Tonight King James and the Cavs roll into the Garden and you will hear everyone say, this could be a preview of the Eastern Conference Finals...King James and his men versus The Captain...slow that train down one minute. This is NOT a preview. We will be sans Kevin Garnett and we are banged up generally all the way around. I wouldn't be surprised if Lebron puts a hurtin' on us tonight.

In fact, I might watch the game tonight with the sound down because the announcers inevitably will talk about how Lebron James is the greatest basketball player they have ever seen. While he is definitely up there with the greats, it doesn't have to be said on every broadcast. Give me a break!!

I will say this one thing about Lebron, I don't hate him or his talent, because he seems to be a genuine guy who is just a phenomenal basketball player. Unlike Kobe, who seems to be smug and think he is better than everybody, Lebron goes out and gets the job done, night in and night out with very little to say.

So tonight, I think there will be plenty of talk about the possibility that the C's and the Cavs will meet in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and you know what, that may very well happen and this time the Celtics probably won't have home court advantage, so they'll have to win on the road. Tonight though, will NOT be a preview of that series. Tonight is just another game on the schedule as far as I am concerned...you know except for the opening ceremonies and the horns playing when King James enters the Garden. DOWN ON ONE KNEE SUBJECTS!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWNNNNN

adam@wickedpissadude.com

Labels: Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Kevin Garnett, King James, Lebron James, Paul Pierce

(merry christmas in gaelic - i took 1 semester [yawn])

The NBA regular season schedule is coming out today. Early word is the Celtics open at home with King James and the Cavs on October 28th. Christmas Day will be celebrated at the Dunder Mifflin Center with Kobe and his band of merry Euro-weenies. Maybe Sasha and Pao can meet under the hoop and share a kiss below Kendrick and his kissing balls!

Here it is! - Celtics 2008-2009 Schedule

Labels: Cavs, christmas, christmas day, Dunder Mifflin Center, euro-weenies, gaelic, King James, Kobe, Kobe Bryant, merry christmas, NBA, semester

So maybe I was a bit quick to pull the trigger on panic. At the end of the 3rd quarter, the C's are up 72-63. Nice solid lead and Pierce with arguably the best dunk in the history of the NBA playoffs. Ok, maybe I am overshooting it, but if ESPN is going to say that about King James, I figure I could get away with saying it about Pierce. Check back for the game wrap-up...you know, at the end of the game.

- Adam

Labels: King James, Lebron James, NBA, Paul Pierce, Playoffs

The Celts are on the road tonight for game 3 of the 2nd round of the Eastern Conference playoffs and we all know what happened last time they went on the road in the playoffs, the fell asleep. Literally they fell asleep and almost got beaten by the Atlanta Hawks, yes THE ATLANTA HAWKS.

But my friends, you and I both know that the Celtics are not playing the Atlanta Hawks, they are playing King James (yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn) and the Cleveland Cavaliers. This doesn't just scare me, I just peed a little bit in my pants. I know I know, we shut them down in the Bean, but are we really going to be able to do it in the Cleve? I don't really know.

I had a conversation with one of my friends this afternoon and he started telling me that it is possible for the Celtics to win it all and never win a road game. Hahaha...this is exactly what I would expect a Boston fan to say about this. It's an optimistic thing to say, but it's also got a tinge of pessimism too. Like we're optimistic that we're going to win it, but pessimistic that it's going to take 28 games to do it.

I am writing tonight to tell you that we will win a road game. We will win more then one road game on our way to banner #17. I think Cleveland will win tonight and we will take Game #4. There I said it.

Now I am off to put on my ratty old LB tshirt and cross my nuts and hope we win tonight!!

GO CELTS!!!

-Adam

Labels: Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Easter Conference, King James, Larry Bird, Lebron James, NBA, Playooffs, Regan

I am keeping my fingers crossed that the big 3 have a monstah game tonight because with King James coming off of his worst performance in his playoff history, he is sure to rebound in a big way. That is unless Paul and Ray shut him down, which is a good possibility.

For the record, King James? What kind of nickname is that? It's exhausting. To be honest if we weren't playing the Cav's I would have nothing bad to say about him, so I won't bash on him just to bash on him, but please King James is so presumptious it makes me sick.

So do the Celtics win tonight? I hope so. I think they need to win all four at home. My vote is, let's go undefeated at home so we can win in front of our home town crowd. I mean let's be real, the Sox haven't won either of their two series in Boston, the Pats obviously haven't...here's our chance. Let's win one at home so Red can RIP!!!

GO CELTICS!!!

Labels: Boston, Celtics, King James, Lebron James, Red Auerbach