What Happened Today? 6/17/08 Or: We Have New Champions But From the Same Old City

I will confess to having watched nearly none of tonight's deciding 131-92 Game 6 blowout to give the Boston Celtics their record 17th NBA title. I was addicted to a rather exciting Cubs game (and baseball always takes precedence over hoops to me), and by the time it was over, so was the NBA Finals game. The Lakers didn't even bother showing up to try and take the NBA crown. Boston laid the smack down, so much so that Kevin Garnett, who I swear put up the most unimpressive double-double average in a Finals ever, piled up a 26/14 in his winning moment.

The person I'm happiest for is Finals MVP Paul Pierce, who toiled on a terrible team for much of his career, and in an amazing twist of fate, found himself with two worthy sidekicks in one off-season. Maybe we were aiming the praise a little too heavily in KG's direction this year, maybe not. But Paul Pierce is a legitimate badass.

Either way, it's nice to see Boston win one. That city's had a really rough sports year.

Not a whole lot else happened today, except that Willie Randolph got canned. Probably not justified, but as I said the other day, it was probably time to make a change and these things just seem to happen a lot these days in sports. Of course, the Mets lost the debut of interim manager Jerry Manuel - the ex-White Sox manager.

More tomorrow. Congrats, Celtics.

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