On Monday, Vancouver held a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup Final, Nathan Horton was knocked out of the series and the Bruins looked ready to be beaten. Since Horton's injury, Boston took complete control of the series and have outscored the Canucks 12-1 in five subsequent periods and have now tied the series at 2-2. Rich Peverley joined Milan Lucic and David Krejci on the top line in Horton's stead and scored twice in Wednesday's 4-0 rout. Krejci assisted on both Peverly goals. Michael Ryder and Brad Marchand also scored goals.
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President Obama visited Boston yesterday and left with a pile of campaign cash from two fundraisers. Ray Allen and Governor Deval Patrick opened for Obama at Boston Center for the Arts in the South End. Allen described Obama as "our coach" while Governor Patrick touted his performance as president, citing the economy and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Well, Boston. We wanted the Heat and we got the Heat. Miami was too hot for the Celtics to handle yesterday and the result was a 99-90 win in game one of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Dwyane Wade was the decisive player for Miami with a 38-point effort. James Jones added 25 points and five three-pointers.
Paul Pierce set the tone early for Game Three of the Celtics-Knicks series. Pierce scored seven points in a 9-0 Celtics opening surge and Boston never looked back in a 113-96 blowout that gives them a commanding 3-0 lead.
While everybody - well, Bostonist thought it - was thinking Paul Pierce would be getting the ball in order to take the potential winning shot last night, it was a vintage Ray Allen three-pointer with 12 seconds left that was the dagger through the Knicks' hearts that gave Boston an 87-85 victory in the opening playoff game on Sunday night. The Knicks were in control leading 51-39 at the half. Boston's playoff experience won out with a 28-21 fourth quarter advantage, including a 5-0 spurt to seal the win.
Glen Davis and Ray Allen scored 20 points each as the Celtics overcame a 51-40 halftime deficit to steal an a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011031903">89-85 win over the New Orleans Hornets last night. The third quarter was crucial as the Celtics used a 23-6 surge to take a 67-64 lead they never gave back.
Allowing 60 points in the first half is usually a good way to lose a game and last night was no different as the Clippers cruised to a 60-43 lead at the half and escaped with a 108-103 win at the TD Garden. Even 61 points in the second half wasn't enough as the Celtics fell to 27-6 at the Garden. Gary Tanguay said on CSN that every home loss has been to a western conference team.
Okay, sportsfans, we have a baseball season now that the Red Sox beat the Yankees, 5-3. But, some players you've never heard of made contributions to the win. Jose Iglesias reached base three times and scored once, Oscar Tejada was 2-2 with two RBI, including the game-winning hit, and Juan Carlos Linares was 2-2 with an RBI. A pitcher we know, Clay Buchholz, continued to throw well against the Yankees. He threw three scoreless innings and allowed one hit.
History was made at the TD Garden last night as Ray Allen broke the NBA record for three-point field goals made in a career with two first quarter treys for a total of 2,561. He added a third three-pointer for 2,562 in his career. Allen's good fortune didn't matter as the Lakers came from behind to win 92-86.
We know Boston College and Boston University will usually play a hockey game in February. They did it again last night at the Beanpot and it was a memorable battle, won by BC 3-2 on an overtime blast from Tommy Cross. Next week, top-ranked BC is the unfamiliar position of playing Northeastern in the championship game after the Huskies blanked Harvard, 4-0. BC reserved a spot in the Beanpot title game for the 31st time. Northeastern was in the Beanpot championship game in 2009 and hasn't won it since 1988.
After Kendrick Perkins put the Celtics (37-12) ahead 97-91 with 2:42 left in Friday's game against the Dallas Mavericks, the green didn't score again, and lost 101-97. Jason Kidd scored a three-pointer with 2.5 seconds left putting the Dallas Mavericks ahead to stay. Nowitzki (29 points) added two free throws with 2.2 seconds left.
Tim Thomas held off a late rally from the Carolina Hurricanes to give the Bruins a 3-2 win last night. Ray Allen's 22 points, four three-pointers, and a surprising halftime rant lifted the Celtics to a 95-90 win over Sacramento on Tuesday.
Ray Allen's success as an NBA player hinges on his ability to launch three-pointers. His wife, Shannon Allen, just launched her new TV show, "Pre-Game Meal," with a party at Winston Flowers in Chestnut Hill. An auction at the party raised $15,000 for the Allen's Ray of Hope Foundation. Flo Allen Hopson, chefs Ming Tsai and Carla and Christine Pallotta, Rajon Rondo and his fiancee, Ashley Bachelor, Kendrick and Vanity Perkins, Julie Pierce, Brandi Garnett, and Steve Pagliuca attended. Other guests included Wes Welker, Satch Sanders, Linda Henry, and Liz Brunner. The show premieres February 12 at 11 a.m. on NECN. [Herald]
With one crucial cog - Kevin Garnett - out of the line-up and, arguably, the NBA's top team, the Spurs, in town, every other leading member of the green crew stepped their game up in a 105-103 victory.
