Celtics hammer Lakers, 2008 NBA Champions; Pierce MVP

Should Ray Allen have received the NBA Finals MVP?

Posted 6/18/2008 on thehoopdoctors.com

June 18th, 2008 – Dr. Anklesnap I know, I know, I know, none of the “Beantown Trio” (Garnett no longer wants to be called The Big Three) really care who wins the Finals MVP award, as each of their ultimate goals was to win the NBA Championship. These guys put their individual statistical tracking aside to put all their energy into team chemistry and playing “the right way” as Larry ...

Boston Celtic's 2008 NBA Finals MVP

Posted 6/14/2008 on andboo Sports

After an epic fail by the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics are up 3-1 in the NBA Finals. With such a deficit, it is almost certain that the Celtics will win the series. The only question remaining is who on the Celtics team should get MVP honors. The candidates are the Boston Three Party, otherwise known as Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen. All three players have been vital ...

Links For Friday

Posted 6/20/2008 on Gilbertology

- If you’re looking for another reason to keep Gilbert Arenas around, Pradamaster of Bullets Forever would like to direct your attention to Finals MVP Paul Pierce: [...] it’s all I was thinking about as the clock ran out. I saw Paul Pierce, a star who played for so long on crummy teams, who suffered tons of criticism for hurting the rest of the team with his selfish play, who ...

Is Pierce HOF Bound?

Posted 6/20/2008 on CelticsBlog

The Painted Area asks the question: (http://thepaintedarea.blogspot.com/2008/06/make-room-for-no-34.html) So, there's absolutely no debate now that Pierce's number will be retired by the Celtics. The only question left is this: did Pierce elevate himself to Hall of Fame status? At age 30, the resume looks like this: - 1 NBA Championship - 1 Finals MVP - 3 All-NBA Third ...

NBA Finals Wrap Up

Posted 6/19/2008 on FanHouse

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded NBA Correspondent, brings his exclusive NBA reporting to FanHouse. Check back here regularly for more videos. In this video we look back at the NBA Finals and hear from Finals MVP Paul Pierce while NBA MVP Kobe Bryant reflects on how the NBA game is becoming more like soccer. Around 2:10 into the video hear what one former NBA Star has to say about the referee ...

Celtics Four-Point Play: Banner #17 Edition

Posted 6/19/2008 on Sports of Boston

I will devote the entire Four-Point Play to the NBA Finals against Lakers, which saw the Celtics win 4-2. I will analyze the play of MVP Paul Pierce, how the Celtics contained Kobe Bryant, why Phil Jackson kept starting Vladamir Radmanovic, and how the “numbers” played out in Game 6. 1. Paul Pierce was named MVP of the NBA Finals after getting 17 points and 10 assists in the ...

Your NBA World Champions: The Boston Celtics

Posted 6/18/2008 on Half Court Heave

It has been done by all the other sports blogs (probably better), but I would like to say congratulations to the Boston Celtics. After looking a little…ok more than a little…shaky in the first two rounds. They came through it and won the title. Paul Peirce is in fact the truth, and he willed himself to win the Finals MVP. The most telling thing that I noticed last ...

Pierce injures leg, unable to take out garbage

Posted 6/18/2008 on Serious Sports News Network

BOSTON, MA — While Boston fans were celebrating their 17 th NBA championship on Tuesday night, one of the key cogs from their latest championship squad was suffering déjà vu. Mere hours after the Celtics 131-92 series clinching victory over the Los Angeles Lakers , Finals MVP Paul Pierce re-injured the very same leg he hurt during the first game of the series. “Julie ...

Introducing your 2008 Finals MVP, Brian Scalabrine?

Posted 6/18/2008 on Boston Sports Buzz - Red Sox Patriots Celtics Bruins MLB NFL NBA NHL Baseball Football Basketball...

That's just Scals being Scals...

Boston takes NBA Title, Pierce MVP

Posted 6/18/2008 on NBA Obsessed - NBA Basketball News

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball. Boston Celtics rule the world or at least the NBA World. Paul Pierce is MVP and played fantastic. Kevin Garnett reminds us that anything is possible. Defense rules and the Lakers better get one. Redlasso gives us this video from after the final seconds. source RedLasso Kevin Garnett was so emotional ...

MVP

Posted 6/18/2008 on RedsArmy.com: The Voice Of Celtics Fans

Paul Pierce Finals MVP

Posted 6/18/2008 on Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts

Even David Stern called him The Truth. Now I've seen everything. And Pierce thanked the fans. Well done.

Finals Scouting Report: Paul Pierce

Posted 6/17/2008 on 20 Second Timeout

Depending on the outcome, Paul Pierce or Kobe Bryant will most likely win the 2008 Finals MVP. In my previous post I broke down Bryant's performance in the first five games of the Finals and compared his numbers to this series and the Western Conference Finals to the numbers that LeBron James posted against Boston in this year's playoffs and San Antonio in last year's Finals. The Celtics have ...

Paul Pierce: An MVP performance in a losing effort

Posted 6/16/2008 on The Arbitrarian

Last night, Paul Pierce made a strong case to be finals MVP–unfortunately for him, the Celtics could not close the game out. You may be interested to find that Pau, not Paul, had the best game in terms of Model-estimated value. However, once team performance is accounted for Pierce comes out ahead, credited with 37.8 Points Created, and 0.376 wins. Nevertheless, this was Gasol’s ...