Posted on 06/17/2008 9:10:29 PM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
Lakers 92 at Celtics 131
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Embarrassing.
Can the Lakers EVER come back from this one?
I wanted to put a Kobe wallpaper on my workstation at work, all ready for the next meeting.
Well, I guess it’s cat piss for me.
Have no fear Laker fans, the NBA pre season starts next week!
It would have been three titles in nine months, if not for David Tyree.
The Celtics put on an amazing show.
The Lakers didn’t even seem to be on the court.
Congrats to the Celtics for number 17
I’m particularly happy for Pierce, Allen, and Garnett. Great season for the Celtics.
Kobe is a spoiled whiny baby. Curt Schilling pegged him.
Congratulations to the Celtics. The best team in the NBA.
Imagine how tough it must be to play for the Bruins, the only Boston team not to make it to the Finals, heck even the New England Revolution made it to the MLS Cup.
Actually, the cat piss was Game 4. That was the last game I watched, and while in the past I would have gone nucular, I just shook my head and moved on with my life.
I’m in L.A. but I have no love for the Lakers.
In fact, basketball altogether can go soak its head.
Do you see how those players act during our National Anthem?
That’s when I turn it off.
I may have spoken too soon. There are a few thousand people losing there minds here in my section of downtown Boston right now. Most are college aged and very drunk. Really drunk.
Lots of police too, thankfully.
Thanks PGA and Doc Rivers.
Would worry more about the Laker fans in LA reacting.
The summertime students.
It could inspire the Bruins to improve next year, never know.
Red must be having a great big smile.
Probably not much different than Gainesville after our three recent championships.
But at least the fans are staying civil, and the police will see to it that it stays that way.
This was almost a carbon copy of the last series between L.A. and Boston, 21 years ago. (although, to be fair, Boston didn't lose the last game by 40).
The team with HCA, the Lakers, won the first two games.
The home team for the next three games won Game 3...ending talk of a sweep.
Game 4 was an epic battle. The home team (Celtics) had an 18 point second half lead. Unlike the Lakers this year, the Celtics had a 6 point lead with just under two minutes to play. The Lakers win by one, courtesy of the baby hook by Magic Johnson.
Game 5 was a convincing win by the home team. (Ok, the Lakers barely scraped by, so there's no comparison there)
Game 6 went back to the team with the HCA...and again, to their credit, though Boston did lose, they didn't lose by 40.
In fact, they had a 5 point lead at halftime...kinda like the Lakers had in Game 1 of this series, in Boston. The Celtics lost that lead in about two minutes, and the game turned on James Worthy's diving steal, tipping it to Magic while on his back. Magic dunked it, the Lakers never trailed again, and Boston did not play in another Finals until this year.
Amazing, the similarities. Home team wins 1, 2, 4, and 6, and at least one veteran who had not previously won a title (Mychal Thompson then, Garnett, Allen, Pierce, and P.J. Brown this year) won.
Congrats to the Celtics for a job well done.
Great to see a former SEC/LSU player by the last name of Davis on the Celtics team. Happy to see a former UConn Huskie player, Ray Allan do so well. Both the Big East and the SEC conferences should be proud. :)
The Celtics just raped the Lakers tonight. They invited the Lakers up to their Colorado hotel room. The Lakers just wanted to be with the Celtics because they were famous, but the Celtics just wanted to take advantage of the Lakers. No one believed that the Celtics could do that, but they did.
Yeah, it was like that.
I said it was cat piss for me.
Is cat piss Celtic Green, or Laker Yellow?
Congrats ... it’s wonderful to see the Celtics come back after all these years. Hope it stays safe in your ‘hood.
Awww, the Boston fans and the LA fans, sure they are going to start a little trouble.
But that’s no biggie, if you’ve never seen what the English Football fans do.
I’m a Manchester United fan. Now, you should see some REAL trouble after a game with Italy. Look out. It’s “going to go off”.
There are no lakes in Los Angeles.
It’s 48 years since they left Minneapolis, and it’s time they renamed the team.
In honor of this historic blowout, how about the LA Losers?
That’s a good one. Or, the LA Oversized Pants with Undershorts Showing. Is that too long?
And you know that the police in Austria and Switzerland are thrilled that England didn't qualify for the Euro 2008 finals.
Even Kobe is becoming marketable again now that he does every interview with his daughters to appear like husband/father of the year and has learned to be more picky with who he fools around with.
Phuqin' A !!!
The Lakers played like they were still at a bar in Redondo Beach.
If I was the Lakers GM I would clean house of the useless European bricklayers. Gasol acted like he was totally intimidated. How many times in the series did he get a good entry pass at the free throw line and pass on the shot.
Bottom line is the Celtics had more heart, desire, better shooters and rebounding.
They wanted it more.
One of the greatest wins, for this Celtic fan in a long time, and I can surely understand the disappointment of the Lakers fans. That was embarrassing for them.
They did want it more, but they also play great defense, which the Lakers don’t, and I believe it came down to that.
Celtics can defend.
If the Lakers want to win a championship, I agree, stop with the euro bricklayers, get rid of the utterly useless Walton kid whose only their because of his name, get some players who can play defense, and get a shooting guard whose good enough to keep Kobe from going into me-me-me mode.
The only part I disagree on with you is Gasol. Keep him.
:-)
I'm glad for Doc though.
He was one of my favorites when he played for The New York Knicks, and I despise Kobe Bryant.
Who's got the last laugh, baby?
You forgot to mention Rajon Rondo, the superb Celtic guard. Rondo is a former Univ. of Kentucky player. From the games I saw, the Celtics would not have won without Rondo’s precision passing, amazing assists and overall defense.
LA coach Jackson said Rondo just picked them apart tonight.
You forgot to mention Rajon Rondo, the superb Celtic guard. Rondo is a former Univ. of Kentucky player. From the games I saw, the Celtics would not have won without Rondo’s precision passing, amazing assists and overall defense.
LA coach Jackson said Rondo just picked them apart tonight.
“Since the Lakers have won five titles since the last time the Celtics won one”
Actually 4. The one in 2002 was a gift from the referees, as I well recall.
The Death Star, (Kobe), is destroyed, but the Emperor (David Stern), still rules.
Oh I forgot Rondo, being caught up in the joy of victory. Thanks Rondo.
Can you elaborate? I do not watch thugball myself, but I am curious.
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