help a first time broken hearted fan

[lJesterl]

lol

I am young and never really had a team before. I always like the big 3 seperate and always liked the celtics but once the big 3 came I was in love. Last year it bothered me that they lost but it didn't feel like this. I guess because I expected it with KG out.

But right now I seriously feel like a little girl because all I want to do is cry. It feels like a pet died or my gf broke up with me.

I went through alot these last few months in my life. Started around the CLE series and it was something hard for me to do but i had to do it (not wanting to be to personal). The celtics kept me strong and as sad as it sounds looking forward to there games helped me stay focused and fight the demon I was fighting at the time.

What do I do now that there are no more games? How do I get rid of this feeling and what is the silver lineing in this year. I cant even go to sleep i'm so sad. Maybe some of you can give me some words of wisdom from multiple heart breaker seasons

[Yakmanev]

It hurts but life goes on. Just remember there are people out there with real significant problems.

As long as a basketball game is the only thing we have to worry about we have allot to be thankful for.

[rjsuperfly66]

lol

I am young and never really had a team before. I always like the big 3 seperate and always liked the celtics but once the big 3 came I was in love. Last year it bothered me that they lost but it didn't feel like this. I guess because I expected it with KG out.

But right now I seriously feel like a little girl because all I want to do is cry. It feels like a pet died or my gf broke up with me.

I went through alot these last few months in my life. Started around the CLE series and it was something hard for me to do but i had to do it (not wanting to be to personal). The celtics kept me strong and as sad as it sounds looking forward to there games helped me stay focused and fight the demon I was fighting at the time.

What do I do now that there are no more games? How do I get rid of this feeling and what is the silver lineing in this year. I cant even go to sleep i'm so sad. Maybe some of you can give me some words of wisdom from multiple heart breaker seasons

College student here.

Whenever I'm disappointed about a loss, I dont sleep much, and skip classes the next day.  Usually semi-makes up for it.  Watch some TV (no ESPN) for the next few days.  I'll watch TV until I conk out, and keep my mind of the game.

The silver lining is that you got to watch a team give a championship effort.  Unfortunately, there can only be 1 champion.  Lakers were better team, hands down, than Celtics in this series.

[FallGuy]

lol

I am young and never really had a team before. I always like the big 3 seperate and always liked the celtics but once the big 3 came I was in love. Last year it bothered me that they lost but it didn't feel like this. I guess because I expected it with KG out.

But right now I seriously feel like a little girl because all I want to do is cry. It feels like a pet died or my gf broke up with me.

I went through alot these last few months in my life. Started around the CLE series and it was something hard for me to do but i had to do it (not wanting to be to personal). The celtics kept me strong and as sad as it sounds looking forward to there games helped me stay focused and fight the demon I was fighting at the time.

What do I do now that there are no more games? How do I get rid of this feeling and what is the silver lineing in this year. I cant even go to sleep i'm so sad. Maybe some of you can give me some words of wisdom from multiple heart breaker seasons

College student here.

Whenever I'm disappointed about a loss, I dont sleep much, and skip classes the next day.  Usually semi-makes up for it.  Watch some TV (no ESPN) for the next few days.  I'll watch TV until I conk out, and keep my mind of the game.

The silver lining is that you got to watch a team give a championship effort.  Unfortunately, there can only be 1 champion.  Lakers were better team, hands down, than Celtics in this series.

Two thoughts...

1) A rather distinguished CB poster sent this to me offline earlier today. From baseball writer Roger Angell:

"It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitive as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look -- I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring -- caring deeply and passionately, really caring -- which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naivete -- the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball -- seems a small price to pay for such a gift."

The pain is good. We are all deeply invested in this team. So you gotta take the bad with the good. I'm finding it's getting worse for me as the evening goes on and I see the guys interviewed. Sounds like everybody fell apart in the locker room afterwards. Honestly, watching Doc nearly pushed me over the edge too.

So that's one part of it. You'll remember this when they get back to the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain will be more glorious because of this.

2) Drinking (if you're old enough) and/or comedic diversions help. Assuming you have either at hand.

Stick around though - we'll probably be commiserating together over the next few days... with the odd squabble of course...

[lJesterl]

thanks guys

[Edgar]

abd some of us root since alway,

great game

[westupcali]

I haven't been on here for a very very long time, so i wanna say everyone here in the celtics family keep your head up. We'll regroup, we'll be back...I am not even worried, I'm still wearing my good ol no. 6 Bill Russell jersey, pacific time 11:16pm.  Been getting a lot of hate messages from so called lake fans. But i'm not worried one bit. Whats worse is as a so cal celtic, i live near disneyland and I have to personally deal with these fakers. I am really proud of our team. I am proud i know we can bounce back, and on the reality side there are other more things to be worried about. I love this team. We lost fair and square. We'll be back, this is only the beginning, to be continued...

[ProfanityIsNotAllowed]

lol

I am young and never really had a team before. I always like the big 3 seperate and always liked the celtics but once the big 3 came I was in love. Last year it bothered me that they lost but it didn't feel like this. I guess because I expected it with KG out.

