Ted Green: Hack extraordinaire. (Reaction to Celtics bashing article)

[indeedproceed]

There is a lot to hate about this article, but here is my gripe. Here is where the angry starts.

No. 34, Paul Pierce: He is their best scorer and a load for anyone to guard, including Ron Artest. But the Celtics' captain flops more than a large-mouthed bass taking his last breath while dangling from a fishing line at the end of a pier. Every time Pierce shoots, he acts like he's been hit by a train. Usually, he hasn't been touched.

Two years ago, he fell during the Finals against the Lakers and went off in a wheelchair. An actual wheelchair! Five minutes later, he was dropping three-pointers all over TD Banknorth Garden. He actually came back into the game with the music from "Rocky" blaring over the public-address system. Yo, Paulie, that was such a bad con job, Sylvester Stallone is a better actor than your are. By the way, Pierce's idea of a fun night is going clubbing and getting stabbed. Good times!

If you'll be seeing him for the first time, you'll hate him before the first quarter of Game 1 is even close to over, guaranteed. And by the way, Pablo, your headband is usually crooked.

You're going to say that about Paul Pierce, you ignorant mug?

And just what does Kobe do for fun? (I've heard rumors) You know, besides fantasizing about how awesome life would be if only he could clone himself so then he could stop abusing that life sized Kobe Bryant cutout he had made.

[Bahku]

There is a lot to hate about this article, but here is my gripe. Here is where the angry starts.

No. 34, Paul Pierce: He is their best scorer and a load for anyone to guard, including Ron Artest. But the Celtics' captain flops more than a large-mouthed bass taking his last breath while dangling from a fishing line at the end of a pier. Every time Pierce shoots, he acts like he's been hit by a train. Usually, he hasn't been touched.

Two years ago, he fell during the Finals against the Lakers and went off in a wheelchair. An actual wheelchair! Five minutes later, he was dropping three-pointers all over TD Banknorth Garden. He actually came back into the game with the music from "Rocky" blaring over the public-address system. Yo, Paulie, that was such a bad con job, Sylvester Stallone is a better actor than your are. By the way, Pierce's idea of a fun night is going clubbing and getting stabbed. Good times!

If you'll be seeing him for the first time, you'll hate him before the first quarter of Game 1 is even close to over, guaranteed. And by the way, Pablo, your headband is usually crooked.

You're going to say that about Paul Pierce, you ignorant mug?

And just what does Kobe do for fun? (I've heard rumors) You know, besides fantasizing about how awesome life would be if only he could clone himself so then he could stop abusing that life sized Kobe Bryant cutout he had made.

Wow ... this article just screams ignorance and slime-scraping, and Green needs to crawl back under whatever rock he slithered out from. The flopping barbs are bad enough, (though somewhat expected from such poor losers), but making fun of someone's near-death experience is about the lowest thing I've read in all of sports for a very, very long time ... if ever! Ted needs to get himself a job that's more in keeping with his intelligence and class ... like cleaning toilets or slopping pigs, (though the pigs are bound to complain). Moronic creep.

[Rondo_is_better]

Somebody might be getting murked...no lie.

[Billz401]

Somebody might be getting murked...no lie.

i second this

[GreenFaith1819]

This article is so Funny. If he ever watched Pierce play, that is one of his patented moves and a fundamental move, as well - get your opponent airborne, then move slightly into him.

I remember Pierce abusing Durant and several Sonics (yep, back in Durant's first yr in Seattle) with it several yrs ago..he brought it out in full effect in the ORL series, too - sending Matt Barnes to the cleaners.

Pierce doesn't need the flash of Kobe - he has a signature game all his own.

This guy is certainly scraping the barrel with the stabbing reference..classless.

I've never heard of him - is he an LA writer?

[FallGuy]

This is the kind of crappy journalism we should be excoriating. There's a big difference between this junk and John Hollinger.

