Bends Toward Justice

I don't know why I despise all these Euros, except that they are in Laker uniforms and playing with the great American Euro, Kobe Bryant -- I hate him, I hate him as a person, I hate him as a player, I hate that he's so good at the game, I hate the way he is the apotheosis of the superstar mentality that took the league back into a big money toilet after Bird and Magic pulled it out of the toilet it was in. Rant over. Here's video of a crying Laker who just got tooled in the biggest moment on the biggest stage of all.

Meg and I went down. What a great night it was! Very pleasant to be in Boston. Nice, traditional Boston dinner at Durgin Park. A couple beers at an Irish pub called Hennessey's while we watched the middle part of the Red Sox game. Then the atmosphere around and at the Garden was electric. Converse gave us some green shirts ("Weapresent Boston") outside. Reebok gave little signs saying, "You Got Rondo'd." Our seats were draped with white shirts ("Gotta Beat LA" in green) courtesy of Modell's. Then the game was a terrific see-saw battle. I thought the Celtics were outplaying the Lakers early in every phase except field goal percentage. Kevin Garnett should be able to torture any Laker who tries to defend him. Rondo the same. Whichever wing man Kobe doesn't cover should also be able to shoot essentially unmolested. Pierce going down was scary. Then they were getting tough without him, and his return was inspirational. It was gr...

Paul Pierce was disappointed with the Celtics fourth quarter in the fifth game. In the sixth game he personally made sure they didn't play as soft. Even one of the craziest bad calls in a playoffs rife with bad calls only made him more determined. Even the refs couldn't take that game away from him. Here's a picture of him celebrating with Celtic fans in Detroit's arena. Detroit fans were so fed up they left while the game was still in question, but a quarter to a third of all the fans were Celtic fans, and still there when this picture was taken.