Patriots fans everywhere appear to be getting exactly what they want for Christmas: A healthy Tom Brady. Yes! Brady had the flu earlier this week and actually missed an entire practice on Wednesday and was "limited" on Thursday. But, Friday saw Brady fully involved in practice. "Doing good, ready for this game. Ready for Santa Claus and ready to play some football," he said. He said he missed no preparation for Buffalo as he focused more on off-field preparations - film, treatment - to stay sharp.
After the game, Celtics radio announcer Sean Grande said it best. Paraphrasing a little, he said good teams win "sexy" matchups like the one in New York on Wednesday. But great teams win the next night, too, on the second night of a back-to-back when everyone's tired and 40% of your starting lineup is out.
Dick and Rick Hoyt are racing in the Feaster Five Thanksgiving Day Road Race in Andover. The Salvation Army in Central Square delivered Thanksgiving meals to 329 households and 1,079 people, including 475 children under 5.
You can say what you want about the Miami Heat - and we will, and we know you will - but they don't get discouraged easily. "We're the best 5-4 team in the league. How about that?" asked Dwyane Wade, who was freed after the game from being tied up, gagged, and thrown in the back of a van during his 5-4 juggernaut's 112-107 loss at the hands of the efficient Celtics.
The Boston Celtics and the Chicago Bulls have been in overtime before. Despite leading by as much as 16 points in the third quarter, the Celtics (5-1) needed another overtime to fend off the Bulls, 110-105. Boston has won four straight.
When the Celtics' "Big Three" came together for the first time (we were calling them Ghidorah then, as you may recall), they opened their 2007-08 championship season by blasting the Wizards by 20. Now, you can look at all the things that haven't gone right for Miami this offseason - they didn't have much of a preseason together; they didn't spend two weeks bonding in Rome; they're coached by Erik Spoelstra, who wears the haunted look of a man one losing streak away from being found in the trunk of a Town Car registered to Pat Riley five miles into the Everglades - but the fact is our guys started 1-0. And the vaunted Miami supergroup is 0-1. What does it mean? Probably nothing.
No game tonight Sox fans. That leaves us with...
- Red Sox trade rumors just over two weeks prior to the July 31 MLB Trade deadline. According to the Globe's Buzz, the Sox are circling trade waters like a shark in Chatham with outfielders and relievers as the seals. David DeJesus, Jayson Werth, Kosuke Fukudome, and former Sox outfielder David Murphy are allegedly in the rumor mix. [Boston Globe]
- Terrell Owens is expressing a desire to join the Patriots. No, Bill. Just no. [USA Today]
- Manny Delcarmen, Clay Buchholz, and Josh Beckett are all headed for rehab starts.[ESPNBoston.com]
- Ray Allen officially inked his new deal with the Celtics and showed he is the anti-LeBron. [Boston Herald]
While the nation awaits "The Decision" with bated breath, and starts to wonder if we should just start hating Miami right away, the Celtics are keeping themselves busy and making some old guys very rich. First, they re-signed Ray Allen for another two years, which we're happy with. Then they announced that they'll pay almost $6 million for Jermaine O'Neal to eat up some minutes in the center spot until Perk is healthy. When we last saw Jermaine O'Neal, Miami-Dade County officials were drawing a chalk outline around him after he shot 9-for-44 in the Heat's first-round loss to the C's. When we last saw a Jermaine O'Neal that we thought was NBA star material, it was about three years ago. But, hey, Rasheed turned in a couple good games after spending nine months playing himself into shape, and it's not our money anyway.
How did that happen?
How did the Celtics play almost perfect defense and lose? How did they make 2010 Kobe Bryant look like rookie chucker Kobe Bryant for most of the game and lose? How did the strategy of "make Ron Artest beat us" backfire so soundly? How is it that the Lakers are celebrating this morning and we're feeling like this?
For five games in this series, the team on the losing end could look back and say," if we had just done this {better defense/better shooting/Tonya Harding'ed the refs}, we easily could have won this game." Not last night, brother.
We've seen some surreal sights in our time as Boston sportswatchers. And honestly, we thought "Gagne getting a ring" would never be topped. But there we were last night, watching as Doc Rivers sent two and a half future Hall of Famers to the scorer's table, then called them back to the bench, in crunch time in the Finals, because he didn't want to take Glen Davis, Nate Robinson and Tony Allen off the floor.
Your Boston Celtics have to win tonight's fourth game of the 2010 NBA Finals. A 3-1 deficit if they lose? Well, the Los Angeles Lakers aren't the Boston Bruins. Like we said, win the damn game.
Let's take what we can out of this. Since we knew that the refereeing crew was about as bad as it will ever get (they reviewed three plays in the fourth quarter and learned all of them were wrong, now extrapolate that to the 650 calls they make or don't make over the course of the game and we're going to stop now because we're making the exact same face as Kevin Garnett seen here and we're just going to start this paragraph all over again.)
We know it wasn't a two-man game. We know that Pierce's defense and Baby's hustle and Rasheed(!)'s good positioning were all part of last night's win. But if you want to say that Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo won that game double-handedly for the Celtics, you can go ahead and do so.