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Around the Blogosphere: Celtics fan reactions


We started out thinking we’d post some reaction from around the blogosphere from Celtics fans (the team most screwed) and Trailblazers fans (the luckiest team). But it turns out that while Celtics fans are tearing up the interwebs with their anger and lament, Blazers fans are nowhere to be found.

After winning a lottery in which they only had a 1 in 20 chance, it’s like they don’t even know a team exists. There are more Celtics fans blogging about the Blazers getting Greg Oden than there are Blazers fans. And this, it seems to us, is exactly why the Blazers don’t even deserve to get Oden. (And we absolutely hate the Celtics — it just seems like the sports gods are fucking with them though.)

Well, without further ado, here are some angry C’s fans:

“The 5th overall pick in a 2 player draft… that’s what we get out of 82 games of tanking, inept coaching, mongoloidian general management, and Personal Injury…
Portland as a franchise was floundering. Every player they had was some sort of criminal. Dogfighting, weed smoking, assaults, OUI… you name it, the Blazers had someone who did it. We got Bassy Telfair and is gun collection from the Blazers. The team sucked, and the fans- normally the NBA’s most consistent sellout- were shunning the Blazers for Lumberjack Contests and Salmon Fishing Derbies. They got the #1 overall pick.” — High Above Courtside
(Right, it’s Portland’s fault that Danny Ainge traded for Bassy.)

“What does this mean for the Celtics? In my opinion, it means that the Celtics are absolutely the more desperate team in the league this summer. I think that if the Celtics can’t package this pick with Theo Ratliff’s contract and extra pieces for an All-Star caliber veteran, Paul Pierce will be gone by the trade deadline. That also, in my opinion, would be best for both the organization and Paul Pierce (if we can’t get ourselves a veteran All-Star this summer).” — Celticsnews.com

“The worst possible scenario played out in the lottery. The Celtics dropped to the #5 pick and the Grizzlies dropped to #4. Do you realize that there was approximately a 6% chance that the Memphis and Boston would pick 4 and 5? I think David Stern just sent an anti-tanking message to both teams. I would have felt better if the lottery were televised instead of being held behind closed doors.” — Loy’s Place

“I am usually a pretty optimistic Celtics fan, but right now I don’t know how to feel anymore. I can’t end this blog/rant saying all will be well and we should stop worrying. My prediction? An all-star veteran somehow becomes available and we trade the pick, Green, Ratliff, and Delonte West for him. We might even have to add a future pick. What will most likely really happen? No veteran becomes available; we draft Wright and wait at least three more years for him to develop. By then Pierce is all but gone and who knows how our other youngsters will have developed. Optimism? Sorry, wait a few more months before you get any of that from me.” — Celtics 24/7

“NOOOOOOOOOOO! It was all for nothing. The injuries. The tanking (fine, we can say it now). The agony. The misery. The futile dream that something might go right for the Celtics. You know what? I’m not jumping off the bridge yet. Maybe Tony Allen comes back. Maybe Gerald makes an improvement half as big as Al Jefferson’s third-year improvement. Maybe Rondo develops a shot; maybe Perkins adds something (anything) to his game. And we’re still in the Atlantic Division. But, dammit, I wish I’d be thinking about going deep into the playoffs, instead of my 12th straight year of hoping everything goes right and we just get there.

I hate sports.” — Bunkosquad

By Vin

Vin is a Philly boy who shouldn't be invited into your house because he'll judge you on your book and music collection. He owns Dawkins, Utley, Iverson, and Lindros jerseys, which is all you really need to know about him. He can be reached at [email protected].

One reply on “Around the Blogosphere: Celtics fan reactions”

Cry me the Charles! — You people are unbelievable! Boston fans are the biggest bunch of moaners in the country.  The NBA Draft Lottery is only the latest thing that you can find to complain about.  I am a Philly fan and haven’t known the feeling of a championship my entire life. Of course there is the resulting frustration and outward behaviors of that that have given us the reputation of the most obnoxious fans in the country.  I’ll say that’s fair.
But to hear how Boston fans complain about their sports team is completely absurd. The first time I had this realization was in the summer of ’04.  I was talking to a friend of mine who is a Boston native. I was expressing my frustration about not having ever seen a Philly champion, and he said he felt my pain and pointed to his Red Sox cap.  This actually hurt me. If you remember, the Patriots had just knocked off the Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX earlier that year to solidify themselves as a legit NFL dynasty. I thought about what my friend said later and actually kind of admired the loyalty that he had, along with your city, for their most beloved sports team, the Red Sox.  
Then, that fall, the Red Sox won the World Series in the most dramatic fashion the nation had ever witnessed, coming from 3 games down against the…. I think we all well know what happened.
Great, the Red Sox did it!  No more complaining right?  Well, after tanking the entire NBA season and coming up with the 2nd highest percentage of winning the lottery (which is only 20% folks) you guys decry the NBA and the Blazers and their fans!  You do this now, in the middle of a season where the Red Sox are owning their division and the entire MLB, and the Patriots are the odds on favorites heading into the season! We might be the worst fans in the NFL out in Philly, but you are certainly the whiniest.  
Meanwhile I have lived in Portland for the last two years, and there are plenty of people who love the Blazers, can talk about the good old days of Walton and the only championship the city has ever seen (which was in 77!) and not get upset over the results of last years draft or the debacle that their only professional sports team had become up until a week ago. I could talk about the passion they have for their Winter Hawks (the minor league hockey team) or about the football fans that will drive 3 hours to Seattle because they don’t have a team in town, who you will never hear talk badly about the Steelers who were given a Super Bowl from the officiating crew. To sum it up, they are the most deserving fans in the entire country, and they certainly deserve this.  But this is not about them.  This is about you, who I am now convinced, are the most self-absorbed, miserable fans in the country.  From this point forward, the more you complain the more I laugh.  From where I’m standing as a Philly fan, you have absolutely nothing to cry about. So shut up and deal with it! And for God’s sake, leave Portland alone (I would be happy to field any Philly comments though).

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