YanksHater213

I'm not too sure. I think the Celtics are a better team than they were two years ago, but as are the Lakers. The Celtics have been very tough to get a read on all year, and I still really have no idea of what the outcome of this series will be in any shape or form. I just know it's going to be an unbelievable series.

Completely agree, but I don't think anyone should be getting overly excited for anything at this point. I feel great for the guy and would LOVE to see him on the field week one, but it's really just not that realistic.

He may avoid the PUP list but I am thinking that he's not gonna see anywhere near a uniform until AT LEAST week four, if not longer. Take it from a guy who has had an ACL reconstruction already and needs another one in August - it's worse than it looks. There's so much rehab and strength training that needs to go into it. I got my surgery Dec 07, came back to playing tennis @ the D1 level in college the next fall, and I popped my ACL graft with relative ease. Even if there is a shot in hell of him playing in week one, I think he needs to be kept out until at least week four, if not longer.

In the long run, Seguin may very well be the guy that benefits the franchise the most, but you look at the short term, the next 5 years, adding a guy with the goal scoring potential of Taylor Hall playing with Savard and maybe Lucic for instance, you have a playmaker, 2 bangers, and a goal scorer, I think you're looking at one of the most dynamic lines you can put together right there. Regardless, I like Hall more, you like Seguin more, it's really apples and oranges, either way we're in a great position without having to make a difficult decision.

Everyone's different, so you never know, but I think for a guy of his talent it's well worth the risk. Also I've been hearing rumblings of a #2 + Wheeler for #1 swap to guarantee the Bruins Hall.

He apparently has an ego, but he's one of the top 5 most talented players in the draft. I think that since we're getting Hall/Seguin at 2, it puts us in the position to take a risk at 15 and try to add another guy with bonafide NHL skills and size who could potentially contribute right away, regardless of his character. His ego and character can be changed, and I honestly don't think you let a guy with this much talent drop past you, especially when you already picked up one of the two best players in the draft.

I want Hall more than Seguin, as any non-delusional Bruin fan should. Seguin is a great player too, and no one should complain about him as opposed to Hall. The thing that would really excite me is if we take a chance on Kirill Kabanov at 15.

Again, like I said, crazy how things work out.

Yeah, he was born in Boston, Flordia inside a cab outside of Fenway. Weird how that works out, the owner of this site born in Boston, Florida right outside of Fenway.

It's easy to sit there and say that without acknowledging how absolutely putrid the Eastern Conference was that year. Sure, it's an accomplishment to get there, but you're making it sound like they beat this years Celtics, Magic, and Heat on their way there. The East was awful, and Cleveland getting there means next to nothing.

Peja Stojakovic with athletic ability is pretty much a poor man's Ray Allen. Nothing close to Kevin Durant.

Yep. Kobe's never taken over a game. Ever. He didn't even take the game over when he scored 81 vs. the Raptors.

Whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Durant is Bosh with fancier moves? What? I don't even know where to start with this but I'm pretty much taking all of your opinions on basketball with a grain of salt from now on, but I'll do it anyways. Kevin Durant is not a power forward. He plays shooting guard and small forward, and sometimes plays the PF when OKC goes very small. Kevin Durant is a scorer, Chris Bosh is not. Chris Bosh gets his points off of dunks and his mid-range jumper. Not only can Durant post up, but he can shoot from the outside, score on the inside, AND drive to the basket. Kevin Durant is so much more versatile and better in pretty much every area offensively than Bosh that I'm literally absolutely baffled that you could even begin to compare the two in the same sentence. You put Durant on Toronto, that's a playoff team, no questions asked. Just because Durant is around the same height as Bosh doesn't mean its alright to call them comparable as players.

Durant plays better defense than you are leading on here. I never knocked LeBron's defense - his athleticism leads him to be a pretty damn good defender, but he's nothing to brag about when he has to man up, and he's sometimes led to complacency, especially when he's upset with his team (see games 5 and 6). Kobe would never do that. I used to hate Kobe's guts, but after seeing the way the LeBron has acted, I completely turned here, Kobe would never not try. Obviously you can't just have role players, but LeBron is their go to guy so they absolutely can get away with a bunch of role players. You mention Kobe having Gasol, who his only real threat, Bynum, Odom, and Artest are all absolutely role players on that team. His team isn't loaded like you're saying, they're front loaded. Their bench is just alright, Cleveland's bench blows them out of the water. Kobe has played on some pretty putrid teams himself, the mid-2000's Lakers were pretty awful post Shaq. The team that See Red posted up is a terrific example of just how much Kobe was able to carry that team. They have guys that turned out to be good (Bynum, Butler) but were nowhere near the players they are now. You also have to understand, I'm a Celtics fan. I LOATHE Kobe Bryant. I think he's a no good rotten rapist. For me to say that he's a better player than LeBron takes a lot for me to say. I also think you're completely dismissing Durant for no reason at all. He's always been on AWFUL teams, and has had to be the centerpiece of a team that really has never had anything. This year he carried them and put together a great run in trying to beat that Lakers. They turn around that game 5 which they lost by 3 points, you might be looking at a OKC vs. Suns WCF to be completely honest. They did that with literally nothing off the bench. It was Durant, Green, Westbrook, Harden, and everyone else. That in and of itself is a great accomplishment for Durant, to put his team on his back like that and take them to a game six vs. the Lakers.

