Monday, June 15, 2009

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Still 17-15. Still Better.

P.S. How much did it hurt watching Bill Russell give the Finals MVP Award to Kobe? Screw being the ambassador to the NBA or whatever Russell is. Never honor the Lakers in any way! I bet he was kicking himself and thinking how much of an asshole Kobe is...

2 comments:

  1. Wow. Just wow. Does it hurt to show a bit of class? Kobe last year gave the Celtics huge props saying they were better than the Lakers. This year? Paul Pierce tweets verbatim with his Kansas university spelling education, "Lakers vs Orlando. Looked like a german sherperd vs a poodle thats ok the rotweiler celtics will b back in 2010"

    Way to show respect and class.

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  2. Well, to tell you the truth, the Celtics WERE better than the Lakers. This year, the won (fair and square, mind you) against an Orlando team that was extremely lucky to be there. Check out Bill Simmons' article about it. Had the Magic been hitting their threes as they had against the Celtics, it may certainly have been a different series. Live by the three, die by the three--something Celtics fans learned the hard way with Antoine Walker.

    As for the "tweet" itself. It seems to me that Pierce is actually complimenting the Lakers. He's calling them, essentially, the better team over the soft and ultimately underprepared Magic. The Celtics are hungry after making it farther than most people thought without KG and Leon Powe or any real veteran presence off the bench. I'm not sure where the lack of respect and class exists there, unless you're talking about your shot at his intelligence. Remember, he was on freakin' Twitter! It's meant to be small status updates, etc. Your judgment of his lack of grammar actually reveals you have no real argument at all.

    In terms of my original post, I was referring to the two completely different players Bill Russell and Kobe were/are. Kobe is surrounded by individual, out-for-himself, selfish-player talk (from what I've seen, it appears to be mostly true). Russell was dedicated to the team effort despite his individual ego. Giving him the Finals MVP Award aptly named after Russell is slightly ironic, don't you think? (Rhetorical question. I'm not going to bother to respond back to you again.)

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