Leave it to Fitzy to sum things up nicely. Thanks, brother. [...]
Leave it to Fitzy to sum things up nicely. Thanks, brother. [...]
ESPN's Marc Stein and SI's Chris Mannix have released their updated NBA power rankings. Guess which team sits atop both polls? The Celtics. The team that should have been #1 in every preseason poll. Here's what Mannix has to say about the Celtics: Rasheed Wallace is a pretty good fit in Beantown, isn't he? Wallace, [...]
Ian Thomsen of Sports Illustrated is picking the Celtics to win it all: I'm picking the Celtics because they should be the best defensive team in the league based on the return of Kevin Garnett, the arrival of Rasheed Wallace, the continuing improvement of Rajon Rondo — who could emerge as the top defensive point [...]
From Frank Deford's Sports Illustrated article back in 1988: Championships mean ever more to Bird—"His mission,' Auerbach calls them. "That's why I play," Bird says. "I'm just greedy on them things. Winning the championship—I've never felt that way any other time no matter how big some other game was. I remember the first time we [...]