Celtics Get Burned. You Knew It Was Coming.

    The Denver Nuggets, renewed by the re-acquisition of Chauncey Billups, played toe-to-toe with the NBA Champs. The Celtics have been playing with fire for a while now. It was the 3rd team in a row to really challenge the Green Team. This time the challenger won 94-85. The Celtics can't seem to put a strong 48 or even 36 minutes of basketball together this season. They used to dominate for 24 to 36 minutes and that was the game. This is 2008. They are getting off to slow starts or giving leads away, always playing catch up, and looking unimpressive as they do so, only to claw back into the game with solid, determined play. It looked like they could turn it on anytime they wanted to...until the Hawks game. Now Denver hopefully sends a wake-up call to the Green Team. Denver went up by 15 points at the 8:37 mark of the third period. Just when the Celtics looked like they were out of the game, they clawed back to take the lead on an Eddie House three pointer in the final period ... (link)