TB dumps Skankies -- let's hope Miami dumps Fakers

[Silas]

One Florida team helped out Boston fans.  I'm hoping another comes through!  Go Miami, two more wins!

[wiley]

I'm so interested in Miami winning that I've been referring them to "we" during games...

[Silas]

I'm so interested in Miami winning that I've been referring them to "we" during games...

I understand and don't disagree!  TP for you.

[SparzWizard]

Florida and Boston teams don't quite get along well.

But I'll take any means necessary to watch our historic rivals fall.

[GreenFaith1819]

They probably won't lol.

LeBron and LAL will layeth the smackdown soon enough, unfortunately - leaving ME and the remainder of Celtic Nation sad and moping.

17-17 Boys and Girls.....with LAL being arguably more relevant than BOS, sad to say.

But with our CURRENT youth we WILL be back. Make no mistake about it.

Danny shores up our bench some and perhaps a trade of opportunity and we're right back in this thing.

[kraidstar]

They probably won't lol.

LeBron and LAL will layeth the smackdown soon enough, unfortunately - leaving ME and the remainder of Celtic Nation sad and moping.

17-17 Boys and Girls.....with LAL being arguably more relevant than BOS, sad to say.

But with our CURRENT youth we WILL be back. Make no mistake about it.

Danny shores up our bench some and perhaps a trade of opportunity and we're right back in this thing.

Numbers mean little without the credibility to back them up.

You looked at LeBron's face lately? His head is so much bigger than it used to be, he looks like an ogre now. Guy has been hitting the steroids hard. Dwight Howard too. And the league lets him get away with it.

Not to mention the league has actively cheated for that franchise on so many occasions.

They get nothing but a great big asterisk from me. Their rubber-stamped titles mean little.

[GreenFaith1819]

They probably won't lol.

LeBron and LAL will layeth the smackdown soon enough, unfortunately - leaving ME and the remainder of Celtic Nation sad and moping.

17-17 Boys and Girls.....with LAL being arguably more relevant than BOS, sad to say.

But with our CURRENT youth we WILL be back. Make no mistake about it.

Danny shores up our bench some and perhaps a trade of opportunity and we're right back in this thing.

Numbers mean little without the credibility to back them up.

You looked at LeBron's face lately? His head is so much bigger than it used to be, he looks like an ogre now. Guy has been hitting the steroids hard. Dwight Howard too. And the league lets him get away with it.

Not to mention the league has actively cheated for that franchise on so many occasions.

They get nothing but a great big asterisk from me. Their rubber-stamped titles mean little.

TBH it bothers and embarrasses me as a Life-Long Celtics fan to see the "Steroids" comments about LeBron James.

To ME it is no better than the little old White Lady that would clutch her pocket book as I walked by - afraid of the "Big Ol' Tall Black Man"........

I'm NOT accusing YOU of Racism, Kraid - I believe you're a good person. But this rumor...comment...is unfounded at best and a falsehood until proven otherwise.

What we DO know is that LeBron James places an EXTREME amount of attention on his body - even Kevin Garnett himself reportedly gave this advice to LeBron to help lengthen his career.

Same with Dwight.....for all of his OWN personal struggles to get in the position he's in now I cannot see 'Steroids" being a cause of it.

I get the Celtic-LA rivalry. Lived it breathed it since 1981. During my TEEN years in the 80s their rivalry enabled my love of not only BASKETBALL but also BOS and my RESPECT for Magic.

But we should NOT devolve into unfound rumors and allegations of drug use.

Drugs have been TERRIBLY unkind to BOS.

[Duke4]

If the Celtics & Lakers end up tied at 17 titles each, I believe that Boston is still the premier franchise....for all the naysayers who claim most of our titles came in the "old days"....have you ever heard anyone dissing the New York Yankees and all their titles that began almost one hundred years ago..? I doubt it...in fact, all of them came in the "modern era" when the live ball was introduced...that said, lets remember that the Lakers won five titles between 1949 - 1954...these titles came prior to the original "modern era" that began with the introduction of the shot clock which entirely changed the way the game was played...the Lakers would have to wait another 18 years before winning another title....I don't really care that the titles came in Minneapolis...

