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Obviously no white guys on the Celtics.
Celtics want to visit Obama
By LANCE HORNBY, SUN MEDIA
Last Updated: 10th November 2008, 3:27am
BOSTON -- Barack Obama has given the Celtics more incentive to win a second consecutive NBA le.
A visit to the White House is a champions' perq, and having met George Bush, the team wants to be the first team in line for the popular new chief, who is huge on hoops.
"Our main priority is to win the championship, but it's a little something we say: 'Let's go see Obama', " Rajon Rondo told the Boston media last week. "We want to be the first Celtics team to win back-to-back (in 40 years) and it would also be an honour to go back to the White House."
So far, so good, with the Celtics leading the Eastern Conference at 6-1. Last season, Boston roared out of the gate with a 13-2 start.
"If we didn't do what we did in November last year, Game 7 (of the Eastern semifinal) would have been in Cleveland and we would have been playing the Lakers in L.A. (to start the final)," coach Doc Rivers said.
The Raptors are looking forward to returning to TD Bank-north Garden, site of one of their biggest thrills of the 2007-08 regular season. A Jose Calderon shot in the final seconds provided a 114-112 win, their only victory against the Celtics in four tries.
"We'll have to match their intensity and beat it," said Chris Bosh, who also reported on the Celtics-Lakers series for The Tonight Show.
Until the Raptors came on strong in the fourth quarter yesterday in Charlotte, it seemed the half-empty building and the pending excitement of going to Boston might have made the Raptors guilty of looking ahead to the game tonight.
"In the NBA, you look at whatever game is on your plate that day," countered guard Will Solomon. "But now, I'm excited to be going to Boston where the championship was won last year."
Obviously no white guys on the Celtics.
Yeah, I'm sure none of the other black players in the NBA want to win.
Sorry Rajon, join the Lakers juggernaut if you ever want to see the Hoops President.
2 letters will spoil this Celtic dream......
LA
Lousiana? So the Hornets are winning it all?
why don't they visit Osama instead lay the smackdown on him.
Can't wait until paul pierce decides to run for presidency and call himself the greatest president ever.
If he defeats Kobe along the way to becoming president, I really don't care what he calls himself. Some of us know the truth.
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