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A magical season. Great achievement guys. Well done. 17th Championship … incredible.

First title I will remember…man it feels good. What a team, what a game!

I’m 28 and this is by far the greatest moment of my life! Some would say that is a sad fact, but I don’t really care at the moment. I love you Celtics! ;D

It’s over! It’s over!! It’s over!!!

It appears the Celtics strategy for winning the NBA finals was straight out of Colin Powell’s war strategy in the first Gulf War. Here’s what Powell said at the time:

“Our strategy to go after this army is very, very simple. First we’re going to cut it off, and then we’re going to kill it,” Powell said, while also promising to “rip up the {Iraqi} air force in its entirety.”

This was a total annihilation of the LA Lakers. Phil “the Zen master” Jackosn had no answers. Kobe the league MVP hd no answers either. Alas they were dealing with a far more superior team, indivdually potent, yet ubuntu-ed to the hilt, moving in unison with laser focus on the goal… Utterly destroy the LA Lakers with blistering and overwhelming force by cutting them off and killing them dead (figuratively speaking, of course)!

What a victory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anything is possible !!! just like what kg said.

Love this blog man. Two peat!!!

Unbelievable. Last season feels like a 1000 years ago. These guys all could not have wanted it nor deserved it any more. What a team.

I could hug the whole world.

6 o clock in the morning here and I´m screaming from the top of my lungs. I am at tears.

Thanks to the Celtics, and thanks for the opportunity to share this great moment with all of you here at Celticsblog.

I love you all.

Congratulations you guys deserved it, see ya next year. Hopefully both teams will be healthy and we can start a new rivalry.

Cheers

Amazing to see how far we’ve come in just a year! I’ve enjoyed the past few years on this site, but this year has clearly been the best. Thanks for providing a place for some stuck far away to keep up with the team, Jeff.

Amazing… What a way to win banner 17!! WOOOHOOO

To all the long time hard luck C’s fans of the 90’s -2000’s CONGRATULATIONS

It is better than I ever could have imagined

Finally!!! 22 years waiting for this!!
6 am in Spain, 2 hours to go to work. It doesn’t matter.

It’s done. Good job guys. Thank you

Thanks, Jeff. Glad to enjoy the ride here.

They did it the Celtics way, as a team. Now let’s do it again :-)

 reggie35 said:
They did it the Celtics way, as a team. Now let’s do it again :-)

Very well said.

Don’t even get me started on the refs…haha……FANTASTIC Win with ALL of our players Contributing Big Time….!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This answers all questions and doubts that everyone had at the beginning of the year!!!! Yes they can all sacrifice, Yes Rajon can lead this team, Yes Perkins can be our starting big man, Yes our bench IS good enough. This goes out to all those who doubted!!! #17 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ray played great in the finals but I am so glad to see Paul get the MVP. He deserves it for all those bad years.

Can’t wait for next year!!! Have a great Summer!!!!!!

I think I need a drink.

I’m crying. I can’t believe it! Ray with all those threes, one after another, a new Finals record! Rondo, he’s so young but he’s so damn good, stripping Kobe again and again.

The Boston Celtics are NBA Champions; Banner #17 is going to get raised. I still can’t believe it! I wish this could last forever.

WHOA BANNER 17 ON JUNE 17th… What a bad omen… for the lakers.

GO CELTICS !! GO !!

This is incredible. Feels as good as the Sox in 2004.

17!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS, EVERY CELTICS FAN ON EARTH!!! ITS THE RETURN TO GLORY!! BACK WHERE WE BELONG!! I LOVE THE CELTICS, I LOVE THE CELTICS!!! NUMBA 17 IS HERE, AFTER 22 YEARS

I’m sooo happy. I’ve been with the Celts since I was an unhappy undergrad at Brandeis (i transfered). The only thing I liked was sitting in my room and watching the Celts and smoking cigs. I stayed with them through all the bad years. This is the greatest. Go Celtics! I’m so happy for Paul, KG, and Ray. Honestly, especially Paul – he’s been here forever. LOVE. CELTS. YES!

Yeeaaaahhhhhhh!!!

18 Steals…39 point win…No BS call by the refs for controversy…THIS is the way to win it….so, EVERYONE knows who the BEST team is…..No Questions…I live in LA——all my friends are Laker fans,They can’t say **** to me now….I am so proud of this team——-Thank you guys!!!

This makes watching Vin Baker pretending to be our franchise player totally worth it!

A great night. A great site.

Have loved every minute.

haven’t checked flights or talked to the boss yet, but I’m def flying home for the parade.

CELTICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY DID IT!

We are the CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!! I am in basketball HEAVEN!!! I love the CELTICS!!!!!

I live in CA (Orange County) and have been a suffering Celtic fan in the midst of Fakerland for many years! Not anymore!

