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All they do in Beantown: play game sevens.  Add a winner take all showdown between the Magic and Celtics at the new Garden on Sunday Night to the list
SCOTT JACOBS
The NBA: Where Amazing Happens.
Boston, MA: Where Game Sevens Happen.
With the Burins and now Celtics going to game sevens in their second round series’ respectively, Boston [...]

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If Boston’s missing piece is a disgruntled former superstar turned mannequin, than they’re not going to repeat
SCOTT JACOBS
The world’s worst secret is officially now out in the open.  Stephon Marbury is on the open market.  And I hate to cut the suspense, but he’s going to Boston.  But you already knew that.  Everyone [...]

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Scott and I are too lazy to post sometimes, so we started this thing where we talk on AIM about sports then transcribe the conversation. Issue one features a little too much talk about the NBA Finals then some insights by Scott into the crooked world of underwater basket weaving.
Scott: Hey Man.
Mitchell: I just [...]

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J ROSE
Devastated.
Humiliated.
Annihilated.
Overrated.
All of these terms can be used to describe the incredible fraud that is the 2007-2008 Los Angeles Lakers.
After all, this is a club that was supposedly singing “kumbaya” coming into the postseason and fooled all the pundits, like my clueless colleague Colin, into thinking it was an unstoppable, united force by breezing [...]

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Celtics run Los Angeles off the court, claim NBA record 17th championship in resounding dominance
SCOTT JACOBS
Boston, party like its 1986!
The Celtics, led by absolutely startling defense, beautiful teamwork and ball work, didn’t want a game seven.
Then they came out and proved it, mutilating the Lakers like they were a bunch of lost teenagers running [...]

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The Boston Celtics pull of the greatest NBA Finals comeback on the road in an absolute shocker and are now 1 win from an NBA Championship
SCOTT JACOBS
Paul Pierce was speechless for a minute as he tried to catch his breath.
The sports world was left speechless with him, as the Celtics completed a remarkable comeback, none [...]

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NBA sabotages their own Finals, Indians draft an ex-con, and Tony Kornheiser is on one boy’s enemies list.
MITCHELL BLATT
“This is what America wants,” Magic Johnson said about the Celtics-Lakers finals matchup. If not America, the NBA anyway. Presumptively, they want the high ratings that two huge markets would provide.
Note to the [...]

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Celtics make the best out of disappointingly long series with Hawks anniolating them in the winner take all game
SCOTT JACOBS 
It was a fun ride, and an unexpected wrinkle to the 2008 NBA Playoffs.  But the Boston Celtics had enough of Atlanta toying with history. They were tired of the growing number of skeptics who said [...]

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