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July 9, 2012 · 5:46 AM

Judas

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Friday morning the reports started surfacing that Ray Allen spent the night in Miami. Since the Clippers signed Crawford and Billups it wasn’t a huge shock. Why rush back to Boston.

Then in the afternoon the reports were Ray Allen had left Miami without signing or making a final decision.

Sports talk radio, ESPN.com and others started speculating. Most people were saying the Heat but fans thought not signing or making the decision while he was down there meant he was coming back to Boston.

Then as I’m sitting at the bar Friday night watching the Sox blow the first of what would be three out of four to the Yankees, reports started coming in.

Ray Allen chose the Heat.

I saw the Jesus is now Judas Facebook quotes (thus your headline), Shuttlesworth is Judas not Jesus, traitor, and on and on it went.

So joking I ask the question, “Do we get to keep Ray’s Mom in the trade?”

At the end of the day, joking aside, you didn’t want Ray back. You just didn’t want him going to Miami. A two year deal for a 37 year old guard coming off ankle surgery seems absurd. So Miami giving him three years is downright dumb.

Reports now are that the C’s are players for Courtney Lee from Houston. He’s no Ray Allen but Danny has to move on and keep trying to build us a winner.

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June 22, 2012 · 6:14 AM

Stern’s Plan Comes Together

Well David Stern must be waking up very happy this morning. After making sure the officials screwed the Celtics out of game two in the Eastern Conference Finals only to see them storm back, take a series lead, but still lose in seven to help his TV dollars he got his team in the Finals.

He got his NBA poster boy Lebron James in the Finals. And what happened with his poster boy in the Finals? Well, they won of course.

Forget about teamwork and fundamental basketball. Forget if the best team will actually win it all. Nope, let’s manipulate the officials so Stern gets the match-up he wants. A far cry from the NHL that just had a #8 seed win the entire thing.

Stern has been manipulating things for years. Most recently before the Heat’s trip to the Finals it was the draft lottery that I’d wrote about last week. Here’s him and Jim Rome having it out.

Look you little weasel, we know it was fixed. We know that you absolutely made sure that Lebron would be in the Finals. You made sure your poster boy would be there. More TV ratings for casual fans.

Based on the current commissioners in the four major sports, I want Stern gone first. These jackasses just had a labor stoppage that cost them a third of their season. What was resolved during this lockout? Nothing. The caps are still a mess, you still have stuff that confuses everyone in relation to the cap and free agency, and the have-nots really are going to stay that way for a while.

When you look at how much the NHL was able to due in their last lockout with a HARD cap. It sucked losing hockey, but we got a smart GM in Chiarelli in there and he has managed very well in the hard cap system.

Really, all sports need to have a hockey salary cap. Baseball’s cap is a joke as is their revenue sharing. Basketball’s is too hard for the common folk to figure out. The NFL’s cap seems to be a joke when teams are over and can still bring in guys (cough, Jets). If all teams were handcuffed like NHL teams, you’d never even see a Miami “big three” scenario. The cap wouldn’t allow it.

Bottom line, fire David Stern. Enough of the manipulation. We get it. You can do crazy things. The only thing better is if you just teamed with Vince McMahon of the WWE and started scripting your events together.

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June 11, 2012 · 5:58 AM

Bummer

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Like I told you on Friday, I had a gig Saturday. My call time was four and with the wedding going till midnight there was a pretty good chance I wouldn’t be home till 1:30am. So watching the Celtics wasn’t going to happen (the way I wanted anyways).

Now in a true reflection of how much technology has advanced we’ll recap. You used to get a text that your team won. Then you could get scoring updates texted to you. With the web on your phone you could check scores when you wanted. They added the ability to watch highlights with your scoring update. But they had one more step…

Watching it live. Streaming it live on your phone. There were two tables of a dozen or so guys huddled around their phones watching the game during a wedding.

We checked our phones when we could. Saw the C’s up a dozen or so but it was just checking. When we were tied heading into the fourth, the iPad that was being used for charts all of a sudden became a TV to watch the game.

And it was all downhill from there. The Celtics, much like they did in game six, went cold. Meanwhile Lebron was driving the lane like it was his job. To the tune of a 20-4 run to close out the game. I even saw Bosh drain a three just to add insult to injury.

And like that, the era of the Big Three finally ended. Two years too late.

I still contest that if Danny never made the Perkins trade, the C’s get more than one title from this group. I’ll believe that my whole life.

Brando (our resident Laker fan) was quick to point out that the rebuild is starting. Yup. All we as Celtics fans can hope is that it will be a quick turnaround.

With only the Sox to occupy the Boston sports scene for the next three months it’s going to suck. Two game under .500 and in last place tends to make for a sucky baseball summer.

Can’t wait for the Pats to start.

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June 8, 2012 · 5:28 AM

Only 45?

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Full disclosure; I had rehearsal last night and didn’t tune in until the beginning of the second quarter. The Celtics were already losing, but I wasn’t worried.

After seeing OKC down 18 the night before, I thought the C’s could storm back. Turns out Lebron wasn’t going to let that happen.

Shit.

When Ray Allen nailed a three in the second quarter and cut the lead to seven, I thought this was the start of the comeback. It wasn’t.

The C’s would get it to ten a few times but they were ice cold from the three point line. When they went down 20 in the fourth with about eight minutes left, I turned it off.

Lebron dropped 45 on the C’s. He stepped up and owned the game. I thought a little into the third he’d drop 60+ on the Celtics. He was that good yesterday.

The Celtics on the other hand stayed ice cold. Without the three, they’re sunk.

Now they’re set for a showdown in Miami Saturday night. Thank God I have a gig. I don’t think I can handle the stress of a game seven.

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June 6, 2012 · 6:47 AM

Worth Staying Up

After the first quarter I was mad. The C’s were only down eight but were playing something awful. They couldn’t buy a bucket. They’d started the game down 7-0. Then they went down ten and I was getting more an more upset. To the point that I thought I’d be in bed at the half and would see how it ended in the morning.

But the C’s didn’t quit like that had in the first game. It wasn’t officiating, it was just shots not going in. At the half they’d cut the lead to two.

Wow, we have a game.

When they fell down nine again in the third I questioned myself again. Really, I’m giving up eight hours of sleep for this? Ugh. But the C’s decided to go on a run to finish the quarter and at the start of the fourth they’re up five.

Please don’t disappoint me. Please…

The Celtics dropped down six with about six minutes left and again I flip flop to the “I should be asleep” mentality. Of course Pietrus nails a three that cuts the lead in half and I’m still buying in. OK, maybe I don’t need to sleep.

Flash forward to the final minute. Celtics up one. Pierce has the ball and heaves a three. Now I’d thought as they were running up the court, a three would make it a two possession game. Pierce was ice cold from behind the line most of the game only hitting one of his five attempts. But when it counted, he nailed it.

Celtics up four.

52 seconds of basketball left with a four point lead. How long is this going to take, 10 minutes? I pondered it on Facebook for all to see.

Can we seriously make a rule against this in the NBA? How about an intentional foul in the last minute gets you five shots? Something. It’s painful to watch the last 15 minutes (time wise not game clock wise) of a close NBA game. Someone look it up and let me know, how successful is the intentional foul for the team losing?

After about 10 minutes, the Celtics win. 94-90. I go to sleep happy. Seeing that little kid, “Good job, good effort” was outstanding. The hashtag blowing up on Twitter with that phrase, even better.

Now they’ll come back to Boston tomorrow night to try and punch their ticket for the NBA Finals for the third time in the Big Three era. Here’s hoping.

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