The Lakers have been to more Finals to be sure...however, as of today, their winning percentage is .516 at 16-15....when they come up against the East they are basically a .500 team...the Celtics come in at .809 with a dominant record of 17-4...that is a huge difference

The most telling comparison is the head to head matchup....the Celtics have beaten the Lakers in 9 of 12 meetings...that is dominance and I believe that it makes the Celtics the clear number one franchise in league history...I rest my case

[GreenFaith1819]

If the Celtics & Lakers end up tied at 17 titles each, I believe that Boston is still the premier franchise....for all the naysayers who claim most of our titles came in the "old days"....have you ever heard anyone dissing the New York Yankees and all their titles that began almost one hundred years ago..? I doubt it...in fact, all of them came in the "modern era" when the live ball was introduced...that said, lets remember that the Lakers won five titles between 1949 - 1954...these titles came prior to the original "modern era" that began with the introduction of the shot clock which entirely changed the way the game was played...the Lakers would have to wait another 18 years before winning another title....I don't really care that the titles came in Minneapolis...

The Lakers have been to more Finals to be sure...however, as of today, their winning percentage is .516 at 16-15....when they come up against the East they are basically a .500 team...the Celtics come in at .809 with a dominant record of 17-4...that is a huge difference

The most telling comparison is the head to head matchup....the Celtics have beaten the Lakers in 9 of 12 meetings...that is dominance and I believe that it makes the Celtics the clear number one franchise in league history...I rest my case

I get what you're saying....numbers-wise they add up for sure.

But it is hard to explain away 1986 to 2008.

It is hard to explain away LAL's 5 titles in the 80s...to BOS's 3.

It's hard to explain away LAL's run from 99 to 2003....and even THEN making the Finals in 2004 only to lose to DET.

It is hard to explain away LAL's 08-09 title then their REPEAT in 09-10.

And here we are now - with LAL on the brink of winning 17 - unless MIA can somehow stop them.

Relevancy only matters to us Old Dudes who are aware of what BOS did in the 50s-60s. But how many "Old Pro-BOS dudes or dudettes" are on ESPN?

Perhaps the FAIREST Analyst I've seen on ESPN giving BOS props has been Tim Legler. Of course he was the LONE Analyst in 2008 that gave BOS a shot THEN



ESPN Analysts NOW? Lol they clown and joke Pierce and Perkins. And Tim Legler's not on there much.

[SparzWizard]

If the Celtics & Lakers end up tied at 17 titles each, I believe that Boston is still the premier franchise....for all the naysayers who claim most of our titles came in the "old days"....have you ever heard anyone dissing the New York Yankees and all their titles that began almost one hundred years ago..? I doubt it...in fact, all of them came in the "modern era" when the live ball was introduced...that said, lets remember that the Lakers won five titles between 1949 - 1954...these titles came prior to the original "modern era" that began with the introduction of the shot clock which entirely changed the way the game was played...the Lakers would have to wait another 18 years before winning another title....I don't really care that the titles came in Minneapolis...

The Lakers have been to more Finals to be sure...however, as of today, their winning percentage is .516 at 16-15....when they come up against the East they are basically a .500 team...the Celtics come in at .809 with a dominant record of 17-4...that is a huge difference

The most telling comparison is the head to head matchup....the Celtics have beaten the Lakers in 9 of 12 meetings...that is dominance and I believe that it makes the Celtics the clear number one franchise in league history...I rest my case

If the Lakers win this year, we need to win next year and that is a MUST. I don't care if Brooklyn will have Irving/Durant back, or 76ers have Simmons/Embiid/Doc Rivers, or Raptors having Lowry/VanVleet/Siakam, Bucks having healthy Giannis, or Heat having Adebayo/Herro/Butler/Dragic...gotta win like no other.

The Celtics would have smoked the living hell out of the Lakers in the Finals with their wings/guards attacking them all day all night long. Improve that winning record against LAL to 10 in 13 meetings. It's too bad we couldn't get past Miami and their zone. Ainge didn't get them any bigs to help. Those need to be addressed.