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How is it possible that after like 2 months, that spanish newspaper, lost in translation, is still making headlines?

And the Las Vegas incident? Paul should be given a citizenship award for having an alcohol blood level under .08 in Las Vegas at 3am.

How is this news? Isn't Team USA playing? Isn't that more interesting? I'm tired of this ish.

RealGM is just as bad......allowing anything anti-Pierce to go on. Nuthugging Kobe is the norm......Locking anything anti-Kobe......
Ain't life grand........the season is soon coming around the bend.......

yeah I didn't like that realgm headliner, with Pierce saying how he was the best, but not having him explain how you need to have that kind of confidence if you're going to win. I mean the guy included Perkins and Rondo as the top 5 players in the NBA. He's krunkin, let him be.

Thank you for this thread, hopefully some meatheads listen

Yeah, all this Anti-PP34 propaganda is bull.

LucerneStDoggz wrote:Thank you for this thread, hopefully some meatheads listen

They won't...this is the Internet, after all.

Who gives a crap what all the other people say? Pierce is the Truth and is a stand-up guy.

I'm not worried about the pull-over, I just hope PP comes to camp in shape. If so we will be alright

At the end of the day we won #17 and the "new Lakers dynasty" was aborted...I'm usually anti-abortion but in this case I was all for it!

As a long time Patriots fan, if people can dislike Tom Brady because of his success they can dislike anyone. I'll personally take the envy if it means we're winning. Plenty of opposing fans hate Brady, and what has he ever done wrong... screw beautiful women? The C's are champions, which means any chink in the armor is fuel for the haters, but it's all just sound and fury.... signifying nothing.

End of the day, he's a champion and not even the haters can deny that.


But hell, if I was a Laker fan and the Laker Killer [a.k.a - The Truth] did that to me in an NBA finals, I would try hate on him too.

As a Yankee fan I eat this **** up with a shovel, especially since the Yankees aren't the Yankees anymore and the Patriots are. War everyone not being able to sleep at night because #34's greatness. Hell if you say he is the best enough times people will start believing it, it worked for Grant Hill and Vince Carter and they never won a damn thing.

The best thing about this kind of thing and Paul is that he has a punchers mentality and he will step up when it is on TV against Lebron or Kobe and if he doesn't have it well that KG guys is always there.

http://mvn.com/nba-celtics/2008/08/03/the-underrated-paul-pierce/

I feel for Pierce - he's been a Celtic for 10 year cripes sake. I chalk it up to being a bit punch drunk if anything, and the Las Vegas incident that followed the Spain interview supports that he's just kickin' back and enjoying the long hard ride he's had to the Championship along with Garnett and Ray Allen, compared to the younger Kobe's piggy-back ride on Shaq's coat-tails during there three-peat. . . .

Does anyone appreciate the fact that you can't just throw a bunch of stars together and expect things to work out unless the incumbent star like Paul Pierce is totally on board with the ubuntu thing? He's talking now, but I like the fact that he's already defending the title in 2009 while kickin' back this summer.

I'm a Paul Pierce fan and always have been. I always believed that he was one of the best players and certainly one of the most underrated players in the league. That said, I can definitely understand why fans of other teams and players are up in arms about Pierce's brash comments because after winning his first championship in 1991, Scottie Pippen made a similar comment in saying that he was the second best player in the world behind Michael. It was the most idiotic statement I've heard at the time and it made me furious because not only were Bird and Magic still in the league, but there were so many other great players like Isiah, Barkley, Hakeem, David Robinson and Drexler who I thought were all better than Pippen. I never knew much about Pippen until then, but I definitely hated the guy and rooted against him ever since because as a diehard fan of other great players (mainly Bird) of that era, I felt my heroes were disrespected.

I can understand why others are annoyed with Paul, but you have to approach things from his perspective, too. The guy's been snubbed by many an NBA broadcaster (Barkley, Walton, Breen, JVG, even Reggie Miller) over the years and at varying times in his career. Meanwhile Carter, McGrady, Wade, and even Joe Johnson, Ben Gordon, Luol Deng, and Brandon Roy get more positive press despite mediocre-bad teams and limited individual success. It wouldn't surprise me if Detroit's "Big 4" were all looked upon as better individual talents than Pierce before this season.

Now you're Paul Pierce. In the first round you matched up with Joe Johnson, one of the best wing players in the league. 2nd round you face off against the most talented player in the league and actually hold up damn well against him. 3rd round you embarrass the defensive specialist of Detroit in Tayshaun Prince. 4th round, you outplay a guy the commentators can't go 3 minutes without calling "the best player in the world".

Regardless of how Paul's statements have been misconstrued, you can't BLAME the guy for having a chip on his shoulder. He slogged through 4 of the best small forwards/wings in the league and outperformed them all on the biggest stages in the game. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Pierce used that media ignorance of his ability as motivation. All I can say is it worked, and now everyone that ever doubted him is left with egg on their face.

I find it amusing that Pierce makes the Wiretap on Realgm twice for non stories. But, yet the recent Gary Coleman incident doesn't even get mentioned once. That was more newsworthy.



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I don't know, I can't help but think PP is bringing this on himself a little more than this thread may suggest. The American public loves humility, like when someone asks Brady if he is the best QB in the game, and he would say: "no, I think Peyton is, what he does on the field just amazes me." That is savvy (and I know some people hate Brady too). But I think Paul's answer begs for criticism, because it screams arrogance. Having the confidence to play this game at the level Paul does is absolutely necessary. Feeling the need to say he is the best, is not necessary, period. I think it puts a black eye on him as a person, on his credibility, and I really wonder what KG and Ray Allen are sitting at home thinking right now.

This whole season the big three were a great story, it was all about the big three. The previous two seasons when the team was struggling and then when Paul was hurt, it seemed to be all about him. Everything he said. I just hope he isn't reverting to this team being all about him.

It's a dumb thing to say, period.

If anybody else in the league said it, all of the Pierce ball-washers on this board would be laughing at that player for providing bulletin board material for the entire league next season. You don't think that that comment is going to be brought up in a Game 7 next year against Cleveland or L.A., maybe on their court?

With that said, he has a right to live it up. But please, tone it down about a notch or three.

And getting stopped for driving under the influence of something is not a petty matter. For crying out loud, grow up. The risk he is taking is not of getting fined, but of making a serious mistake that could hurt other people physically in addition to himself.

Rondo_Fan wrote:And getting stopped for driving under the influence of something is not a petty matter. For crying out loud, grow up. The risk he is taking is not of getting fined, but of making a serious mistake that could hurt other people physically in addition to himself.

He was pulled over for erratic driving, not DUI or DWI, and passed the breathalizer test anyway. Sure he made a mistake, but it's really not as terrible as you're making it out to be.

Rondo_Fan wrote:It's a dumb thing to say, period.

If anybody else in the league said it, all of the Pierce ball-washers on this board would be laughing at that player for providing bulletin board material for the entire league next season. You don't think that that comment is going to be brought up in a Game 7 next year against Cleveland or L.A., maybe on their court?

With that said, he has a right to live it up. But please, tone it down about a notch or three.

And getting stopped for driving under the influence of something is not a petty matter. For crying out loud, grow up. The risk he is taking is not of getting fined, but of making a serious mistake that could hurt other people physically in addition to himself.

I can garensheed that if Grant Hill said what p2 said everyone would be like, "Oh Grant is so right about being confident, what a great guy, did you hear he listed his starting five as the top 5 players in the nba? wow Grant Hill, what a guy...."