Just thought I'd start an open thread about why you love the Celtics.

Also, consider this your public service announcement: If you haven't already gotten your loved ones something for today, drop everything and run out and get it now.

Or if you are single and looking, don't be afraid to ask out that certain "friend" that you've had your eye on with the casual line of "nobody wants to be alone on Valentine's Day" and then show up with a rose. Worked for me (wink).

For more on love, after the break we will revisit our annual tradition of linking to Delonte West's epic romantic journey.

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The discerning theme of the Celtics fan base this year has been "gloom and doom", and this has largely been deserved by the team's play. It's tough watching a team that was always previously mentioned at the top of the Eastern Conference to succumb to ominous characteristics such as age and sloth. It reminds us of our perpetual crawl to the eventual end of our own time on Earth, something that we don't want to end. Who's happy! No one? Okay, I'll try and lighten the mood.

The Celtics need something to liven the dreary season up. It has been grating so far, and the mood I sense from most of the other Celtics fans (specifically the ones on this site), is that no one likes to be constantly reminded that the "end is near". So here are some ways the Celtics, and the organization, can rip the lid off of this depressing season.

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Give us your best caption and you could win a dance with Gino himself!*

*No, not really. But that would be cool.

As the nights draw in, the air gets cool, the shopping malls start to get busier and flashing lights increasingly adorn the buildings which surround us, December is upon us.

However, the Celtics fanbase is rightfully up in arms because we are still waiting for the team's first win of the season. This is a disaster. By this time last year, the Celtics had already won 13 games, so they are way off last year's pace, which saw them get burned because of their failure to earn home court advantage beyond the first round of the playoffs.

The Celtics are extremely fortunate to be leading the Atlantic Division and 2nd in the Eastern Conference by virtue of them holding the "alphabetical order" tiebreaker, but if things continue like this, they're in real danger of falling further behind the Hawks and entering the festive season with ZERO wins.

The age-old issues have predictably resurfaced. Doc Rivers' steadfast refusal to give ANY minutes to his rookies is mind-boggling. Pierce, Allen and Garnett aren't getting any younger, but has he given them a night off or given extensive minutes to any bench players? Of course not. This is despite the fact that all three of them are currently on course to set career lows for completion percentage and points per game.

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By now, you are probably checking in on this site for 3 main reasons.

1. To check and see if the lockout somehow ended last night. (It didn't)
2. To discuss lockout issues and updates. (Sorry, I just don't have the stomach for that today and by now you know where to get more in depth coverage on the subject)
3. A diversion. (I'm happy to try to help)

So, to repeat the title, have you read any good books lately?  If so, please share with the class.

Note: There's also a 23 page topic on this in the forums.  But feel free to repeat yourself.

Note: I bumped this up a bit because I'm sad it got buried under lockout updates.

What do bored bloggers do with their time when there's no basketball to talk about?  We get creative.

The following is a compilation of altered Shakespeare quotes that express our feelings on the NBA and usually the lockout in particular.  Hope you enjoy.

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LJ Rotter from Mavs Moneyball

Now is the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer by this win of Dirk; 
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our league 
In the deep bosom of the lockout buried.

I am a Player. Hath not a Player eyes? Hath not a Player hands, feet, vertical leap, quickness, shoe deals, clothing lines; fed with the same food, flown in the same jet, subject to the same fines, booed by the same fans, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as an owner is? If you fine us, do we not pay? If you heckle us, do we not laugh? If you cheer us, do we not showboat? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

More one liners:

• What's in a Bulls Game?
• That which we call D-Rose by any other name would play as sweet.
• The player doth protest too much
• The fault, dear Fan, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings

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Best caption gets a free pass to all the cancelled preseason games.

I am Rondo

I am Rondo
Rondo I am

Do you like to shoot jumpers Rondo I am?

I do not like them, Rondo I am
I do not like shooting jumpers, I like to blow past my man

Would you like shooting them here or there?

I would not like shooting them here or there
I would not like shooting them anywhere
I do not like shooting jumpers, I like to blow past my man
I do not like shooting jumpers, Rondo I am

Would you like them in TD Garden, would you shoot them over James Harden?

I would not shoot them in TD Garden
I would not shoot them over James Harden
I do not like shooting jumpers, I like to blow past my man
I do not like shooting jumpers, Rondo I am

Would you shoot them in a box, would you shoot them with Rick Fox?

Not in a box
Not with Rick Fox
Not in TD Garden
Not over James Harden
I do not like shooting jumpers, I like to blow past my man
I do not like shooting jumpers, Rondo I am

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