Filed under: Celtics , Lakers , NBA Playoffs , Breaking News Boston wasted little time in flexing their muscle over the Lakers in Game 6, and turned the event into nothing more than a celebration for the Celtics and their fans. The home team...

Filed under: Celtics , Lakers , NBA Live Blogging , NBA Playoffs , Featured Stories Kobe and the Lakers are back in Boston, where the NBA season will come to its conclusion either tonight or on Thursday. The Lakers are obviously hoping for the...

The Boston Celtics took a 24-20 lead over the Los Angeles Lakers at the end of the first quarter Tuesday night in game six of the NBA Finals in the “ New Garden .” Celtics guard Ray Allen is out of the game as he went up and in to get...

Before I go any further I'd be remiss if I did not bring up the whole Jemele Hill thing. She wrote an article (this is the edited one) in which she compared rooting for the Celtics to something to do with Hitler. Odd. The guys at Red's Army were...

Having lived, roughly, the Celtics' and Lakers' travel schedule for the last couple of weeks, it is my firm suspicion that both teams will be a little tired tonight. Which means, to me, that fresh legs will be at a premium. If I were Doc Rivers, I...

If you talked to Tim Donaghy today, might he say that he expects the series to go seven? What do you make of this mysterious plane delay ? How much longer can we reasonably expect the Celtics to contain Kobe Bryant ? LeBron erupted for 45 in game...

1) The Celtics locker room is surprisingly small for a home domain. Granted, it's a castle compared to where the Lakers lodge (some things never change, even in a new building), but still, I was expecting something a lot bigger for The Big Three and...

There are a couple of related items on TrueHoop from two smart basketball minds.   The first is from David Thorpe 's Game Six preview/breakdown, specifically on Vlad Radmanovic's lousy defensive "starting position" against Paul Pierce...

SMYRNA - Are you kidding me, Game 6! Didn’t the Celtics finish the Lakers off already? This series should be over already. You should be doing something else tonight. We all should be doing something else. But thanks to the...

Thanks to reader Ranger John for letting us know about this clip of one Celtic fan taking on an army of Laker fans at the Staples Center the other night.

The Los Angeles Lakers won Game 5 of the NBA Finals Sunday night to cut the Boston Celtics’ lead to 3-2 and send the series back to Boston. Los Angeles didn’t play perfectly and they weren’t even all that impressive in the...

I want Perk to play .  I want Rondo to play well.  I want Ray’s son to be OK so he can focus on the game .  I want KG to shut Jason Whitlock the hell up .  I want all those things.  And I want them all tonight.  But if none of those

Because really, who among us loves taking two cross-country flights within 48 hours? Kind of a drag, to be honest. Thus, a mission to extend this working vacation even further. The Lakers took care of the business at hand on Sunday, pushing this baby...

Can something get annoying to hear/read, but at the same time be humorous? Well, this "blaming of the officials" that is coming out of Lakers' camp is doing just that. From The Sporting News: Los Angeles Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic let the Boston...

AT Los Angeles Lakers (2-3; 14-6) at Boston Celtics (3-2; 15-10) NBA Finals Game 6 Postseason Game #26 – Home Game #14 Tuesday, June 17 9:00 PM ET TV: ABC TD Banknorth Garden Game Thread (index.php?option=com_smf...

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11 years ago, in June of 1997, I got the worst news of my life.  My best friend was gone.  He had taken his own life.  Del and I were pretty much the same person.  We loved the same music (I remember drinking beers in the studio… while�

I really wanted the Celtics to close this series out in game 5. I know the fans in Boston are happy to be able to watch them win it on their court, but there are so many factors affecting this team now that may affect the series. Just because a...

As of an hour or so ago the Celtics’ plane was stuck on the ground in Los Angeles. Boston Celtics, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Finals, Paul Pierce

Jimmy Kimmel talked politics and hoops with Presidential candidate Barack Obama yesterday. If Obama is elected, he plans on replacing the White House’s bowling alley with a basketball court. Barack thinks “Kobe Bryant is the best player in...

Filed under: Celtics , Lakers , Kings , Hornets , NBA Media Watch NBA Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day. 1. Sports by Brooks : The New York media isn't so thrilled about recognizing another Boston championship. 2. Dime...

Bill Russell knew. Of course, Russell is a Celtic at heart.  The man led Boston to 11 NBA championships in 13 seasons.  But he’s also the greatest winner in the history of professionals sports.  Russell saw KG playing the “way he should...

Let me sum up. In the past 48 hours: -Tiger Woods wins the US Open on a broken leg on the 91st hole -The Celtics knock off the Lakers and make Kobe cry -My ancestral home of Italy knocks off France, gets a must-lose from Romania, and moves on -4,000...

