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The Lakers managed to plug the Hybrid back in time for her to yell "jump!" and then the team was off to score a victory that was not sanctioned by either Mark Jackson or Jeff Van Gundy.
So the series presently stands at Celtics 3, Lakers 1 with one game still to be approved by a panel of stylistic experts. This matter is actually covered in the 12th Amendment to the Constitution as well as the NBA bylaws. The deciding vote in these matters is held by Oscar Robertson. So far, he has not been called on to use his vote, but he's on speed dial.
Today's question to ponder or even try to answer:
The last time the Celtics beat the Lakers to win the championship was in 1984. The decisive game was played on June 12. How many total pages did the L.A. Times run the next day in its entire Morning Final edition? For a point of reference, today's L.A. Times had 64 pages.
And now to be no fun. On Sunday, Jackie MacMullan of ESPN.com wrote a story about Doc Rivers and his relationship with his late father and why it would be meaningful for the Celtics to win on Father's Day. It's an interesting story, but hasn't this story been told before.
Now I can appreciate a story about a deceased parent like the next guy. Losing a parent is a deeply emotional experience. But the thing is: almost everybody will go through it during their lifetime. It doesn't ennoble you. It just makes you sad. Does Rivers, who likely isn't seeking any more sympathy than anyone else in his situation, have some special grief that is different than the millions of others in the world in the same situation? Are his accomplishments any greater or lesser because of his father's death?
Presumably Rivers' father is and should be immensely proud of his son's achievements in life no matter where you think the late Mr. Rivers is. Doc Rivers' father sounded like he was a tremendous man.
However. we're all more or less interchangeable in this world when you get down to it. We all have parents. Sometimes great parents. Sometimes lousy parents. We all want to do our best.
vr, Xei
Even the hybrids? Doggone it, Bob, don't give me spoilers like that!
By the way, can you imagine the ratings for a Game 7?
You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away
Or at least Aaron Boone.
yeah I agree weather man, Boston Athletics be damned!
I've asked that before, but I think Dolph Schayes holds that title.
Many of basketball's first stars were Jewish and sportswriters of the time (1920s and 1930s) thought that Jewish players had an affinity for the game.
Lakers just didnt show up tonight.
I thought Kobe would end up being better than Jordan around 2000, but he's not even close.
I have never understood why Kobe Bryant has to be compared to Michael Jordan, sure he made allusions to it when he first started as a rookie but to continually hold this up against him is just not fair.
So, what else is on TV? :-/
6 minutes!
I had forgotten Travis Knight was on the Lakers.
Dear Andrew Bynum,
Are you suuuuuure you can't play tonight?
Sincerely,
Lakers Fan
You're not Travis Knight are you?
I see the light, I'm looking into the light...!
Celtics dont have any olympians do they?
47 I'm a masochist, but I did mute the sound awhile back at least. Maybe there's something good on Fox Soccer Channel.
Maybe Sasha?
That kind of sucks.
Lakers need rest for the summer.
But I think losing this way in Boston will help.
Kevin Garnett had never beaten the Lakers before in a playoff series.
The Lakers are IN the NBA finals. The Lakers won several championships not that long ago. Etc. The Warriors have been also-rans for so long Warriors fans have to grasp on to whatever they can, I guess blind hatred for LA makes them live on for another day.
Radmanovic has the worst basketball IQ I have ever seen.
I have to bite my tongue or else they will get all butt hurt I told them the truth.
I hate the rest.
Also, the city of Boston needed another sports championship.
No, but seriously, congrats to the Celtics, they deserved this one, clearly.
Next year the Lakers should play with a chip on their shoulder, and Bynum at center.
And I agree, I hope Vlad-Rad is gone next season. He is just awful. I don't understand how he's on the team, yet alone starting! That won't be the case next year no matter what, at least.
Next year the Lakers add a (hopefully full-recovered) Andrew Bynum. The Celtics add the last pick in the first round. Thank god Red Auerbach is dead and I don't have to see his cigar-smoking visage gloating once again.
Dumping Kwame, Cook, and Smush was the biggest positive of the season.
Ray Allen just keeps running that same play.
The Suns have to be kicking themselves for being so cheap. They could have had Rondo.
I dont think a game like this does LA any good. Its embarrassing.
You could say that for a lot of their moves.
Late fathers are so fickle.
The Mt. Olympus scenes in "Jason and the Argonauts" also create a funny mental picture of that concept.
I officially hate the Celtics now.
Still really hate Ray Allen. Still hate Posey. Hate Cassell again, after a brief hiatus. Kinda hate KG and Doc Rivers. Fond of Rondo.
Still hate Vlad Rad. Can't deal with Luke. No confidence in Lamar. Big questions about Gasol. Miss Bynum like crazy. Fisher's seems like a good dude, but not an NBA point guard in 2008.
So full of hate...
http://tinyurl.com/5y2qbv
Bynum 5
Gasol 4
Odom 3
Kobe 2
FishFarm 1
Dump VladRad
re-sign Sasha
Ariza should be a key
Ronny is fine
Walton should be of no importance
Terrible way to go down. Season was a success.
I hate Boston.
Boston was so much cooler when they didn't win anything.
That's what the Celtics were doing to the Lakers in the fourth quarter. Even if the Lakers go on to win the next two championships, the stench of this thrashing can never be removed. Or so the Celtics want to think.
yes, indeed. Does anyone else feel like the Celtics poured it on unnecessarily in that last quarter, or should the Lakers share the blame for playing porous defense and looking defeated early? I kind of think it's both.
I keep telling myself, this is 1984, and the Lakers will win 3 of the next 4. Although I'm not willing to concede 2010 to the Celtics just yet.
Bob, I'll guess. I was out before, so I apologize for the delay. I'll say 89 pages.
Eric, how in the world does a newspaper have an odd number of pages?
My head's not right. Forgive me. I change my guess to 90.
I am looking forward to next year now.
And I'm so glad I don't have to hear Mark Jackson anymore. I felt like throwing a shoe at the television every time he described a player as a "knock down jump shooter". He just said it so many time about so many players that it started to make my skin crawl.
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