OFFICIAL: GAME 1 NBA FINALS CELTICS VS LAKERS 6.3.10 9pm ET ABC

2010 Finals is gna be a CLASSIC, even Legendary.

-everyone knows how bad kobe wants his revenge after 08 no matter how much he downplays the rematch
-rondo may be the most important player on the C's. Even if PPierce is #1, rondo gta be 1A. crucial that he plays well, remember in 08 when he almost single handedly won game 6 last year with like 10 steals.

Questions for Lakers:
1) Will the Artest > Ariza pay off?
2) Are the front court of Bynum, Odom, Pau still softies?

i think everyone thinks its for artest to guard pierce, but i get a feeling artest is too old to shut pierce down. and Lakers front court is STILL SOFT. Boston is too complete of a team.









Celtics in 7
 
I HATE Boston. I went to last year's Game 1 of the Finals and I couldn't help but wonder how great it would feel to see the Celtics receive the same beat-down as the Orlando Tragic. But it's going to be a tough series. Rondo should have a pivotal role in dictating the Celtics' pace, and Kobe's supporting cast need to toughen up more than ever. Since the Lakers haven't lost at home yet, I think they have a minor edge in the series. Lakers in 7!
 
I think the series will come down to how well Sheed plays.  If he comes off the bench and is knocking down threes and playing tough D I think Boston wins but he he reverts back into regular season Sheed LA will win.
 
Originally Posted by aepps20

I think the series will come down to how well Sheed plays.  If he comes off the bench and is knocking down threes and playing tough D I think Boston wins but he he reverts back into regular season Sheed LA will win.
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the lazy regular season sheed doesn't exist right now. sheed only plays when he wants to play and he wants to play right now. only thing that will hold him back will be his back issues that could slow him down.... but attitude-wise he's there.
 
if kg plays old, artest locks up the actor, kobe guards rondo and still has enuf energy for offense, and vuja*(#$! guards ray ray ... thas the only way i think the lakers can do this ...

w/ that being said i made a bet w/ a chick picking the lakers to win ... she chose celtics first ... so kobe don't disappear on me or
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Their Lakers bench is Lamar Odom and that's it. Like dude above me said Boston is too complete of a team.
 
Originally Posted by hotbutter

2010 Finals is gna be a CLASSIC, even Legendary.

-everyone knows how bad kobe wants his revenge after 08 no matter how much he downplays the rematch
-rondo may be the most important player on the C's. Even if PPierce is #1, rondo gta be 1A. crucial that he plays well, remember in 08 when he almost single handedly won game 6 last year with like 10 steals.

Questions for Lakers:
1) Will the Artest > Ariza pay off?
2) Are the front court of Bynum, Odom, Pau still softies?

i think everyone thinks its for artest to guard pierce, but i get a feeling artest is too old to shut pierce down. and Lakers front court is STILL SOFT. Boston is too complete of a team.
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i dont think you watch enough laker games then....Artest has been
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on the defensive end
 
Tony allen coming of the bench and atleast bodying/playing some D on kobe can be effective in this series. I think that if he does a descent job, as he did with lebron. Celtics have a great chance of winning it.
 
Tony allen coming of the bench and atleast bodying/playing some D on kobe can be effective in this series. I think that if he does a descent job, as he did with lebron. Celtics have a great chance of winning it.
 
If this series was played 100 times, I think it would be 51-49 Celtics. I really feel its that close.

I hope for Kobe's sake he doesnt guard Rondo. He'll be dead after game 2.
 
nobody mentioning ray ray. jesus been locked in last few gms. is kobe chasing him around the screens all game long? dfish?
 
I'm loving all the people picking the Celtics to win. Celtics have great defense, but as far as the offense goes, I think the Lakers playing the Suns was a huge wake up call for them.

Never been so nervous when watching a team shoot all those 3's. At times, I was surprised they didn't go in. Thank God we don't have to deal with that again, the tempo will be alot slower this game.
 
[h1]TED GREEN: YOUR OFFICIAL GUIDE TO HATING THE CELTICS[/h1]
By Ted Green KTLA News

Well, it's on. Is it ever. Or should I say, it's back on again. The two words in basketball that say so much and mean everything. Heck, they define an entire sport.

Lakers and Celtics.

The NBA's two most storied franchises, two of the most famous organizations in sports history, with 32 titles between them, more than half of the 63 that the NBA has bestowed, meeting in the NBA Finals for the second time in three years and 12th time overall. This amazing, heated rivalry goes back 51 years, to 1959, Elgin Baylor's rookie year; that was the first time they met in the Finals with Bob Cousy's Celtics beating the Minneapolis Lakers, two years before the Lakers moved to L.A.

As a tribute to half a century of antagonism, antipathy, jealousy, mutual animosity and maybe, just maybe, the most grudging kind of respect that will never be acknowledged, but mostly because the Lakers' record in these colossal championship confrontations is an astoundingly embarrassing 2-9, we present today, as a public service to Lakers' fans the world over . . . 

A Guide to Hating the Celtics!

We begin with two storylines, premises, really, that you must understand up front:

1)  The Celtics cry. They cry more than Best Actress winners at the Oscars. They cry like every game is a wedding. Every time a call goes against them, there will be more tears than Kleenex can handle. They cry even after they have to dial 911 to mop up some fallen opponent who's been mugged and beaten within an inch of his life.

2)  The Celtics also foul. They foul on every play. They foul everyone, from stars to scrubs. They foul as a strategy. They foul as a style. They foul as a tradition. They foul hard and they foul incessantly. They foul just for the fun of fouling. They probably foul their own bus driver on the way to the arena.

