Guest Blogger Steve Kays: 13 Reasons Why I Hate the Boston Celtics
So I hate the Boston Celtics. Yes, you all know that I’m a Pistons fan, but even if I wasn’t I would still not like the Celtics. Why, you ask? Well, I’m glad you asked as I’ve made a list.
1. They’ve beaten the Pistons 8 out of 11 games the past season and this season combined (including the Eastern Conference Finals).
2. That the Pistons have been very good the last 7 years and have just one championship to show for it while the Celtics have been good for just 1 year and have the same number of championships.
3. They act like babies and thugs. For further proof just look at the technical foul leaders this season. Boston leads the league by a wide margin. They have 39 technical fouls, which is 14 more than the next team, Phoenix. Kendrick “I’m a bigger baby than Big Baby Davis” Perkins leads the NBA with 9 techs in 19 games, the same number he had all last season. Boston has 3 players in the top 11 in technical fouls. Ouch.
4. It seems that not a day goes by without some mention of a Celtic doing something ridiculously stupid. Literally off the top of my head I can think of several: KG taunting Jose Calderon, KG “slapping” Andrew Bogut, Paul Pierce flashing gang signs at the Atlanta Hawks during the playoffs.
5. The Celtics’ arrogance. I was recently watching a game in which the Celtics were up by 20+ points. Perkins received a pass down low in the paint and he dunked it home. So naturally he celebrated and started to jaw and stuff. Thankfully he got hit with a tech. Another example is when they beat Minnesota by one point at the buzzer and KG celebrated like he won the title as he was jersey-popping, etc. KG, you barely beat a truly awful team. Wowsers.
6. The media love they get. It sickens me. The Pistons and Spurs have been dominant for the better part of this decade and yet the media has covered the Celtics more in the past year and a half.
7. The fact that they acquired KG in a “trade” with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Seriously, the T-wolves had several better deals than the one Boston offered. Just the fact that the Minnesota’s GM Kevin McHale and Boston’s GM Danny Ainge used to be Celtics teammates is enough to make me vomit.
8. The fact that the message seems to be that you have to be bad (2007 Celtics) in order to be good later (2008 Celtics).
9. That the 2007 NBA Draft Lottery essentially gave the Celtics Ray Allen and KG. If Boston would have won the lottery, or even gotten the second pick, then whey would have taken another young player (Greg Oden or Kevin Durant). But they got the 5th pick which set off a series of events that led to the 2008 NBA title.
10. That KG wasn’t suspended in the playoffs for pushing a referee during a skirmish, even though he definitely should have been.
11. That Tony “I broke my leg dunking because I’m a moron” Allen and Eddie “I can’t do anything at all (especially dribble) but shoot” House trashtalk all the time even though they both suck. Seriously, all House does is shoot and he thinks he’s a god at it. Newsflash to House: You’re open so much because opponents are guarding KG, Pierce, and Ray Allen.
12. That Rajon Rando thinks he’s sweet even though he has no jumpshot and couldn’t hit a 3 pointer to save his life.
13. That Sam Cassell and P.J. Brown jumped on the Boston bandwagon late in the season (playing only some 17 regular season games) and played less than 14 minutes per game in the playoffs, and yet they both still got their rings. And that Cassell acts like he’s been a Celtics for life because of it.
So hopefully you can see now why I hate the Celtics. If Boston wins the championship this year I will probably swear off NBA basketball for life. Okay, not really, but you get my point.
-Steve Kays
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23 Responses
John December 3rd at 3:20 pm
I think that Reasons 6, 7, 11 and 13 are my favorites.
LOL this is great Steve!
John December 3rd at 3:23 pm
Hey Pistons fans: What’s your reason you hate the Celtics?
Darian December 3rd at 3:49 pm
because 1 i have always hated paul pierce… but most of all its because they were good last year… and won the championship and all that… but how about all the years before that … were consistent and they just out of the blue become a great team… and kevin garnett is dirty… and if sheed did half of the things he did wow he would be in nba prison.. lol
Darian December 3rd at 3:53 pm
my favorite out of Steve Kays list were 5,6,7 good article!
