IT'S PAUL FOR 1
Published 6/6/2008 by By MARC BERMAN at NY Post: Sports
BOSTON - You want nostalgia out of this classic finals series, you got nostalgia, circa 1970. In a Willis-Reed-limping-out-of-the-tunnel moment, Celtics superstar Paul Pierce, moments after bound to a wheelchair in the locker-room area after being...
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