... to the Celtics, who made plenty of Kings fans happy with that obliteration. ... to my friends at CelticsBlog and Green Bandwagon , who deserve some fun after that horrendous 2006-07. ... to my (few) Lakers fan friends ( here , here , here...

First things first — congratulations to the Celtics and their fans. Boston was the better team in this series, the team that played with more focus and a more veteran mentality. They deserved the title, and I’m happy for Jeff and other Celtics...

Crown 'em Why the Celtics won: Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo played aggressively all night. Throughout the series both KG and Rondo have either been passive at the same time or took turns being passive, especially on the offensive end. Tonight Rondo...

Here's a list, in no particular order, of thoughts and feelings. 1.  Loved to see it end this way.  Hate the Lakers.  Hate Kobe.  Boston is still my #2 team. 2.  Favorite play of the game:  With about 8...

The Boston Celtics left no doubt who this year's NBA Champion is, after an overwhelmingly dominate performance against the L.A. Lakers on Tuesday night. Final score 131-92. Up by as many as 43 points in the game, the Celtics were really never in any...

by Marcel Mutoni The Celtics and I had decidedly different experiences getting out of the city of Los Angeles yesterday. Not only did the rental car company knock a bunch of money off the weekly rate for me when I brought the car back to LAX in...

Via the International Herald Tribune: The Celtics weren’t at full strength for Game 5, missing center Kendrick Perkins with a shoulder injury. Whether he’ll play in Game 6 will be a game-time decision, but Boston expects to have Allen...

As if a cross-country flight isn’t bad enough, we’ve learned the Celtics flight out of L.A. was delayed some 6 hours today due to mechanical issues with the plane. So instead of them landing around 5pm EST, they won’t get back...

The Lakers, faced with a Sunday night elimination game on a home floor that they have defended well throughout the playoffs, pushed back against the Celtics in Game 5 of the NBA Finals with a hard fought slugfest of a 103-98 win, forcing a Game 6 in...

Okay, first let's get to the good stuff: the C's took care of business and protected the home court, resulting in a 2-0 lead in these NBA Finals ... and a large part of last night's Game Two victory can be attributed to the hustle and determination of...

Being a Lakers fan means cheering for a team with 14 Championships, appearances in 14 of the last 29 NBA Finals, 8 NBA Championships since 1980, and five Finals apperances since 2000. It's still real good to be a Lakers fan! Especially when you have...

Damn those pundits, why does anyone listen to them? The Lakers were supposed to be a lock, and a fourth title for Kobe (first without Shaq!) would vault him into the same sentence as Jordan. The inverse happened - outside of the first quarter in...

Celtics vs. Lakers Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe: "Embrace it. Ogle it. Relish it. But, above all, believe it. The Boston Celtics did not just win franchise championship No. 17 last night. They snatched it. They swallowed it. They demanded it. So...

Filed under: Celtics , Lakers , NBA Playoffs , NBA Videos , Boston , Los Angeles , The Word , FanHouse TV Elie Seckbach, the Embedded NBA Correspondent, brings his exclusive NBA reporting to FanHouse. Check back here regularly for more videos. In...

These are raw, totally unedited notes of Lakers at Celtics, NBA Finals Game 6, taken live at the game as the action happens. Kendrick Perkins, who was doubtful for tonight, is well enough to play, and is starting at center. Rajon Rondo, who seems to...

You folks cheering at home better do some screaming, because your Lakers need all the help they can get drowning out these Bostonians. They know how to yell at whatever this arena is called. AK Big cheers for Kendrick Perkins, who is starting.

Not necessarily in their play, but literally cold. While at whatever the hell Boston's arena is called (and you thought "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" doesn't roll off the ol' tongue), an observation immediately hit me upon entering the gym. This...

No, this clip isn't from Pelican Bay , it's the Staples Center. Differences are negligible, however.

Paul Pierce in Dime #5 Remember when the Spurs had a problem with their team plane getting out of New Orleans after eliminating the Hornets, and the one night they had to spend sleeping on the tarmac may or may not have affected their play during the...

As long as the Los Angeles Lakers survive through the 2008 NBA playoffs, Empty the Bench’s West Coast correspondent Christopher Thell will be submitting a local fan’s take on his beloved Lakers’ postseason trials, tribulations...

Filed under: Celtics , Lakers , NBA Fans , NBA Playoffs , NBA Videos Here's some pretty funny stuff ( via TMZ ) that appeared to occur before Game 4 of the Finals outside the Celtics' hotel. As the players boarded the team bus, a group of Laker fans...

