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Paul Gasol to the Lakers. Wow.

I wonder if they would do a Odom for Kidd trade now?

Good game last night, even if we lost. I always love it when the C's play Dtown.

A few thoughts:
1) We totally outplayed them in the first half.
2) They totally outplayed us in the second half.
3) We can officially put to bed all the can't shoot/can't play/hurts the team talk re: Rajon Rondo
4) All that talk officially moves over to Kendrick Perkins.
5) Paul should have gone to the hole instead of shooting a jumper with too many seconds on the clock. When I saw the time left, I immediately thought of the game in Boston from two years ago. (see item # 10)
6) Billups jumped into TA but absolutely earned and deserved that call.
7) Detroit will not shoot 45% from three next time we play.
8) We will get more than 5 points, 9 fouls, and 3 turnovers from our bench next time we play.
9) We will shoot better than 62% from the line next time we play.
10) I still fucking hate Rip Hamilton more than any human being on the planet. Yes, even more than this guy, which says a lot.
11) Jason Maxiell is pretty good. He's exactly what we want Perk to be/become.
12) We're still going to go farther than the Pistons in the playoffs. Book it.

I bought a new TV on Tuesday (37 inch!) specifically to watch this game in HD, but Comcast has to hook up a different box for the HD to work, so I have to wait until Friday to see my Celtics in glorious high definition.

Completely unrelated:
What's your Brazilian futbol name? Mine is awesome!

Perhaps. It's definitely up there.

In related news, the Pistons are going down tonight!

Whew, no Big Papi. Although I have to say I'm shocked that Johnny Damon's name isn't on there. Seriously.

That was my view at the Verizon Center last night as I was able to swing my first ever courtside photo assignment.

It was pretty overwhelming. Head over to DCist for the results.

I've become very familiar and comfortable shooting MLS games but this is a much different beast. The action is much faster and since the court is much smaller than the pitch, the lulls in action are few and far between. Thank god for TV timeouts. The ball almost hit me once, but thankfully I didn't have to duck out of the way of a player while he was jumping out of bounds or anything like that.

I had a hard time finding the right lens to use. I brought out my 70-200mm and my 17-50. One was too long and the other too short. Hopefully my 28-75 will be just right. Still, I got some shots I was proud of.

Even though the TWolves are 3-16, it was really cool seeing all the Celtics from last year's team. Minny has a decent squad, but the pieces don't mesh very well. Corey Brewer is a keeper though. He was battling Brendan Haywood for boards all night long. And when he'd corral one, he'd take off up the court and take it to the hole.

Unfortunately for him, he had to guard Caron Butler. I'm having trouble coming up with a long list of players that are playing better than Butler is this year. Seriously, if you're not paying attention to Tuff Juice, you're missing out.

Count me in.

but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast. And play fantasy football.

Yes, yours truly has willed his ragtag group of NFL cast-offs and no names (Jeff Garcia, Ryan Grant, Earnest Graham and Michael Boley to name a few) all the way to the top of the standings. Cleverly Named Team will not be stopped!

Yes, I know you couldn't care less, but I felt the need to make you aware of my extraordinary GM abilities. I don't have single player in the overall points Top 20.

Of course, I'm currently sitting in 10th place in my basketball pool (thanks Gilbert).

This, dear friends, is what is known in the basketball parlance as "laying the smack down."

Memo to Qrich: Stop talking that shit.

**UPDATE**

Another thing I can cross off my list of "to-do's": Be on the field when a major league sports team celebrates winning a championship. That's your truly captured in the reflection on the MLS Cup trophy. Houston ensured that New England will not have a stranglehold on winning every sports championship this year, beating the NE Revolution 2-1 yesterday. For The Revs, it was deja vu all over again, as they struck first and took the lead, but ultimately lost the game. Just like last year.

More photos soon.

Oh, and my high school reunion was so much fun that I missed my flight back on Sunday morning and missed the first half of the game. Oh well.