Less than 12 months after being acquired, they along with Paul Pierce and the rest of the Boston Celtics were NBA Champions.
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The Boston Celtics are two victories from NBA history, and from extending the Knicks' postseason futility in a most improbable manner.
The New York Knicks had a three-game lead against the Boston Celtics in their first-round NBA playoff series and they have surrendered two games of it.
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That's probably why, in the NBA, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers teams of the '80s, led by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, respectively, rate higher than the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls clubs of the 1990s.
So we figured we'd try to break out of boxing and give our fresh perspective on another huge sports event: the 2012 NBA Finals featuring the Boston Celtics and the San Antonio Spurs.
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The fight did not start until late Saturday because promoter Bob Arum did not want it to compete with Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat.
He was voted this year's most valuable player in the NBA, despite the Lakers losing to the Boston Celtics in this year's championship finals.
Thompson, a star at Providence and a backup in the NBA to the great Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics before turning to coaching, had guided the Hoyas to a 71-70 victory over the Orange at the Kodak Classic in nearby Rochester, N.
On the local sports scene, even Larry Bird of the NBA champion Celtics took a backseat in 1984--Boston belonged to Doug Flutie.
This preseason, the NBA is hosting NBA Europe Live presented by BBVA, during which the Boston Celtics will play Fenerbahce Ulker in Istanbul, Turkey and EA7 Emporio Armani in Milan, Italy and the Dallas Mavericks will play Alba Berlin in Berlin, Germany and FC Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.
The streak ties the seventh longest in NBA history, and is the league's best since the Boston Celtics won 19 straight in November and December 2008.
Johnson and Bird were iconic figures throughout the 1980s, when they combined to win eight NBA titles (Johnson with the Los Angeles Lakers, Bird with the Boston Celtics) and resuscitated a league that had become more or less background noise by the end of the '70s.
The commercial will air tomorrow night on TNT when the NBA kicks off the season with a hugely anticipated match-up between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics.
Seven time zones away from the TD Garden, the Boston Celtics will hit the court tonight in Istanbul, Turkey for the first preseason game of the 2012-13 NBA season.
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