Posts Tagged ‘Kevin Garnett’

NBA Playoffs: Protecting Home Turf

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In what turned out to be a great game, the Boston Celtics held off the Detroit Pistons last night to the tune of 106-102 (who says they can’t score in the East?). Both teams overcame double-digit deficits — Boston in [...]

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Weekly Pwnage: Jason Maxiell Spikes Kevin Garnett

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

While we were away, the Boston/Detroit Eastern Conference Championship series became pretty damn competitive with both teams getting valuable road wins while showing an uncanny ability to follow-up a great performance with ones that are, well, not so great. Game 1, the Celtics looked like they were ready for the winner of the Lakers/Spurs [...]

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NBA Playoffs: Celtics Take Game 1

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Riding the inconsistently broad shoulders of Kevin Garnett — no disappearing act last night — the Celtics beat the Detroit Pistons, 88-79. In what looked like a harbinger of things to come, the two teams played a grind-it-out style focusing on defense and making the opponent work for open shots. Unfortunately for Detroit, [...]

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NBA Playoffs: LeBron’s Dunk

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

In a game that featured King James telling his mother to sit down and be quiet (with some profanity mixed in for good measure) and a James dunk for the ages, the Cleveland Cavaliers ended the evening tied with the Celtics at two games piece.

Unfortunately for Cleveland, now they have to travel back to Boston [...]

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Kobe Wins MVP, Discussion Continues

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Which is it? Of course, those that vote for the NBA’s MVP award made Kobe their winner and justifiably so. He had a another great season and his team performed much better than expected. Of course, a lot of that had to do with Gasol theft, but nevertheless, the best player on [...]

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NBA Playoffs: What Was That? An Exhibition?

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I’m not sure what that was last night, but I don’t think it was playoff-level basketball we were watching. I am, of course, talking about Game One of the Celtics/Cavaliers series that got off to a whimper instead of the expected bang. Oh, the game was close but it wasn’t because great basketball [...]

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