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And, thanks to Jeff and all the CelticBlog staff for this great site! Love you all, too!!!!

WE DID IT !!! #17

No. 17 is so sweet. God bless Red.

22 long years… I really didn’t know if it would ever come again. after the deaths, pitino, etc.

It feels weird, but Red saw it through… many of us were here last year during the lottery and thought Red would deliver us the first pick. Instead he is up there watching NO. 17!

What a friggin turnaround… not just this year, but for the last 15 years. We “BEAT LA!”

Light it up Red…… were right behind you……

Congratulations guys on a well deserved championship and 17th banner. You guys were the better team and played with more heart and focus. Enjoy being on top.

Kurt
Forum Blue and Gold

Everyone contributed to this amazing season….enjoy it!

For all we went through in this blog…. all of us… congrats !!!!!! no hard feelings….

Thank you all and how i wish we could share it in real life in person. Love to you all.

TOP OF THE WORLD! in honor of kg…we won it and boy oy boy do you think we are big favs for next year? Oh boy

TOP OF THE WORLD

So happy and proud right now! BOSTON CELTICS 2008 NBA CHAMPION!!!

Re-sign Posey. His defense of Kobe was total.

Knew we needed a good game from Rondo and he was amazing. Never saw so many steals

What a year. Definitly got my money’s worth.

I have no words. I may not sleep tonight.

I moved from Mass. to Texas during the summer of ‘86 (just before the C’s beat the Rockets). Needless to say, it has been a long 22 years for us diehard fans! I wondered at times if I would ever see the 17th banner hung from the rafters. Congrats to the Celtics on Championship 17….and to all the fans who stuck with them throughout the years!

Thank you Celtics. This was a wonderful season. Wow, I’m still in shock… we killed the Lakers! That was great. Let’s do this again next year. WOW.

enjoy the moment celtic fans all over the world!!!!! cheers, salut, kanpai, mabuhay!!!! howecver u say it let us all come together to celebrate numba 17!!!!! thank u celticsblog for being the glue !!!!

As a coach myself, to have been there tonight with my two oldest boys, in our first row balcony seats – absolutely priceless and a lifetime memory. Enjoy, all!

im crying…

This feels unreal. After the debacle of Don Gaston and He Whose Name Must Never Be Spoken (the Louisville coach), I was convinced it could never happen again. It just seemed like my team had become poison. I would remain forever a fan, forever frustrated, forever let down.

Now this. Wow. I was shaking.

Thanks to Celticblog and all the loyal fans for sharing your love for this team with me. Thanks to you, even as I was stuck here in L.A., I felt like I was part of this, not just watching on TV. Thank you … and enjoy the feeling!

Wow..a massacre!

Amazing!! Couldn’t have scripted a better season. Being in Istanbul, I was too excited to sleep. I finally put the game on at 4am and I’ve been almost as hyped as KG. It’s going to be a rough afternoon at the office, but it was totally worth it.

Thanks Jeff and co. for making this time all the more special.

For the first time in my adult life, I was sitting in front of the TV with tears in my eyes. I have been waiting for this my whole adult life.

Anything is possible!

22 years waiting…a CHAMPIONSHIP worth waiting for!

Couldn’t have scripted it any better…perfect ending to a perfect season!

This one’s for Red and DJ.

Doc Rivers simply put emphasis on the most ignored basic principle of basketball, great offense wins games but great defense wins championships!

There was a time when I wasn’t sure when we were ever going to win one again. And even when I thought we did, I wondered if there ever would be another time when we could call that championship a classically Celtic team. The kind that carried itself with pride and class. The kind that stressed rebounding and defense, and an overall selflessness. The kind that commanded respect.
It’s one thing to win No. 17. It’s another thing entirely to win with this bunch, most particularly a re-tooled Paul Pierce who (especially in the playoffs) did just about everything I’ve been accusing him of NOT doing.
Thanks for proving me wrong, Danny. I’ll let you mortgage our future after all. Maybe those trades weren’t so bad after all.
It’s great to win, but it has meaning when you win with this bunch.

this team was great from day one-focused-selfless-spirited-and unified. a great tribute to the leadership potential of the human race. and we were witnesses and in our own way, scribes. whoopie.

The new Big Three got theres. Congratulations to the entire Celtics team and coaching staff on winning the series. Boston is a brotherhood. I think everyone felt and witnessed the special bond and comradeship this team had all season and through the finals. Amazing win and a fitting end to a storybook season for this team and franchise. I was 8 years old the last time we did it….and it never felt this good. Congratulations Boston, thanks for the memories I will cherish and never ever forget! Go C’s! “ONE MORE! LET’S GO! ONE MORE C’S” The road to 18 starts today!

And thank you Jeff and all other contributors to the celticsblog. This great site is permanently incorporated into my daily routine as a C’s fan!

This team made us PROUD ;D