But right now I seriously feel like a little girl because all I want to do is cry. It feels like a pet died or my gf broke up with me.

I went through alot these last few months in my life. Started around the CLE series and it was something hard for me to do but i had to do it (not wanting to be to personal). The celtics kept me strong and as sad as it sounds looking forward to there games helped me stay focused and fight the demon I was fighting at the time.

What do I do now that there are no more games? How do I get rid of this feeling and what is the silver lineing in this year. I cant even go to sleep i'm so sad. Maybe some of you can give me some words of wisdom from multiple heart breaker seasons

Man, no shame in that cuz u know what!? I feel the same way but we need 2 shake it off n we all kno we got the best team we jus fucin get unlucky with injuries and I hope from the bottom of my heart we meet l.a again next season , but no matter what I kno we’re the best team and for tonight ama drink my ass off and turn off my phone 2 ingnore all the lamer fans ..SAD BUT TRUE ..SUCK IT UP MAN  AND RAISE UR HEAD UP HIGH AND REPEAT AFTER ME “ LET’S GO CELTICS”4EVA

[westupcali]

lol

I am young and never really had a team before. I always like the big 3 seperate and always liked the celtics but once the big 3 came I was in love. Last year it bothered me that they lost but it didn't feel like this. I guess because I expected it with KG out.

But right now I seriously feel like a little girl because all I want to do is cry. It feels like a pet died or my gf broke up with me.

I went through alot these last few months in my life. Started around the CLE series and it was something hard for me to do but i had to do it (not wanting to be to personal). The celtics kept me strong and as sad as it sounds looking forward to there games helped me stay focused and fight the demon I was fighting at the time.

What do I do now that there are no more games? How do I get rid of this feeling and what is the silver lineing in this year. I cant even go to sleep i'm so sad. Maybe some of you can give me some words of wisdom from multiple heart breaker seasons

check it we still got one up, 17 they got one less...

[CelticOmega]

Silver lining

9-3 Head to Head - hardly a contest
17 Banners  vs 11 (I don't count 5 from Minnesota)

The only thing real in LA is the smog

[NotGoingBacktoLA]

Be a Laker fan, duh

[celts34pats55]

These times are tough for sure. I'm glad I already cried a bit. After the Pats lost in 2008 it took me a whole week to get myself to cry (I was too numb to do so). The silver lining is that these times really make the great times that much greater. I was born in 84 so I didn't remember when the Sox lost in 86. When 2003 happened I thought it was the end of the world, but then the run in 2004 happened. And, now I can look back and realize how much sweeter the horrible loss to the yanks in 03 really made the comeback in 04. As sports fans we have to earn our stripes. And there's nothing more testing than a loss when you are SOOO close to winning it all. Believe me, I'm personally very hurt. I spent over a grand on tickets this entire season, don't know if I've ever spent over a couple hundred on a single season for any team before. I was planning on putting all my ticket stubs from the year in a plaque type deal and getting it engraved, doesn't make a whole lot of sense now. But, it's okay. I love my C's (okay this is making me start to cry again lol). I got so much enjoyment out of this season. It was a roller coaster ride. We took our lumps, but we kept fighting, and I'll never forget the ride they took us all on. We'll be back. If not next year, or the year after, or the year after that, we'll be back. I watched this team when it was one of the worst in the league, and I'll continue to do so no matter what. Because that's what makes the moments we experienced in 08 and yes even this year that much sweeter.

[Reality Czech]

Get some of the Cleveland and Orlando series on Itunes and soak up what the Celts accomplished. Also, watch Game 5 again if you can; that's the team pre-Perk injury that showed us how great they were.

[horse]

Silver lining

9-3 Head to Head - hardly a contest
17 Banners  vs 11 (I don't count 5 from Minnesota)

The only thing real in LA is the smog

What a stupid thing to say. It's been the same franchise it's always been, it simply moved. The fact is, the lakers franchise has won 16 now and is within 1 of your total. All I see is denial. As for the 9-3 thing, well, different times, different teams, and this laker team just proved to you that they are the better team at this point.

Yes, I did make an account just to respond to that, because it is so absurd.

[pinoycelticsfan]

Silver lining

9-3 Head to Head - hardly a contest
17 Banners  vs 11 (I don't count 5 from Minnesota)

The only thing real in LA is the smog

What a stupid thing to say. It's been the same franchise it's always been, it simply moved. The fact is, the lakers franchise has won 16 now and is within 1 of your total. All I see is denial. As for the 9-3 thing, well, different times, different teams, and this laker team just proved to you that they are the better team at this point.

Yes, I did make an account just to respond to that, because it is so absurd.

Is it really stupid? Consider the consequences, then. If you "give" the five rings to LA, doesn't that mean you're "taking away" the same five rings from the Minnesota Lakers fans? Fans who poured their hearts out to support the team, and without whom, the team would not have had the income to support the necessary victories for those five rings? And if I were Bill Gates or Mark Cuban and I wanted to have an obscene number of NBA championships, I can offer the lakers organization 1 billion dollars and voila! i'm the proud new owner of the Dallas Lakers, winner of 16 NBA championships? does it mean then, that championships are for sale?

Is it such a stupid thing to say?