It's sports, for pete's sake. Not a WTO meeting, or a meeting of NATO, or an emergency meeting of the UN. Sports. Did I say that it is JUST SPORTS???????

I wouldn't be surprised if they lose to Orlando or maybe even sooner.

If it happened in baseball, the next pitch would be a fastball right between the eyes. No doubt about it. Unfortunately, there's no more Danny Fortsons, Karl Malones, Maurice Lucases, Xavier McDaniels, Charles Oakleys, Rick Mahorns, Anthony Masons, Alonzo Mournings, or even Jim Loscutoffs to set misbehaving folks straight.

It's easy to understand the source of the anger, a general collection of role players, plus a good player, plus a superduperstar that fits in well with those role players, shouldn't be showing up anybody, no matter who they're playing. Many of them would be riding the pine on a losing team just about anywhere else. Stay professional, stay humble. If they even know the meaning of the words. If Xavier McDaniels was still playing and saw that crap, he would eat Gibson for lunch. Literally, just like Hannibal.

And terje, Windhorst's homeresque excuse is retarded. They don't play the Celtics every game. A tip of the cap. Uhh … right. The Celtics stuff is from their marketing department, and they play a now-dead guy who went to high school and lived in the Boston area who got on American Bandstand. They put his old clips on the scoreboard with the game is in hand, like Red Auerbach lighting up his cigar. They've been playing the clips for years. The fans look forward to it, the players are cool about it. But the players don't act like complete idiots and break out into a dance routine they've practiced on their practice court beforehead. Personally, I think Windhorst may be sniffing one too many of Terry Pluto's scented devotional candles. Maybe that's a chapter in their upcoming latest fawning tome, "The Pope Franchise."