Basically guys who will be gone this summer:
Sully, Zeller, Olynyk, Turner, Crowder, Young.
Goodbye!
I was at the game last night and was watching him. There's no way that guy wasn't playing hurt. He was moving very, very gingerly (for a basketball player). He got a nice ovation after fouling out and deserved it. Yeah, he played poorly, but he did it on one leg. No shame there.
Turner was awful. There's simply no other way to phrase it. But he performed for us all season. I'm not letting him go so quickly.
Biggest disappointment was Sully: Slow and overweight. Look, I've struggled with weight my entire adult life. We all know the way to lose weight, but it's easier said than done. Having said that, I'm not playing professional sports for millions of dollars per year (and in a contract year). Dude was out of it.
Other funny stuff that happened last night:
LeGarrette Blount and a few of the other Pats were sitting on the floor, about five rows in front of me. Fans kept trying to sneak past the guards to meet him. The guards were having none of it. I haven't seen a fan get this much attention since the game last year where they kept showing a guy who looks like Tupac on the Jumbotron. The Celtics were so bad that game that the crowd went wild whenever they showed him and started chanting, "Let's go Tupac!"
Unfortunate fan of the game: Right before the end of the first half, the cameras were scanning the crowd and showing everyone on the Jumbotron. They happened to stop on a group of fans, one of whom was a woman jumping up and down so wildly that her untucked shirt bounced all the way up to her neck. The whole crowd just went, "Ohhhh..." I don't think she even knew, since it was clearly unintentional. Poor woman.
During the second quarter, Kent Bazemore fell into the crowd. While walking back to the court, h intentionally went the long way so he could high-five a fan wearing a "Bazemore" shirt. One of the Celtics fans shouted, "Yeah, that was the only Bazemore shirt they ever sold."
The most popular shirt in the Garden last night was not a Celtics player shirt, but rather, a simple white T-shirt with the words "Goodell's a
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Mike