it helped them put the clamps on Kobe Bryant and a Laker crew that had been an elite offensive team since acquiring Pau Gasol. L.A. shot only 44.1 percent for the series and scored just 93.5 points per game.
At the trophy ceremony Tuesday night after taking the NBA title in six games, Celtics coach Doc Rivers said "defense" was his first word to the team. "We play defense, we're going to win a world championship, and that's exactly what they did. They were phenomenal all year."
On cue, the "de-fense!" chants rained down from the raucous TD Banknorth Garden crowd, and it couldn't have been more fitting on this night. Boston cemented the championship with one of the great defensive halves in league history, holding the Lakers to 35 points at the break, on 29 percent shooting, and breaking their spirit in the process.

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