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Orlando will have 10 brick houses by the end of this game
Yes, it makes sense to hear a Mavs fan explaining what you have to do to win it all.This is basketball and if you think you can win it all playing like this you are sadly mistaken
Orlando will have 10 brick houses by the end of this game
Boston's D is just nasty.
His team doesn't disagree with him. It's all evident.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Stan Van Gundy has a request for the NBA: no more games on Christmas.
"I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game," the Orlando Magic coach said.
The Magic were playing Boston on Friday, one of five NBA games on Christmas.
Van Gundy said he understands the high-priced TV contracts generate money for the league and it would be difficult to stop such games. He said he wishes the league at the very least had fewer games on the holidays.
The Magic play games on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day this season.
"I think we get a little carried away with ourselves with sports thinking we're more important than everything else," Van Gundy said before the game. "But that's the way it is. There's nothing more important than the NBA on Christmas Day."
Van Gundy believes the day is best spent with family. He woke up early but managed to spend only about 15 minutes with his wife and four children. They went to church services the day before.
Van Gundy said he hadn't even had a chance to open his family's gifts before the 2:30 p.m. ET tipoff.
The only time he could recall watching a Christmas Day game was when his brother, Jeff, was coaching one of them. Van Gundy also said he doesn't watch NFL games on Thanksgiving.
"Christmas to me, obviously basketball is very important to me, but there are some days of the year where it's got to take a back seat to something," he said.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers wasn't quite as adamant, but he didn't disagree.
Rivers said it's tough for players to be away from family, but he realizes the league is not going to stop playing on the holidays. Rivers lives in the Orlando area and was able to wake up Christmas morning in his own bed.
He said he always watched Christmas Day games growing up because the league features the marquee teams.
"As a kid, you wanted to be on [Christmas]," Rivers said. "Then when you get to the league, you don't want to be on any more. You're like, 'No, I changed my mind.' But it's going to happen, so why try to fight it? I tend to look at it as a reward."
Van Gundy is doing what he can to give his team a break.
He gave the players consecutive days off for the first time this season for the upcoming weekend. The Magic's schedule -- with travel days and all -- hasn't allowed for a break, he said.
"The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much," Van Gundy said. "But if I had my way, we'd take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it."
Oh those poor NBA players. I've missed enough holidays on deployments, so I don't have much sympathy.
Also, my family would watch Christmas bball together. I guess from the looks of it, SVG had to block out a few extra hours for eating.
That foul on Perkins was so fabricated by the refs.
Yeesh Tony
fact: jameer nelson is the only magic player with a single assist. he has 3. orlando has three. boston has 7. wow.
rondo is such a flopper
It's not a flop when the foul is going to be called anyways. It's only flopping when it brings a foul that might not have occurred otherwise. That wouldve definitely been a foul, flop or not.
Edit: that's my definition of it anyways.
Get Santa off the fing screen!
I bet you heather cox is going to suck Santa slow after the game
Wow, you mean in that foul by Nelson? A flop?
Scared much?
Oh there was a foul alright, but Rondo was lying on the floor like he got shot or something.Wow, you mean in that foul by Nelson? A flop?
Scared much?
You call this game of the day?
exactly I never said it wasn't a foul u Bawwwston Boy,it was but he made it seem like he just got layed out by Ed Reed or something
You would know; you've got the most experience on these boards at blowing .
I'm not saying your Lakers didn't win a le... I'm saying you suck a lot of
Has Rondo made any FTs?
Hmm I don't have a sister.. You must have meat YOUR sister.
We're relevant now; no better time to be a Boston sports fan. We've got one or two years until our core ages too much, and I want everything we can get from it.
Man, it's too bad Rondo is a complete scrub when he's not playing along 3 HoFers.
Stan Fat Gundy is re ed. A trade off athletes always make is having to oftentimes play on the Holidays, that's always how it's been. Also, what the is wrong with watching basketball on Christmas? You're sitting around with your family all day and everything is closed, what else is there to do during the day?
Spelling smack? I expect better from you, especialy since I'm typing on a crappy iPhone
He and Mike Brown are the two most overrated coaches in basketball. They both get credit for how good their teams are statistically, and the only reason for that is cause they run their starters into the ground during the regular season so they can blow crappy teams out by more points.
I have a computer, moron. It's sadly still in shipping, on it's way over here to Hawaii.
Yeah I was out hiking for most of this game (I guess according to SVG I'm a loser for going out and getting exercise on Christmas since he obviously doesn't do that), but it hasn't been too fun to watch. But just looking at the box score, why the has every Orlando starter played 30 or more minutes in a December game?
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