Minutes to go in one of the most decisive games of the current Celtic's team career and Kobe Bryant gets his first steal of the game on Paul Pierce... WAIT, WAIT, WAIT A MINUTE...KOBE gets his 1ST steal of the game on PIERCE, the PAUL PIERCE, in crunch time...can i get a witness (REWIND!!!) How dumb, blind, and stupid can an NBA ref get, standing right there gawking the match-up, how does the ref on either side not see or see Kobe noticeably hit Paul on the arm/ribs/side, clearly not making any contact with the ball?!?!?!?!? I'm not going to blame this one play on the game seeing that KG missed 2 big free throws and that the Celts lost a couple of big defensive rebounds giving the Lakers second chance points down the stretch, but DAMN REF open your eyes please. This was a hard game to watch as Pierce had to drive to the hole like a vigilante time after time before the refs would finally give him a call, watching KG get sandwiched and hacked in the post, and seeing LA get and-1 calls when someone brushed across there uniforms or just breeze across their arm hair. Big ups to the Celts on not whining about so called NBA OFFICIALS, but I'm sure Doc and the team no in the back of their head the Lakers didn't beat them, they beat themselves. Perkins presence is missed for containment of Gasol and Odom, The Lakers had another ignited 1st quarter, Rondo is not playing like Rondo. Cassell said it best, the closing game is the hardest game to finish...TO THE CELTICS; Strap your kicks, inhale the presence of electric energy of thousands of fans keeping it GREEN, and play 220% the whole way through!! LETS GET IT!!!!! NUMBER 17m HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLA!!!!!!!!!

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