What a weekend for sports…

Published: June 16, 2008, 9:52 am

Tags: uncategorized, basketball, celtics, doc rivers, eddie house, james posey, kendrick perkins, kevin garnett, kobe bryant, lakers, mark jackson, nba finals, paul pierce, phil jackson, tim donaghy, us open

With two of the best games of the NBA Playoffs so far (obviously both in the Finals) and a great US Open, this was one of the best sports weekends of the year so far. It was just a great weekend to be a sports fan. Let’s start with the Finals. I turned on Game 4 a few minutes into the 1st quarter and was completely blown away that the Celtics were getting worked as badly as they were. I was losing interest in the game fairly quickly so I went with some friends to watch the rest of the game at a bar. I kept my eye on the game the rest of the first half and when the Lakers held off a run towards the end of the 2nd (aided by Doc yanking around his rotation for the last minute) I was convinced it was over. Then the 3rd quarter happened. As the 3rd quarter moved along and the Celtics slowly began to chip away, more and more people in the bar started to watch. I really couldn’t believe that the Celtics were making the kind of run they were. I was sure they

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