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From: charlie@nbires.UUCP (Charles Carrington)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: Celtics: 15 going on 16?
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 21:10:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 21:10:14 1986
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In article <1423@panda.UUCP> plw@panda.UUCP (Pete Williamson) writes:
>
>And PLEASE DON'T DISMISS THE SIXERS.  Boston has to beat them to advance.
>LA on the other hand is a shoe in again this year.
>-- 
>						Pete Williamson
>"By hook or by crook, we will !!" ... #2

ARRGH!  Have you forgotten about the Bucks?  Have you forgotten about the
entire Midwest Division?  Have you forgotten that there are any other
teams in the league besides the Holy Trinity?

Look, I don't deny that the Lakers and Celtics are odds-on favorites to
reach the finals, or that they are the best two teams in the league at this
point.  Regular readers of this newsgroup are reminded of this
daily, to the point of nausea.  But to suggest that either of them is
a "shoe in" (sic) is unjustified.  There are excellent teams in both
conferences that are capable of pulling off the upset.

Frankly, it seems to me that the Bucks, not the Sixers, will present the
stoutest challenge to the Celtics.  In the West, the Lakers will be pushed
hard by the Rockets and the Nuggets.  They will not yawn past either team.

Here's to rooting for ANYBODY besides the Celtics and Lakers to make
the finals.  Any Rockets fans out there?  Bucks fans?  Anybody?  Please
speak up.  We are drowning in green smugness here.

PS.  A great game at McNichols last night.  Very exciting.  Nuggets 102,
Celtics 100.  The Celtics are undeniably a very fine team.  They were tired
and injured and still took the Nuggets to the limit.  It was the second year
in a row that the Nuggets have beaten an injured Celtics team here.  Larry
Bird says he wants to try us out when they are healthy.  Well, it would
certainly be our pleasure to have them back.  Sometime in May...
-- 
Charles Carrington	charlie@nbires.UUCP	(303) 444-5710
NBI Inc,  Boulder CO