The Basketball Jones — NBA Finals, Game 5 — Episode 328 (.mp3) On today’s show, Tas and I breakdown Game 5 of the Lakers-Celtics NBA Finals. We discuss, among other things, wacky inflatable arm flailing Pau Gasol, the Lakers’...

If you’re on the Celtics‘ side of things, there are probably a million things that drive you insane about the Lakers. Whether it’s all things Kobe, Jack Nicholson constantly giving your coach and players an earful on the sidelines,...

Josh Q. Public:  One love.  One blood.  One life.  You got to do what you should.  -U2 Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  I know.  I know I said the Celtics would wrap this thing up last night. I said the Lakers were demorali

It sure smelled like a collapse, right? The resilient Celtics rallied from down 19 early to take the lead, and then fell behind again by 14 in the second half, but clawed within 97-95 with less than a minute to play. One problem: Ray Allen, their...

These things are just hysterical.  Of course… I find them hysterical because we’re up 3-2 and I have every confidence in the world that ‘Celtics in 6′ will come true.  More “machine” videos can be found here..

Herald Lakers put 17 on hold Celtics can’t afford to go to brink FL's Take: I don't want this to go to 7 games. The Celtics must find a way to end it in 6. The injuries are a factor and they are just going to get worse, not better. If Pierce,..

The Celtics did what would normally have been enough to win that game last night.  But let’s give credit where credit is due: Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom didn’t let that happen. “Gasoft” smartly took it right to KG for most...

Herald Lakers put 17 on hold Celtics can’t afford to go to brink ’Garbage’ time for Kevin Garnett Coaching breakdown: Phil Jackson’s full of it Kobe Bryant: Lakers’ man of steal Inactives stick with Celtics Paul Pierce is on a.

The Lakers tried to come back from a 24-point deficit in Game Two - and almost succeeded - but the Celts were able to lock down in the closing moments and held onto their lead for the win . That's the difference between them and these Celtics, who...

There's a reason that the Lakers have made it up to this point, as they haven't lost a game at home since March 28th ... That includes a perfect 9-0 during the postseason, as the Not Ready for Kobe Bryant Players took care of business in their return...

The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who can't decide whether he likes the fact that ginormous leads are not safe when these teams play. When he's not silently wondering what's going to happen in Game 6, he can be found staring into space with...

From today's column: (http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/celtics/view.bg?articleid=1101131 srvc=rss) Tip your cap to the Lakers, I guess; they accepted the gift given to them by Kevin Garnett, who missed three of four last-minute free...

It’s never too early to start thinking about next season. According to BetExpress.com  (sorry BetUS.com I couldn’t find next seasons odds on your site), the extremely soft Los Angeles Lakers are 2-1 favorites to win the NBA...

No question last night's carnage will sting for a while. It should. In terms of product quality, what the Lakers trotted out Tuesday night in Boston was the basketball equivalent of expired olives and curdled milk. Inedible. Indigestible. Unfit for...

Boston is the better team. The thing that made this fact -- that a 66 win team is better than a 57 win team -- a surprising one was the way the Lakers looked coming into the Finals and the way Boston looked to start the playoffs. It turns out we...

Kobe Bryant (photo. Chris Sembrot) How does Kobe Bryant feel this morning? Following Tuesday's humiliating Game 6 loss, where he had to watch an opponent celebrate winning an NBA championship at his expense for the second time in his career, Kobe was...

The AP reports: Kobe Bryant knew all along the Celtics were going to force someone besides him to beat them, and there was nobody else in purple and gold up for the job. Bryant finished with 22 points, but shot only 7-of-22 from the field and was...

Filed under: Celtics , Lakers , NBA Fans , NBA Playoffs The Lakers have opened up the Staples Center in past seasons as a place for fans to get together to watch the team play their road Finals games on television. They usually get a few thousand...

The following is a statement from the Los Angeles Lakers: After meeting with law enforcement and city representatives, we have agreed to not open STAPLES Center for a public showing of any upcoming playoff games from Boston. Because of concerns for...

Grit. Heart. Determination. These are attributes we ascribe to champions. For a team to be consider a worthy titleholder, they must have had their resolve tested and resiliency pushed en route to their final achievement. Contenders become...

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On  Barstool  today, I’m making the case for Eddie House to start Game 6: This “comeback” thing is getting old. Aside from the obvious notion of playing better 1st quarter defense, Doc Rivers should shuffle up the starting...

LOS ANGELES (AP)— Pack up the championship trophy and book a flight back to Boston, the NBA finals aren’t over yet. The Los Angeles Lakers are headed East to try a historic comeback of their own. Kobe Bryant scored 25 points, including a...