When you're as good as LeBron, and command the amount of touches a guy like he does, you don't need to place other super prolific players. I was actually surprised with how well Cleveland built this team with tough, hard nosed, and scrappy role players. Jamison is hardly past his prime, his numbers in Washington were pretty on par with his career average, and saw a nice little dip with a boost in efficiency once he got to Cleveland. Yeah, Shaq is past his prime, but he's got enough size and gas left in the tank to be an effective role player below the hoop, which is all they ask him to do. Mo Williams is a very good scorer, then you add in Varejao, Ilgauskas, Hickson, West, Gibson, Parker, and Moon, all in the general upper echelon of role players and you're going to sit there and tell me his supporting cast isn't good? It's probably one of the best in the league considering bench depth, not just starting lineups. You must not watch the guy if you don't think he's a baby. He gets away with more than any other player than any player that I've ever seen, and when he gets touched, he feels the need to exaggerate to the nth degree. It's a shame and one of the reasons why basketball is going down the tubes. I figured a lot of people would be ignorant to my Durant opinion so let me explain a bit. First off, a guy averaging 25+ ppg in three seasons before he turns 22 is ridiculous, I don't even need to explain that. But to bring them from perennial cellar dweller since Allen and Lewis left to a playoff spot and finishing 18 games over .500 shows a lot more value and heart than a guy like LeBron shows. Look at their roster, past Westbrook, Green, and Harden, they've got literally nothing. Ibaka, Collison, Maynor (who I think will turn out to be good though), Krstic, Sefolosha, DJ White, Ollie, and Etan Thomas. That's literally a who's who of (excluding Maynor) players taken off the scrap heap. Durant led them to a 50-32 regular season, and gave the Lakers a legitimate run in the first round. Durant is a SPECIAL player, but not many people realize it because OKC has been an afterthough.

I used to say LeBron through and through, but I'm putting him below Kobe these days. LeBron just doesn't seem to have what it takes to get over the hump. He's a whining cry baby. He gets "hurt" every time he gets touched. He needs to make excuses instead of give credit. When things don't go his way he gets mopey and it clearly has a large effect on his team. He had his best supporting cast in years, arguably the best team in the NBA, and it was pretty much his no shows that lost them that series. Kobe would never let that happen. The supporting cast argument really only works when you have s***** supporting casts, and not only did he have a great one this year with more than enough above average role players to win, but he had far and away his best one to date. Mo Williams, Antawn Jamison, Shaq, Varejao, Ilgauskas, Gibson, West, Parker, Moon, Hickson, etc. Kobe's got I'd say around 1-2 years more max playing at his highest level, then Kevin Durant takes over, especially if we see LeBron go to New York. As he's been getting older, he's been passing more, being an overall better teammate, more importantly, improving his defense, and overall becoming a more wiser basketball player (kind of like the transformation we saw Pierce undergo, from immature diva to team guy). Right now for me: 1. Kobe 2. Durant 3. Lebron 3a. Wade

I wish suns was a Magic fan because he would have found a way to complain about the officiating, which was probably the best officiated game I've seen this season. They let some rough stuff go down low, they stayed away from the ticky tacky calls, but most importantly, they were consistent.

This below: Also, it's one game. Let's not get our dicks hard over one game we nearly blew, ladies.

Makes 3 of us, amigos...

Awful game, I'm upset I was there but at least I got the tickets for free. Was able to upgrade seats down to the front row and was literally sitting 2 people away from Bill Belichick. Shook his hand and told him it was an honor, by far the best thing that happened tonight.

We need to take the momentum we gained in a fairly dominant third period last night, throw all hands on deck, and come out and dominate game 7. Please don't be "that team" that f***s up this badly.

This clown is a f***ing scrub.

Hate to say it, but I agree. The Celtics would need an other worldly effort from the Big 3, which I honestly don't see them as having right now. Orlando is too deep off the bench, and the only chance one of these teams would have is if the streaky Orlando team shows up that loves to jack up and miss threes.

You never give up, do you?