It wasn’t even close.
Sure I called it, but the Boston Celtics exceeded any stretch of the imagination on how to throttle an opponent in a close out game. The swag was phenomenal. The celebration was legendary.
Maybe next year, maybe Andrew Bynum, maybe Kobe Bryant hangs around. But for right now, which is all anyone ever really possesses in life, the Boston Celtics are who we thought they were back in November.
NBA Champions.
And the man who is mostly responsible for all of it, the one who set the offense tone, the defensive tenacity and free wheeling nature of it all in Game 6 was Rajon Rondo.
This season may have been Kevin Garnett’s destiny, Paul Pierce’s redemption and Ray Allen’s certification, but the game and the night belong to Rajon Rondo. Rondo imposed his defense and rebounding on the Los Angeles Lakers throughout the first quarter, pacing what would become a insurmountable blowout in the latter three.
Only Bill Russell could’ve done it better.
The little guy that was criticized for his unwillingness to shoot, for his hesitancy to attack offensively, draped a defensive blanket over the purple and gold ignited the Boston Celtics and the Garden in a championship brush fire. Say what you will about Boston’s latest installment of the Big Three, but Game 6 is not such an easy fix without Rajon Rondo.
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