The Boston Celtics, Eastern Conference Champions of the 2008-09 season
This is far from a bold prediction. The only other team that anybody could argue would stand in the Celtics way is the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons play the ultimate five man game in the NBA. Chauncey...
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So why has the American sports fan continued to ignore the NBA? Yes, the game looked more like close-quarters hand-to-hand guerrilla warfare in the 1990s. Only Michael Jordan could carry the league...
View ArticleDavid Stern’s Christmas Carol
Christmas has to be David Stern’s favorite holiday. Baseball only has its fanatical fans counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report to their Florida or Arizona home (40 days). Football...
View ArticleNBA Midseason Award Melodrama
I will never be a professional basketball player. The market for six-foot white guys with a broken jump shot with absolutely no rotation on the ball, barely enough hops to touch the rim, and the...
View ArticleThe 2009 NBA Trade Deadline and the 2010 Free Agents
Not much happened this time around at the trade deadline as the league has moved on from the Boston Celtics title run in 2008 and has moved onto the practice of making trades in the hopes of acquiring...
View ArticleSlumdog, the Celtics and the Quest for the Perfect Season
So this weekend Slumdog Millionaire won an impressive eight Oscars out of ten. That kind of dominance is rare in any field. Few musicians have been able to impress the entire Grammy community, sorry...
View ArticleFixing the Collective Suck-itude of the NBA
The NBA is in trouble. It looks more and more like a lockout will ruin any progress the NBA has made to win back fans that they alienated the last time the league went into lockout mode in 1998. Fans...
View Article2011 NBA Conference Semifinals: More Worth Getting Tickets For!
Looking at the next slate of NBA playoff series, I have to be excited for the countless hours of basketball I will be watching over the next week and a half. Yes, the Boston Celtics are playing the...
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