Blowouts For Championships
June 18, 2008 – 12:43 am Posted by bryan in » NBA
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They were the best team on paper, the best team in the regular season, and the best team in the Eastern Conference Playoffs this year.
With their 39-point blowout of the Lakers in Game 6 on Tuesday, the Celtics confirmed they were the best team in the NBA Finals as well.
Break out your boomboxes*, the Boston Celtics are the 2008 NBA Champions.
Congratulations to Doc Rivers, the Big 3, and the Big Bench that carried the Celtics to their 17th NBA Title.
Congratulations to Paul Pierce, the NBA Finals MVP who suffered through a brutal stabbing 8 years ago and suffered through watching Antoine Walker take so many terrible shots over the years on those mediocre Celtic teams. Truth be told, you deserve this.
Congratulations to Kevin Garnett, who now has an NBA ring to go along with his League MVP. For the sake of his heart, here’s to hoping he tones it down a notch of three. This guy is so intense, he makes Tiger Woods look like Rocco Mediate.
Congratulations to the sports fans of New England, who better enjoy what they have now, because multi-sport title runs like this don’t happen very often, and rarely last long.
Now, who’s ready for some football?
*on a personal note, 22 years ago the Celtics beat the Rockets for the NBA title. To celebrate, me, my buddy Luke, and my brother Josh paraded around the block of our New Bedford, Massachusetts home with a boombox and homemade signs declaring we were the champions.
Josh called me tonight during the 4th quarter from Boston, where he was watching the game with our youngest brother Jordan. We wondered if Luke was watching up in Toronto, and we both decided to take a walk around our respective neighborhoods when the game was over, just for old time’s sake. I opted not to go with the boombox this time.
5 Responses to “Blowouts For Championships”
By Deanna on Jun 18, 2008 | Reply
“Blowout” is right. To quote my six year old: What does a guy have to do to get a basketball game around here? Ha!
By josh on Jun 18, 2008 | Reply
I took the championship stroll last night with my dog, 22 years is a long time but it seemed like yesterday that the three of us celebrated the 86 victory.
it’s a great time to live in boston
By Luke Gelinas on Jun 18, 2008 | Reply
Did we actually sing We Are the Champions? If not, we should have.
I didn’t stroll. Mostly b/c I’m in Canada. I’m just lucky the Stanley Cup is finished, else the Finals probably wouldn’t even have been televised. Does Kendrick Perkins ever smile?
By bryan on Jun 18, 2008 | Reply
awesome! so glad you guys both chimed in!
By Peter Gaultney on Jun 24, 2008 | Reply
How about congratulations to Danny Ainge, whose been managing over there for who remembers how long, and has taken the brunt of the criticism over the years…and yet was definitely the instrument behind the Kevin Garnett deal and the rest of the assembly of the team that won this year’s championship?