Here is my best Bill Simmons, the columnist from ESPN, impression.
The Celtics are dominating. They've got a 30 plus point lead right now.
10:06 PM Kevin Garnett has had a very good game despite every time I've seen him play, he's missed a shot or a rebound. To this point, 21 points and 10 rebounds. However, I can't be any happier for this man. Very few are more deserving than him. He is truly doing what his passion is in life.
10:07 PM 84-54 with 2:57 left in the 3rd quarter. Celts with 13 steals in the game-the record is 17. Welp, now 14 with Rondo's theft right there. He's got 6 steals, the last from "the great" Kobe Bryant.
Rondo's favorite player as a kid was Isaiah Thomas.
10:09 PM 2:16 left in the 3rd and Kobe is still whining about getting a little contact on an aimless drive to the hoop. Whatever Kobe-you're a whiner-like MJ.
10:10 PM Havlicek steals the ball! Havlicek steals the ball! NBA Finals MVP in 1974.
10:11 PM Gasol cuts it to 25 with 1:04 to go in the 3rd quarter.
10:12 PM Haha, Kobe got blocked by 380 year old PJ Brown! Then he hits the jumper down court! Ouch Lakers. OUCH!
10:13 PM KG genuinely happy for the guys in the game right now congratulates them on the execution of 3 quarters against the Lakers.
10:16 PM Michelle Tafoya asks Doc Rivers what he tells his team. He responds with "just keep playing." Nothing more true. Unless you get outscored by 30 points in 12 minutes of game play you really should "play." Play like you were just learning how to play. Play like you played in high school or college. Play well, execute but enjoy your "play."
10:19 PM You know when Trevor Ariza gets in the ball game in the 4th quarter Phil Jackson knows something. 30 points is probably too much to come back from, even with Kobe.
10:23 PM 95-65 with 10:23 to go.
10:23 PM 10:04 to go and Ray Ray hits a 3! Sets a record with 19 threes in the finals. Tied with Derek Harper and "Thunder" Dan Majerle.
10:24 PM Where's Kobe? My thoughts, I think that's actually what the crowd is chanting.
10:25 PM Ray Allen out of the University of Connecticut hits another 3!
10:30 PM Sheesh, a KG dunk puts it to 36 points out. Lame. Anti-climactic.
10:33 PM Gosh, Ray Allen again from 3. His 7th of the game.
10:38 PM Pierce waves for the ball...gets it...hits a three. This is becoming a clinic. The Lakers are getting pounded and didn't even want to play this 4th quarter.
10:39 PM Na na na na na na na na hey hey hey, GOOD BYE!!!
10:39 PM With 4:01 to go in the game coach Doc Rivers takes out KG, Pierce and Allen. KG, Pierce and Doc Rivers embrace. That is what sports is all about.
10:41 PM Wow, the Timberwolves traded KG away and now they'll all watch him win this. I bet tomorrow on the air waves KG will get some credit but will still be maligned for the player he "wasn't" or the things he didn't "accomplish" in Minny. (Right, like he was supposed to win a championship with Sam Cassell and Latrell Sprewell-possibly the best players KG's ever played with? ha. Right Minny press, right.)
10:46 PM Ha, even Brian Scalabrine gets a ring! Good for him.
10:49 PM There's the excamation point! House oop to Tony Allen-129-89 is the score with 1:04 to go. It's now a....KG huge smile...131-89. a 42, now 39 point lead.
10:53 PM Family on the sidelines. When that happens with 30 ticks left in a game you know the game is over. There's the Boston Three Party as Scott Van Pelt would say.
10:54 PM Eddie House, a former 60 point scorer at Arizona State, dripples the basketball out.
10:55 PM THE BOSTON CELTICS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS!
10:56 PM KG jumping around like a kid! A passionate kid! A kid who has worked so very hard for so long! A kid who plays hard 100% of the time.
Wow...shouts Anything is possible! Must have over come some tough stuff to proclaim that! Amazing to see that passion. It's refreshing.
It's for so many people...'Sota as he put it, Chicago, his roots in HS, everywhere.
"Top of the world!"
He looks into the camera and says "I made it ma!"
KG is an NBA Champion. Hugs Bill Russell. Do you see that? A man with 11 championships with the Celtics gives the man who just won his first a fantastic hug.
Gotta close this thing out. I work early tomrorow morning. Ah well! It was worth it documenting this Boston Celtics NBA Championship!
All of the main sports websites...ESPN, CBS, Fox all have KG on their main page.
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