Last time Kendrick Perkins met Kevin Garnett and the rest of the Celtics team on the court we were a serious contender. We had beaten the Lakers, the Heat and were having quite a successful season.
The problem then was who would be the starting center for us. We had Shaq, Jermaine, Semih and Perkins. We had been beaten by the Lakers in the previous Finals because of the lack of rebounding (and mainly because of the awful refereeing in Game 7) and the team had decided to fully address that flaw.
Last time Perk ran on the TD Garden it was to receive a huge standing ovation as we celebrated his comeback from a gruesome injury at the worst moment. We felt relief and confidence in the future because our starting center would be back. Shaq would back him up and we could use the corpse of Jermaine in certain matchups and Semih Erden was there learning for the future.
Fast forward to tomorrow. Kendrick is back in the Boston Garden. He still plays for a contender, but unfortunately it is ...
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