Why The Celtics Draft Plunge Is Good For The Sports Guy

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By now we all know the results of the NBA Draft Lottery, with Portland and Seattle beating the odds, and Memphis and Boston falling to 4th and 5th, respectively. While the Grizzlies fans must be disappointed (assuming there are in fact Memphis Grizzlies fans...) it's the Celtics fans who will obviously be drinking heavier the next few days. Resident Boston shouting-head Bob Ryan tried to sum ... [link]

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Bill Simmons is going to blow his brains out
Published 5/23/2007 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... Lion in Oil: Taking it back to the Sports Guy, he can’t be happily married to his Boston teams. If they were always winning, he wouldn’t have anything to write about, considering how limited his topics already are. But it’s the frustration, the losing, and the angst that gets him going. And that is what ultimately makes him successful. If all Boston teams went undefeated, it would be a yawner. He’d be boring. With his Hollywood experiences Simmons knows this all too well, and as painful as it must have been as a fan to see Oden and Durant slip away, he must have been smiling on the inside, for now he has a column topic for the morning.

NBA Draft Lottery: Well, We Suppose This Ruins Pitino's Master Plan
Published 5/23/2007 at Deadspin
... . (It's a sad day in Grizzlies land too, but nobody cares about the Grizzlies.) All the hopes and dreams of Bill Simmons -- who should have plenty to write about over the next five years -- and those Golden Tee-playing Boston fans went up in a poof of lottery smoke. It's almost as if it wasn't worth, you know, purposely losing so many games.

Today’s Links 5/28
Published 5/28/2007 by FLCeltsFan at Celtics247.com
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Celtics Links - 5/28/07
Published 5/28/2007 by Jim at Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts
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