One more for the Road

NBA PLAYOFFS

Okay, so maybe some might not get the Celtic Pride reference. But the fact remains the Boston Celtics are NBA Champions. Cars are being turned over, bars are filled with drunk Irish men and maybe some 20 year old female Sox fan might be killed.

Boston played for keeps in the playoffs and they deserved the win. Kobe maybe the best player in the league but Boston is the best team in the league.

I know some of you will be angry, yet another Boston championship and all that smugness from the New England area will rise, but how about that. A region that was held to no championships since the 1980's and that even included some failures from some Bruins teams and all four Boston teams made the playoffs this year and three of which appeared and almost all three won a crown (sorry Pats). Paul Pierce went from relatively known in the NBA to being well known as he was one of the few original Celtics on the roster this season. Rajon Rondo is getting stroked by Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy and Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett can get that dreaded "never won the big one" title off their heads.

The NBA really wanted this series from day one of the playoffs, hoping to increase the fortunes of the revived league. They really didn't want another Spurs Finals. No one wants another Spurs Finals, well except for Brent Barry and maybe Tim "call that a foul, because I fell over" Duncan. This was being promoted as the Magic/Bird Finals, even though these two teams are filled with players who were barely alive when those games happened. Rondo was born months before the 1986 Finals, so those connections are merely mute and blurry. Though it did allow for another poorly executed split screen commercial with the pensive or thoughtful music.


Sal Fasano Says: I remember when John Havilcek was in college, I was playing catcher for the St. Louis Browns farm club. Or was it the Kansas City A's farm team?