Turning the Gold Icon into Green: Shaq is Now and Forever our Big Shamrock

If I ask you what were you doing in the evening of February 19th, 2002 you will probably take some time to remember. After all, it was almost 9 years ago. Let me refresh your memory. To me, that game brings me back flashes of what how much it has always meant to me to beat the Lakers at their own home court during the years. During the last part of the 90's and also the beginning of the new century it was tougher for me to get some coverage of the Celtics games. I remember I had to go to some cyber café and check the highlights in the Internet and even download some special games and watch them right there. I bought all the magazines, I had all the recaps and of course I had a regular season schedule poster always sticked on the door of my wardrobe. 2 dates were always circled in green. There were 2 games of the season that to me mattered the more, and I would do anything to watch them with passion. And for two decades there was only once in the season that the Boston Celtics p...