Last night in what was supposed to be a basketball game, there was a massacre at the Garden. After putting effort in for the first quarter, the Lakers rolled over and played dead for the final three and got spanked by the the Celtics 131-92.
Boston now has three reigning champions (if you include the BC hockey team). And it realistically could have been five the Pats and Revolution had been able to pull it off. This is the city that between 1986 and 2001 couldn't get any.
This is the culture that I grew up in. Boston teams usually played well but just never were able to win the title. There were lean years for all the teams. The Pats were terrible before Parcells, the Celts have been awful for years, the Bruins had a few nice years but have been mostly a bad team since the early 90's, BC had some pitiful years in football, hockey, & basketball since 1986, and the Sox...well 1986 has painful memories all its own reserved for them.
But that has changed. Now Boston is winning titles. The Celtics are the latest. A perfect example of how to work the free agency/draft/trade system to build a team that can win. Make no bones about it. The players won this one despite their coach. The passion of Garnett and the leadership of the Boston Three Party pulled that team together to create a great season.
And now they are champions, in a place that is becoming a city of champions. Usually these things go in cycles and at some point each team will be down again but not now. I think I'm going to sit back and enjoy this for as long as it lasts.
Go Celtics!
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