Ryan December 3rd at 4:45 pm
I agree with all of those!
Nice article Steve!
Steve December 3rd at 4:49 pm
Hey guys, thanks for all the feedback!
And thanks for posting this John.
John December 3rd at 8:06 pm
No problem Steve. I think if you stick with sports journalism you will go far.
richard December 4th at 2:14 pm
I hate the celtics and i completely agree with this, IS THERE EVER GONNA BE A NEW SHOW
Mike Watson December 4th at 4:31 pm
ESPECIALLY 10!!!!
But hey these dudes got swag and they show it. I wish we did like we used to. But if we did what they’re doing now we would be labeled as the bad guys and everyone would hate us. But since they have KG and all the media attention its ok they’re the good guys with attutide. All BS if you ask me!
Mike Watson December 4th at 4:32 pm
And oh yeah…
NEWWWWW SHOW! NEWWWWW SHOW! NEWWWWW SHOW!!!
John W. Davis December 4th at 7:04 pm
The Celtics have earned their Swag. They are no longer the big 3 but now the Big 4 especially with Rondo. Come on!
A Triple Double! 16 pts 13rbs 17asts.
Thats a baller.
Lil Bow Wow’s big brother is becoming dominant.
I think the Pistons can beat every team in the league other than the celtics right now.
We can only beat the Celtics with everyone playing Arron Afflalo defense!
Ryan December 4th at 7:14 pm
How in the world did Rondo get 13 rebounds?
Was the other team playing 5 guys who were 5 feet tall?
John December 4th at 7:25 pm
Ryan Rondo is a great rebounder for his size.
His last year at the Univ of Kentucky he led his whole team in rebounding.
He averaged 6.1 in 2005-2006 at Kentucky.
He just has a knack for it and he has extremely long arms.
He is a solid player.
Steve December 4th at 7:27 pm
I’m not surprised Rondo got a triple double. So maybe he is sweet. lol
But he’s always been a pretty good rebounder for a guy who’s only 6′1.” Think Jason Kidd triple doubles (10 pts, 10 boards, 10 assists).
The thing is that I doubt he really got 17 assists. The whole system of what an assist really counts as is all screwed up.
John December 4th at 7:53 pm
Steve, What should count as an assist?
Steve December 4th at 8:45 pm
John, an assist is supposed to be awarded if the recipient makes an immediate move to score after catching the pass and if the pass contributed significantly to scoring the goal.
There’s a great article at 20 Second Timeout that talks of how assists aren’t tracked well these days.
http://20secondtimeout.blogspot.com/2008/11/smooth-all-around-performance-by-paul.html
John December 4th at 9:11 pm
Point proven Steven.
I consider an assist a pass that directly leads to a basket as well. However I would add that the assists should lead to an easier basket than the scoring player could have created on his or her own.
Passing to Kobe with 2 secs left and he nails a smothered 3 pointer is not really an assist in my book.
Only open jumpers, layups and dunks should qualify.
Assists become alot more subjective then but that’s how I feel about it.
Sean December 5th at 4:09 am
Funny stuff
kevin December 5th at 7:06 pm
Steve, you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble and just included #1. #1 explains all the irrational rest of it.
i mean, good grief. You’re a Pistons fans and you have the colossal gall to complain about babies and thugs on ANOTHER team?
kevin December 5th at 7:08 pm
Oops. I maan John.
PistonsNation.com December 5th at 7:53 pm
Either you’re a PN reader or we think A LOT alike.
Steve December 6th at 2:04 am
I do read PN (good stuff by the way!), but I think the boiling points for me was when they dominated the Pistons twice, all the taunting KG has done this season, and then the Perkins technicals.
It just became too much and forced me to write an article and vent my frustrations.
By the way, did anyone else see Big Baby Davis crying in tonight’s game?
Pricesless!
Ryan December 6th at 3:24 am
Woops, this link is better than that one; I didn’t mean to post that last one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSay2aWTc0