Can we just skip to the Eastern Conference Finals already. I want these Cleveland-Boston games to finally mean something, and I want to see LeBron play actual defense on Kyrie and send him home in an embarrassing fashion.
I'm ok with that, I just want to see LeBron trying when he's on Kyrie. I don't know - to me at least - it's seemed he's held back on a couple of occasions when he's found himself on Kyrie. Elimination game, final minutes left, I want LeBron doing LeBron things and locking him up. I just seem to dislike Kyrie the longer this season goes on.
Cavs have a 90% chance of winning but it won’t be because of lebrons defense locking kyrie up. I just highly doubt kyrie will be able to lead a bunch of 22 year olds to a finals in their first year together.
They should have just done the tribute the first time he came. I know he sat out because of recovery from injury and was on second of back to back. Thus Thomas asked to postpone the tribute. But he should have just let them do it regardless of whether he was playing or not.
IT asked them to postpone it because all of his family wouldn't be there. He's showing some class here although PP put him in a very tough place that basically forced him to concede.
this whole thing turned into a public bashing of isiah thomas lmao. "KG was like, 'Isaiah who? Hell no, you're damn right you're not sharing your night with him.'" "What has [Thomas] done?" Rondo said before Tuesday's game, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. "Danny tried to sell me on it, but I told him, 'He had a shot, Danny, and he punked you on it. He pretty much dictated everything.' They let it happen because they felt sorry how (the trade to Cleveland) went down. It's guilt. That's what it is."
Wtf how did Thomas "punk" Ainge? It was the other way around he played through injury just to prolong their run and ended up destroying his market value.
Pierce, Garnett, Rondo, Allen - assholes - all of them. **** that franchise. I wish them the absolute worst. Paul Pierce: Celtics' guilt over trading Isaiah Thomas is why they tried to honor both on same night LOS ANGELES -- Paul Pierce dreamed of playing his entire career with the Boston Celtics. When that didn't transpire, and the team dealt him, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry to the Brooklyn Nets in 2013 for a treasure trove of draft picks, he began dreaming instead of the day the Celtics would raise his No. 34 to the rafters. That day is Feb. 11 -- and he will not be sharing it with anyone else. Plans to show a brief video tribute to Isaiah Thomas, who was traded to Cleveland last August, have been scrapped after Pierce told Celtics head of basketball operations Danny Ainge he preferred to have that day to himself. "Danny and I talked about it for 40 minutes," Pierce explained to ESPN early Tuesday afternoon. "He told me, 'This is what we have planned,' and at the end of the conversation, he said, 'If you don't want us to do Isaiah, we won't.' So I told him, 'I really don't.' So that was it. "That's how we left it." Shortly after ESPN reached out to Ainge to confirm this development, Thomas tweeted that he preferred Boston not run a video tribute for him after all. Earlier in the day, before Thomas' tweet, Pierce explained why he objected to plans to honor Thomas on Feb. 11. "(Thomas) had a shot to be honored," Pierce said. "You came to Boston. Whether you are playing or not, you should have had your tribute then. I just don't see how, if someone is having a jersey retirement, they're going to be running other tributes for other players. "Danny tried to sell me on it, but I told him, 'He had a shot, Danny, and he punked you on it. He pretty much dictated everything.' They let it happen because they felt sorry how (the trade to Cleveland) went down. It's guilt. That's what it is." Ainge said Tuesday night that Thomas intended all along to bow out of the video tribute once he learned of Pierce's reservations. He also said when he and Thomas' agent, Aaron Goodwin, first discussed an alternate date for a Thomas tribute, which was originally scheduled for Jan. 3, neither of them realized the next time the Cavaliers came to town would be the night that Pierce was being honored. Thomas asked not to be recognized on Jan. 3 because he was not going to be playing in the game and he wanted his family present for the tribute. Earlier in the day, before Thomas' tweet, Pierce explained why he objected to plans to honor Thomas on Feb. 11. "(Thomas) had a shot to be honored," Pierce said. "You came to Boston. Whether you are playing or not, you should have had your tribute then. I just don't see how, if someone is having a jersey retirement, they're going to be running other tributes for other players. "Danny tried to sell me on it, but I told him, 'He had a shot, Danny, and he punked you on it. He pretty much dictated everything.' They let it happen because they felt sorry how (the trade to Cleveland) went down. It's guilt. That's what it is." Ainge said Tuesday night that Thomas intended all along to bow out of the video tribute once he learned of Pierce's reservations. He also said when he and Thomas' agent, Aaron Goodwin, first discussed an alternate date for a Thomas tribute, which was originally scheduled for Jan. 3, neither of them realized the next time the Cavaliers came to town would be the night that Pierce was being honored. Thomas asked not to be recognized on Jan. 3 because he was not going to be playing in the game and he wanted his family present for the tribute. Pierce conceded that he gave his position some additional thought after his objections to a joint tribute made headlines. He says he consulted his agent, his wife, his mother and Garnett. "Everyone understood where I was coming from," Pierce said. "KG was like, 'Isaiah who? Hell no, you're damn right you're not sharing your night with him.'" That is no longer a concern. "We owe Paul a lot," Ainge said. "I feel indebted to him. The whole organization feels that way. We will have a great night for him. Argument over."
The Celtics big 3 is insufferable. They won one championship and somehow the whole team thinks they're some know-it-all who's figured out everything there is about basketball. Doc, KG, Pierce, Rondo, even the Perkins, big baby Davis reserves.
Pierce and all this supporters look pathetic. Someone should explain the concept of attention spans to them. That video would be a couple minutes long, and then everyone in the building would forget about it and start paying attention to the next thing.
