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John from Hemet wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Of course I knew that.....the playoffs are not what I am talking about here.....I am talking about the type of play it took for the team to get the 1st seed in the strongest western conference in history. This does not even take into consideration what he has done in the playoffs.......

What are you doing here?

LucerneStDoggz wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



What are you doing here?

Talking...(not trolling)

Waiting this long for game one is unbearable. But, I am glad the Cs have nearly a week off. Should help negate all the extra games played.

If you forgot some of your Lakers/Celtics history and want to brush up on it, ESPN Classic is going to have a marathon starting Monday.

Here's the schedule:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/stor ... icschedule

the Lakers ball washing going on in the national media is amazing.

The whole 'no respect' thing from teams usually seems contrived, but the Celts have a legit reason to play that card. Almost no one is giving the Celtics a chance despite having the best season and now winning on the road.

I think I will just skip the build up.. I thought there was supposed to be the east coast bias? The articles (see Doyle at NBC for a start) are just awful!

O man, its been a sweet ride to the finals baby!!!! Ive been waiting along time to see garnett wearing that jersey with the little trophy patch on it. Take it kev, same goes for ray and paul. Your time is now, prove them all wrong.

Doubt I dropped by here already, but thanks for advancing to the Finals. We're about to restart one of the greatest rivalries in professional sports, and I'm stoked! Well here's to a hell of a series! Congrats on your success so far and I look forward to Game 1 at the Garden. Here's to beautiful basketball!

Iceburg Slim wrote:Doubt I dropped by here already, but thanks for advancing to the Finals. We're about to restart one of the greatest rivalries in professional sports, and I'm stoked! Well here's to a hell of a series! Congrats on your success so far and I look forward to Game 1 at the Garden. Here's to beautiful basketball!

Hopefully we go at it at least a couple times more in the future championships to make it really special.

goodluck.

Oh no doubt man, I don't want this to be the last meeting. Bring on Boston for seven more years!

GreenGrizz wrote:It is Phil Jackson I am after. He is a cheater. He is not going to breatk Red Auerbach's winning titles record.

Lol! Why is Phil a cheater, or is it the latter part that you don't want Red's record broken?

Great game thread! Having flashbacks of Kareem, Magic, & Worthy vs. Parrish, Bird, & McHale. Hopefully we can add to the history. Looking forward to it except I have 2 say BEAT BOSTON! LOL

anklebreaker702 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Lol! Why is Phil a cheater, or is it the latter part that you don't want Red's record broken?

Phil might be considered a cheater for accolades. Every team he's led far has had a lot of talent. He's never taken a bad team anywhere.

bru87tr wrote:-= original quote snipped =-




how about we make a bet on it ? though I am not sure you would come through if you lost.

we win you replace your avatar with a PP rules avatar for a year. if you win I do the same with your fav player. deal ?

let's do it man, if my team wins you replace your avatar with....sasha vujacic!!!

i feel blessed to have written in this thread... this is something ill deifnately tell my grandkids

Albanian Damien wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Phil might be considered a cheater for accolades. Every team he's led far has had a lot of talent. He's never taken a bad team anywhere.

Come on man, check your fact. Red had all the talent when he won his titles. The Lakers were the only competition he had. Phil deserves credit for 2 reasons. 1. When he took over the Bulls & Lakers reguardless of the talent that was there, they never won a title until he arrived. He was willing to comback to the Lakers after being kicked to the curb then returned -Shaq. The only big trade in these past 3 1/2 years was Gasol other than that the draft pics worked out & Phil get credit for helping these guys reach their potential. You have to take off your Green & White shades on this 1 & re-think what you are saying. In Red's era it might have been different if we had Wilt in his prime to go with the other players but we didn't. The Celtics had a stacked team (Look how many are in the HOF & jersey's are retired)

I'd like to see Gerald Green win his ring

I want Gabriel to get his well deserved ring.

Gabriel Michael Pruitt.

Albanian Damien wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Phil might be considered a cheater for accolades. Every team he's led far has had a lot of talent. He's never taken a bad team anywhere.

I think I'm forgetting all those coaches that took bad teams to glory...

LucerneStDoggz wrote:I want Gabriel to get his well deserved ring.

Gabriel Michael Pruitt.

lmao. KG has never gotten a ring, nor Pierce or Ray.

Pruitt might get one this year

C 's fans, feel free to discuss Game 1 in the Laker Board's official game thread.

Keep it civil please.

http://realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=795227

Good luck guys. SHould be an epic match up!