Now, so you can hate them properly and profoundly, here they are, the Boston Celtics:
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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.

No. 5, Kevin Garnett: Last you may have seen him, he was goin' all Karate Kid upside the arms of Dwight Howard in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals. Hey, K.G., who's your instructor, Mr. Miyagi? Garnett is, or maybe was, a great player, Hall of Fame caliber, but once he joined the Celtics, he officially became annoying, arrogant and insufferable, like the rest of them. He is now impossible to root for in any manner. His emotional tearfest in the immediate aftermath of the Celtics' '08 Finals win over the Lakers remains today one of the truly legendary and awkward postgame microphone meltdowns. One more good cry, which is what you always expect from a Celtic. 

No. 20, Ray Allen: This guy is one of the greatest jump shooters in basketball history. Totally clutch. And he may have the prettiest stroke ever. Money when it matters. He's also a heckuva nice guy, even though his momma stands up too much and looks like she's even cockier than K.G. I know I'm not giving you any reason to hate him, but never forget the overriding issue: that damn green uniform.

No. 43, Kendrick Perkins: This guy looks meaner than Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guarded the gates of Hades. You get scared just looking at his picture on Google images. He looks like he would shove his grandma in the middle of the back if it meant getting a rebound. Perkins has the offensive skill set of your average blacksmith or lumberjack. Instead, he does what can euphemistically be called a lot of the dirtywork for the Celtics, dirty being the operative word. He'll have six fouls by the second quarter, two of which are called. He is also a human moving screen. He sets the only pick in the NBA where the player is actually running full-speed into the man he's screening. This is very often not called a foul, just because he's a Celtic. He is prone to getting technical fouls, usually immediately after waking up in the morning.

No. 9, Rajon Rondo. This is the point guard who is faster than any Laker. He's an emerging star and acts like it, too. If he were any more conceited, he'd dribble with his left hand and carry a hand-mirror with his right. He preens more than TV news anchors. If he has a weakness, other than the villainous franchise he suits up for, it's his shooting. He has trouble making open five-footers in empty gyms, much less full arenas. Just remember this kid is, like, 8 years old and already as arrogant as the rest of them.

No. 30, Rasheed Wallace. This old grump has been an unmitigated pain since he came into the league.   He has two emotions: angry and mad. The technical fine money he's paid could fund many third World countries. He's also at least 52 years old. In every game, bar none, he will a) commit the most obvious foul ever; b) cry to the ref and then, c) act like the whole world is against him. Which, in fact, it is.

No. 11, Glen Davis. They call this one Big Baby. Right on both counts. Right now he's about two Krispy Kremes shy of Stanley Roberts, who ate himself out of the league. If he and Perkins and 'Sheed and KG have 24 fouls between them, trust me on this, they will use all 72.

And now, in the names of Rondo and Hondo, plus the Jones boys, that hatchet, Tommy Heinsohn, the butcher Dave Cowens, that Rambis killer McHale and even Larry Legend and the infernal Cigar, Red Auerbach himself, the NBA Finals are still five days away and I already hate every one of them to pieces.

--Ted Green

Stay classy, Ted Green.
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Originally Posted by xsalvioutlawx

I'm loving all the people picking the Celtics to win. Celtics have great defense, but as far as the offense goes, I think the Lakers playing the Suns was a huge wake up call for them.

Never been so nervous when watching a team shoot all those 3's. At times, I was surprised they didn't go in. Thank God we don't have to deal with that again, the tempo will be alot slower this game.
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So if people were picking your team, you'd be okay right?
 
Originally Posted by Mamba MVP

I'm not gonna lie, I'm hella nervous about this series. Pau and Bynum could get eaten alive out there, but maybe they remember and will do something about it. Artest is going to be a major difference from '08 when Vlad had to guard him
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It should be this way though, we have a score to settle, but it's not going to be easy. Lakers by 5 on Thursday and win the series in 7 games.

Please Lakeshow, man up, my heart can't take another loss to these clowns
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(cept Ray, he's cool)
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Agree 100%
but i think Lakers in 6!

Kobe Finals MVP!

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since most people think it's going to be a close series HCA
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and plz win the first game.

Lakers Dynasty here we come...do not want to see Big Baby in celebration mode.
 
Originally Posted by imINchucks5

Originally Posted by hotbutter

2010 Finals is gna be a CLASSIC, even Legendary.

-everyone knows how bad kobe wants his revenge after 08 no matter how much he downplays the rematch
-rondo may be the most important player on the C's. Even if PPierce is #1, rondo gta be 1A. crucial that he plays well, remember in 08 when he almost single handedly won game 6 last year with like 10 steals.

Questions for Lakers:
1) Will the Artest > Ariza pay off?
2) Are the front court of Bynum, Odom, Pau still softies?

i think everyone thinks its perfect for artest to guard pierce, but i get a feeling artest is too old to shut pierce down. and Lakers front court is STILL SOFT. Boston is too complete of a team.
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i dont think you watch enough laker games then....Artest has been
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on the defensive end
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trust i watch enough, i live in L.A so its on local all year round.  Artest has been stepping up, BUT hes had favorable matchups so far....
Jazz and Suns didnt have anyone at the SF, and Durant is too young, too soft (or just not strong enough), too inexperienced to challenge Artest. 


Big 3's will to win a second chip to cement their legacy OR Kobe's will to win to venge his 08 defeat and get that much closer to his AIRness........
that is the real question......



Garnett's HEART  >  Kobe's
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--Touche.
--No wonder you dont hear any Garnett/MJ comparisons...
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--Anyways, just picked up the LA Times and it matches up Kobe with Rondo and DFish with Ray. I like these matchups.
 
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