[PosImpos]

This is the kind of crappy journalism we should be excoriating. There's a big difference between this junk and John Hollinger.

Fair point, but I don't think anybody really gripes over Hollinger's choice of words or his taste in the way he writes, but rather his manner of argument.  I think it's valid for people to gripe about that, although I agree that often we take his predictions too personally.  He's just a stat-head; he's a big fan of his stats - not any particular team.

[Celtics Fan]

What D'@#H@3d!! Man Paul could of lost his life that night you classless pig. Don't like this guy at all man. The only thing he has going for him is his last name a##h0#3!! Oh yeah....
GO CELTS!!   B!$3HOle!!

What a loser man.

[Dybdal]

Im not a guy to wish bad things to happen to others.. but ive got to say i got up from my chair and walked away from my computer in a silent rage like state after reading that article.

Then i proceeded to tell my dad who then read it, we both agree'ed that Ted Green should choke on pigvomit

[jolly_roger]

I find that article of his extremely funny. Just look at some of his reasons.

Ray Allen: cool dude, but is a Celtic
KG: emotional future HOF, but then he became a Celtic and thus annoying
Perk: honestly, this part sounds to me like he is mad that we have him and they have Bynum
Rondo: too conceited -> he made KG, Ray and PP listen to him because of his skill...if that were me I would show him conceited
Sheed: is old -> best reason of all; I mean you don't have to like Sheed at all but seriously complaining about his age is beyond stupid

I'm too lazy to make that for players he listed (which would be easy) but I guess you get what I mean.

[Frezz]

I've yet to hear someone explain this to me rationally... Do people really think Paul Pierce, who was the best player on the floor, intentionally faked an injury and took himself out of the game? What does he gain by doing that? Why would the guy who's lighting up the Lakers fake an injury and take himself out? Makes no sense.

[RockinRyA]

I've yet to hear someone explain this to me rationally... Do people really think Paul Pierce, who was the best player on the floor, intentionally faked an injury and took himself out of the game? What does he gain by doing that? Why would the guy who's lighting up the Lakers fake an injury and take himself out? Makes no sense.

and if people would observe, pp didnt move as well as before after that. he barely drove to the basket and just settled for outside shots. even when he was hopping from the dugout you could see he is favoring his knee a bit.

[ManUp]

It was a jerk move, but I found the article pretty entertaining it was good for a couple laughs. I want them to hate us. If they didn't hate us it would mean that we weren't do something right. I found the one about Rondo hilarious, "If he were any more conceited, he'd dribble with his left hand and carry a hand-mirror with his right.". The article made me laugh.

[FanInTheSouth]

I've yet to hear someone explain this to me rationally... Do people really think Paul Pierce, who was the best player on the floor, intentionally faked an injury and took himself out of the game? What does he gain by doing that? Why would the guy who's lighting up the Lakers fake an injury and take himself out? Makes no sense.

and if people would observe, pp didnt move as well as before after that. he barely drove to the basket and just settled for outside shots. even when he was hopping from the dugout you could see he is favoring his knee a bit.

I don't think that anyone that has ever had knee problems would think Pierce was faking it.  There have been several times when I felt my knee pop or snap and I was certain that I just blew a ligament, only to have the knee feel better in about 10-15 min.  It's scary when it first happens and I'm sure that's what Pierce immediately thought when it happened.  When I hear people say things like that I just accept them as being ignorant and move on.

[Hila]

Most of the article is very funny, and apparently mostly tongue in cheek (I hate him because he's passionate... I hate him because he plays hard... I hate him because he's confident... I hate him because he's a Celtic).

That makes the crack about the Pierce stabbing stick out even more. A 22-year-old kid almost bleeding to death isn't funny or silly or tongue in cheek.

It's the equivalent of me saying I hate Derek Fisher because his daughter had eye cancer... Jazz fans basically did say that, and that wasn't cool, either.

It's totally OK to hate Fisher for being a cheap shot artist or for being a Laker, though, so I do that.