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Game 6 Will Be Wednesday Night at 8pm on ESPN

After the Thunder finished up their series by routinely dismantling the Lakers last night to send them packing in five games, a time has been announced for the C’s-Sixers Game 6 on Wednesday night. It will tipoff shortly after 8pm on ESPN. Looking ahead in the postseason, if the C’s do win Game 6, and [...]

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1 day ago

Highlight: Rondo Leads The Break

I love this decision-making from Rajon Rondo. While leading the break, you can see him eyeballing Ray Allen, who runs the wing and spots up on the arc. The Sixers have a 1-2 disadvantage but are mostly concerned about Allen’s three balls, which allows Mickael Pietrus to make an unmolested baseline cut behind the defense. [...]

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2 days ago

Celtics-Sixers Game 5 Tips off at 7pm

A note to all you local C’s fans out there that may be attending the game tonight at TD Garden. The game will start just after 7pm and will be broadcast nationally on TNT. However, unlike most TNT regular season games during the season, the tip will not come 15-20 minutes after the scheduled start [...]

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10 days ago

(Video) Rajon Rondo Continues To Dominate In Postgame Interview

Rajon Rondo is a tremendous player, but he tends to have a little bit of an issue scoring the ball late in games. I won’t go as far as saying he is scared, but he does pass up shots and defer to teammates in crunch-time….well a lot. Last night though may have been his coming [...]

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10 days ago

Video: Full Kevin Garnett Reaction After Game 1

Garnett followed up his season-best effort against Atlanta in Game 6 with a new season-high in points and another sensational double-double, as well 60 percent shooting (12-of-20) from the field. Over his past two contests, Garnett is averaging 28.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, two steals and four blocks a game. After the game, KG was candid [...]

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10 days ago

The Enemies List: Philadelphia, Part II

Before every playoff series this season, we’re doing some rundowns on the opposing roster for each team. Now that the Hawks have been dispensed with, we’re onto the Sixers. Here’s Part II. Players are listed in alphabetical order. Andre Iguodala: There are five guys in the league who have a claim on the title of [...]

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Win Free Converse Shoes for Hating on the Lakers–Contest with Forum Blue & Gold

Picture 4Readers,

We need you to step up. Starting now. Converse has reached out to CelticsHub and Forum Blue & Gold, the Lakers-themed blog in the TrueHoop Network, and asked us to engage our readers in a contest with Laker fans.

The rules are simple: We want  you to share (in the comment section of this post) personal anecdotes about the Lakers-Celtics rivalry. There are no strict rules or word limits, though your editor-judges will appreciate your keeping the anecdotes as short as possible while still conveying the emotion/humor/hatred. (Note: That doesn’t mean one or two lines is going to do it. Feel free to approach 500 words or longer—get a bit literary and descriptive, if you’d like). Also, though some PG-13 language is expected, please try to stay away from the really inappropriate stuff.

The prize: Five winners will get a pair of free Converse basketball shoes, with a slick black-and-green look designed to invoke the greatest franchise in the history of the NBA. Check out a nice big photo of them at the Converse Web site. (Laker fan winners will get this much uglier version).

As for the anecdotes, they could be anything. Was the first time you saw your father cry the night Magic Johnson hit his buzzer-beating hook in the 1987 Finals? Were you at the Staples Center during the Greatest NBA Finals Comeback ever—Game 4 in 2008? Better yet, did you taunt weeping Laker fans on your way out of the stadium? Did you mimic the McHale-Rambis clothesline on a Laker fan during a pick-up game? Is your spouse a fan of the enemy?

It could be anything, as long as it invokes the true nature of the greatest rivalry in hoops.

The five best entries get the free kicks. Also: The Converse folks have floated the possibility of giving more free shoes to whichever site draws more entries. Forum Blue & Gold has been around a lot longer than us and has a really, really, really active commenting community. They regularly get 100-plus comments on posts, many of which are well thought out considering that the commenters are, you know, Lakers fans.

So we need you. Get out your best anecdotes and post them here. If this post gets too far down toward the bottom of our home page, we’ll move it back up or re-post a reminder.

Check here for what’s going on over at Forum B&G, where their readers are reveling in the Magic Johnson Baby Hook and the time Lamar Odom slapped Kevin Garnett’s backside.

Also: Lakers suck. That is all.

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