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Boston Celtics

A Requiem for a Team

By Ryan McGowan

The last three years were more than I ever would have hoped for on May 22, 2007, when I sat down at my old Brighton house on Newton Street to watch the NBA draft lottery.

At the time, we Celtics fans were hoping for the mathematical near-certainty of landing at least one of the top two picks, widely expected to be Ohio State center Greg Oden or Texas phenom Kevin Durant.  When the ping-pong balls fell in the other direction, landing the Celtics at #5 and the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle SuperSonics at 1 and 2, the collective chests of Celtic Nation breathed a huge sigh of disappointment.

Another crappy year gone.  Another hopeless offseason coming up.  And certainly another year without a banner, 22 and counting since perhaps the greatest Celtic team ever ramrodded the Association for Banner #16 in 1986.

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General Sports

6/10 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: NBA Finals

Wrapping up the Stanley Cup Finals, focusing on the NBA Finals, and talking about the old thing we know about the World Cup: Wags and betting.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Flyers fall to the Blackhaws
  • Jeremy Roenick – he’s good.
  • Steven Strasburg’s unbelievable debut.
  • Golden Tate’s late night donut run
  • The best World Cup prop bets (Wayne Rooney to stomp on someone’s genitals at 150/1)
  • NBA Finals.  Ryan guarantees Boston victory in Game 4

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Boston Celtics

18 and Life

By Ryan McGowan

Dave Cowens, #18 himself, said it best on Friday night.

“Go out there on behalf of the NBA and Red Auerbach and all Celtics present and past,” he said, as he presented the Eastern Conference championship trophy to Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck, “and bring home No. 18.’’

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General Sports

June 4 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

We’re making predictions on the NBA Finals and talking a lot of basketball. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Rooting for Kobe?
  • Was LeBron a sore loser? (Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser – Vince Lombardi)
  • Will there be another 300 game winner after Randy Johnson?
  • The Mike Tyson Movie clip / the prison guy from In Living Colour
  • Cleveland completely hosed by SI Cover Jinx
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NBA General

Cleveland – San Antonio Series — Youth vs. Experience

The NBA Finals features two teams with many similarities. First, you have teacher Greg Popovich and his student, Mike Brown, former assistant under Pop in San Antonio. Brown and Cleveland General Manager Danny Ferry, who was an executive with San Antonio before landing in Ohio, have tried to mold the Cavs in the shape of the Spurs.

Defense is the name of the game for both teams with the Spurs ranking second in the league in defensive efficiency with the Cavs not far behind at fourth. Offensive efficiency is where San Antonio has a significant edge over Cleveland.

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Cleveland Cavaliers

Make it a series- Mike!

For Mike Brown and the Cleveland Cavaliers, there are two ways to look at the reality of being down 2-0 in the NBA Finals to the San Antonio Spurs: they pack their tails between their legs and run away, or they make adjustments and take the fight to the Spurs.

For the fans of the NBA, and fans of quality basketball for that matter, we pray it’s the latter.

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NBA General

Lebron Jordan

Now that the world is back to spinning on it’s axis and Lebron James is slowly coming down off his high from getting to the Finals, we can clarify some things. First and foremost, Lebron James is STILL not Michael Jordan. He’s not even Kobe Bryant. Granted, what he did against Detroit and throughout the playoffs was unbelievable, and downright special, but it wasn’t Michael. It was, well, what we expected. You cannot bring this much hype to the table as the so-called “face of the NBA” and not win some playoffs series or get to the final series. And yes, Kevin Garnett, that means up until now your career and all of it’s accomplishments mean nothing. But really, to take that next step, Lebron needs to win the whole thing. Not next year. Not in three years. This year. The difference between Jordan or Kobe and James? Not that James has never won a title, more, the other two guys never lost one.

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