Great points about how KG and Perk stay intense without doing the scoring themselves. There is no other player of KG's stature who feeds emotionally off the plays of his team just as much as plays he made himself.

Fun fact from Game 5: Kobe had more misses than any of his teammates had shots.

Gotta love seeing the Celtics being rewarded for playing true team basketball. Their defense is still something to watch.

Question: If the Celtics end up winning the title, what happens to the Lakers' trophy from last year?

Do they have to give it to the Celtics? Do they have to give it back to the league? Or do they just hide it in some dark corner of Staples?

YWG wrote:
Shove it up Sasha Vujyebitch's butt and deport him back to Slovenia.

YWG wrote:
I don't believe MLB, NFL or the NBA use a traveling trophy like the NHL. They probably either go in a vault or in some executive area.

pants wrote:
Yeah, I was under that impression too. My vague point was that the luster of the Lakers' '09 title has to be seriously diminished considering Celtics would likely have three-peated with a healthy KG last year. Therefore, the Lakers should just give that trophy back to the league or hide it away or something.

I would argue that the Lakers were better last year. Ariza was better than Artest. Since we are pondering *what ifs* with KG, what if Bynum was healthy the past 3 years?

daddyfatsax wrote:
I agree it wouldn't have been a certainty the Celtics would have won last year with KG. I just like to discredit anything the Kobe-era Lakers accomplish because the self-proclaimed "Black Mamba" is a complete tool and Lakers fans are so damn annoying.

YWG wrote:
Word.

YWG wrote:
I don't that that is true. That title was diminished at the time because the Magic were not legitimately a championship team.

Having a year off going so deep in the playoffs was probably a good thing for the Celtics if they do end up winning the title.

Man I just hope the Celtics win tonight and finish this. Kobe in the Finals will be 4-3 and only winning one of them when he was the best player on the team. MJ went 6-0. haha Kobe sucks.

If the Celtics win, who gets MVP? Rondo? Pierce? I'd vote for Doc Rivers. He has so thoroughly outstrategized, outmotivated, and outeverythinged Phil Jackson. Does Phil retire if they lose this series?

Since when do the Celtics not play any defense, look and act like they are about to fall asleep, and make stupid passes every time down the court?

This is the least enthused I think I've ever seen KG.

How convenient that Perkins gets hurt in the 1st quarter. He is the least important of the starting 5, so you can't say the Celtics should have won if Perkins were playing.

I wonder how much Stern paid them to throw this game. I'm not watching the rest of this crap.

Wow that game was retarded, I couldn't even watch it all. WTF CELTICS!??!?!???

How can they come out so flat on a night where they could win a championship? Seriously, wtf? Their shit-tastic play boggled my mind. What a disappointment.

College Wolf wrote:
It was rigged so that Stern could get the Game 7 that he wants so badly.

roundhouse wrote:
I guess. It's as good a explanation as anything for the Celtics ineptitude.

The Lakers got back to playing how they play when they win. To an extent the Celtics were down so much so quickly it gave exhausted players a reason to feel exhausted.