Comments on: A Rivalry That Spans Generations

By: Kristen Gray (aka. Robo)

Kristen Gray (aka. Robo) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:56:27 +0000

Nice Job Scotty T. And I gotta say, I got chills when you quoted Chick too. Tonight’s the night…

By: Suldog

Suldog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:05:37 +0000

I just stopped over from Jeff’s Celtics Blog. Excellently written piece. Thank you.

All true Boston fans have respect for the Lakers, same as we expect you’ve got respect for us. Good luck (just not as much good luck as we get )

By: DCollins

DCollins — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:19:05 +0000

it’s already nervous-time at the Forum……

By: Brian Tung

Brian Tung — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:45:18 +0000

Come on, Warren, make your post!

By: TC

TC — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:59:46 +0000

Great post Gatinho. I really think work is an afterthought today (as opposed to every other day, ahem). It’s more of an excruciatingly slow countdown to tip-off. Really, as a kid who got into basketball as a 10 year-old in ’85 I had never hated anything more than those Celtic teams. I didn’t learn the more cellular, almost unconscious dislike for the baseball Giants until perhaps a bit later. But hating Larry, Ainge, those fans….man, that was a lesson in sports which has stayed with me till this day. However, this is another Celtics team. It’s another era. Those guys are too likable and the game allowed for the level of animosity which could be sustained at a higher level back in the ’80s. If they’d let these guys play a bit more, perhaps they’d be easier to hate. Anyway……of course I realized that I actually respected the hell out of them…and time only deepens the respect. Those were two very well-matched teams with a higher proportion of Hall of Famers within two teams than in any other two teams certainly since. That and they were well-prepared and obviously lived to play each other. I remember the build-up even before the regular season games at the Gah-den. I guess it was ’87, or perhaps ’86 the regular season game, one just knew it was a preview of the Finals. Anyway, it’s great for the Celts to match up against the Lakers, but it’s not, at least until these guys have played three times in the Final, a serious rivalry…and unless we get in a time machine, it’s not comparable to great rivalry of the ’80s.

By: magiclover

magiclover — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:51:33 +0000

FOUR WINS FROM THE TITLE!!!!

By: Renato Afonso

Renato Afonso — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:43:35 +0000

Yep, and you are lucky… Today’s game will be played at 2:15AM, in my country, and I’m watching… I might be fired for sleeping while my screen had FB&G, ESPN and Yahoo open at the same time. But my priorities are straight as well…

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:34:55 +0000

It was the USC band not the UCLA band.

By: lakerfan101

lakerfan101 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:23:28 +0000

hertagnism, you are not alone by any means…

By: hertagnism

hertagnism — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:19:42 +0000

I’m about to take a really tough management final with all these forecasting equations and job allocation formulas and I’m here spending time on the forum just waiting for the game to start.

I think I’ve got my priorities straight.