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I'll make this point once again, Steve, because I believe it is relevant. The Celtics took the regular season very seriously throughout 82 games, as evidenced by their W-L record and margin of victory average. The team had (and has) weaknesses but great focus and energy helped them to overcome those on a nightly basis while other teams coasted from time to time. Come the playoffs and the ... [link]

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NBA Shocked Dialogue With Malice
Published 5/3/2008 by withmalice at With Malice...
Holy Cow, Batman! Anyone else simply agog… speechless at what’s going on with the Boston/Atlanta series. Atlanta just Won’t. Go. Away. And again, congratulations to Kobe, who is the 2008 MVP. The Boston Celtics lose to the Atlanta Hawks, 103-100… and the collective fandom of the NBA is ...

Game 6 Links
Published 5/3/2008 by Bret LaGree at Hoopinion
Micah Hart, Hawks BasketBlog: No, there is only one reason the Hawks won on Friday night - heart. No, make that Heart. It deserves to be capitalized for this team, because what they did tonight was will themselves to a Game 7 showdown in Boston on Sunday. In Game 3, the Hawks were the better team. In Game 4, it took a performance of the ages from Joe Johnson to get a win. The Celtics can look at those two games and make excuses. But not tonight. The Celtics had this game. There was no reason for them to lose this one, not after leading almost the entirety of the first three quarters and forcing the Hawks to play the kind of offensive ...

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