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Celtics defeat rival Pistons - The Boston Globe
A Celtics legend and a budding Celtics legend crossed paths in a hallway near the locker room late last night at TD Banknorth Garden. And while they were exchanging pleasantries, first-year Celtics forward Kevin Garnett received a compliment he surely will remember. "I've always said you're my favorite player to watch," Bill Russell told him. Russell's words came after Garnett scored a ...
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The Morning After The Night Before, LVI
Doug Smith's Toronto Raptors blog — ... existence of Acie Earl and a night against Houston when Zan Tabak missed the entire backboard with a wide open three-footer. Those two are right there with Bargs. - Saw highlights of that Boston-Detroit game last night and all I can say is the Eastern Final, if it’s those two teams, will be a war. Nice elbow by Ray Allen to Rip Hamilton I believe it was, lots of hard, hard screens and intensity unmatched in most regular season games. Take a read of the Boston and Detroit papers and see what they were saying . Sounds like KG was a bit ...

Now, That's the Ticket
Boston Dirt Dogs — ... For the First Time in a Long Time, The Celtics are Front and Center, and In It for the Long Haul Garnett Leads the Way at the Garden Celtics 90, Pistons 78: The Green Are the Beasts of the East "We know that the Eastern Conference is going to be won by [one of] three teams, and this is one of them. Statement? You can say that. But it was an important game for us. I can't even put anything really on it. But it was a huge game for us and we knew that from Day One. This is not an easy matchup." -- 3.5.08, KG ...

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