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Celtics shouldn’t win

Filed Under (Basketball, Sports) by viellissimo on 16-06-2008

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The Boston Celtics are just one win away from grabbing the NBA Finals trophy for this 2007-2008 season. The series is headed back to Boston for Game 6 (and Game 7 if necessary) and will determine who tops this season full of mid-season blockbuster trades, playoff surprises (Atlanta Hawks and New Orleans). The Big Three of the Celtics (Garnett, Allen and Pierce) will try to suppress and end the efforts of the Lakers’ own Big Three (Kobe, Odo and Gasol), or maybe try stopping Phil Jackson make history as the coach who has the most NBA title (10th if his Lakers will win the series). Yet, as a Lakers supporter (for the meantime..), here are the reasons why the Boston Celtics is not deserving of an NBA title:

 

My primary reason is that the Boston Celtics of today will NEVER EVER win against the Celtics of the 80s nor with the Celtics of the 60s. It is for the sole reason that even without a Big Three (only Larry Bird was the legitimate “superstar” of the team), the Boston Celtics of the 80s have won the 3 most recent championships they have, and who would forget the Celtics’ own Bill Russell who earned the first 11 titles (Celtics Total Championship: 14) with the help of Bob Cousy in the 60s, while the Boston Celtics of today struggled in the first round against a young Atlanta Hawks team (Boston has a franchise best 66 wins). Paul Pierce was the only original superstar of this Celtics, so take away Garnett and Allen from the picture and I definitely assure that the Celtics would’ve never gotten past the Atlanta Hawks in the first round. Paul Pierce is just not a leader material. Yes he’s a very good player, but not a championship caliber player.

This year’s LA Lakers deserve the title more than this year’s Celtics. From the tremendous but wonderful change of Kobe Bryant into a “real” leader who passes, dishes, motivates and orchestrates the Lakers into a championship caliber team, the Los Angeles Lakers have just proven the whole world that even without Shaq, it just took them 4 years to regroup and reform the old Lakers back. With the addition of Pau Gasol and rejoining of Derek Fisher, we can look forward to a much exciting Lakers team next season, after they win or lose this year’s NBA Finals, especially with the expected return of Andrew Bynum.

The Boston Celtics however were filled with veteran superstars who never got the chance to go to the NBA Finals in their career. Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, both basketball superstars and Olympic Gold medalists from the 2000 US Men’s Senior Basketball team, were feeling the need to form a team that will enable them to reach the NBA Finals for the first time in their career, because they aren’t getting any younger right? So Kevin Garnett left the Minnesota Timberwolves (his home for 12 years) and his teammates to go for his own glory and Ray Allen left the Supersonics after both their former teams produced consecutive seasons of heartaches and disappointments. As much as I believe, they left their team in order to find a team that’ll get them a championship ring. The point is, they WERE their team’s leader. And as a leader, for me to leave your teammates just like that, ain’t worthy of a championship. Especially with the addition of Sam Cassell and PJ Brown (both “superveterans”) who, again, just joined the Celtics after the midseason (since they believed that Celtics will now certainly give them a championship ring after seeing the league-leading record of the Celtics so far) in order to get championship credits. That really annoys me. (These were also the reasons why I didn’t want the Miami Heat to get a championship last 2006)

 

 

If both teams’ Big Three were cut down to just one, say only Kobe and Pierce face-off and lead their team up against each other in the Finals, don’t expect Pierce to be smiling at the end of the series.


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