The Cover of the Article was Tim Duncan in a Celtics Jersey. The article has what really happend in these events and then the person types up what he thinks should of happend if things would of gone the way things were expected by some. But I might warn you some of this stuff is a little fantasy like but it's the persons opinion. I'm just going put what he thought should of happend because well. We all know what really happend in those years lol.1996-97Revisiting HistoryFor the second straight Yeah, the worst team gets the pick, San Anotonio, desperate to pair Duncan with injured center David Robinson, lands at No. 2. We're not trading the pick, Pitino says. Celtics fans can plan on Tim Duncans number going to the rafters alongside the championship banners he's going to put up there. Pittino drafts Duncan No. 1 and-believing he can take a risk on a high school player because Duncan is such a sure thing- grabs Tracy McGrady over Mercer at No. 6. Pitino.: I think our fans are really going to like this kid McGrady. He can be the nest Penny Hardaway. 1997-98With Duncan, Ncgrady and secpmd uear semsatopm Antonie Walker in the front court, The Celtics are the envy of every team in the league. They finish 44-38 and are swept by Michael Jordan's Bulls in the first round of the playoffs. Duncan is the rookie of the year, Walker leads the team in scoring, and McGrady solidifies himself as a star in the making. Sensing that a point guard will elebate his team to the championship level, Pitino slirts with taking Bruce Drew in the first round but eventually trades Dana Barros and the draft pick for Steve Nash, who is stuck behind Jason Kidd in Phenox. The Mavericks wanted Nash badly but had only a lower pick and Bubba Wells and Martin Muursepp to offer. 1998-99With Nash showing an ability to run a team few NBA folks knew he had, the Celtics breeze throug the post M.J. East before losing to the Trail Blazers in The Finals. Mcgrady and Duncan each average more then 20 points, and Walker settles in as a reliable third option. Nash leads the league in assists and is hailed as "better than Bob Cousy" by Seltics TV anaylyst Tommy Heinsonhn and unquestionably bigger than Larry Bird ever was" by NBC analyst Bill Walton. (That does sound like something he would say if all this was happeing doesn't it? lol)1999-2000The Lakers and Celtics engage in a seasonlong race to 70 wins on their way to the most watched Finals matchup in history. Boston beats L.A in seven games and brings the city its first NBA championship in 14 years. Pitino, arm around Red Auerbach and flanked by his team at Boston's victory celebration, lights up a Cigar to the roar of the crowd: When I came here three years ago and Red was gracious enough to turn the team over to me (Auerbach winces), I knew this day would come. These guys"- Turningtoward Duncan, Nash Walker, and Mcgrady- are this generations Bird, McHale, Johnson and Parish. We couldnt hae done it without all the postive energy in this town." McGrady flirts with the Magic in the offseason, but both he and Duncan sign six year deals to stay in Boston. Tea after team weaches for the next Pitino from the college ranks. Many of the college game's best coaches- Roy Williams, Gary Willaims, Tom Izzo--are lured by the NBA.2001-04Lakers-Celtcs is bigger then it was in the 1980's so NBC extends its contract with the league and continues to act as its de facto marketing ar,/ (Duncan/McGrady vs Shaq/Kobe, Sunday NBC!) The teams meet in four more Finals, the send and third of which the Lakers win when Jordan shifts the balance of power by joining the Lakers and former coach Phil Jackson for a run at his seventh and eighth rings. Jordan retires again aftter the 2002-03 season, and Pitino drives the Celtics hardto a championship in 2004. Pitino retires from the Celtivs at season's end to take a position as deputy commissioner and the heir apparent to David Stern. McGrady sets out to prove himself on his own, opting out of his contract and signing with his hometown Magic. Duncan extends his contact another six years and pledges to retire a Celtic. 2005- Present When the league renegotiates its CBA in 2005m Stern considers installing an age minimum, but, amid record television ratings and popularity om the part fueled by preps-to-pros McGrady and Kobe Bryant, he doesn't want to mess with a good thing. Florda coach Billy Dononvan takes over as coach of the Celtics, but Duncan and Nash get no further than the Eastern Conference Finals in their first two years without Pitino. In the 2006 Draft two high schoolers--Greg Odem and Kevin Durant, stand out. Oden is taken by the morbun Spurs with the first pick . Durant a lesser-known prospect, goes to Minnasota at No. 6. He averages 29 points as a rookie alongside Kevin Garnett and leads the Top-seeded T-Wolves to sweep Golden State in the first round of the playoffs, Up nextL rookie if the year Oden and the Spurs. My Thoughts: I honestly don't think any of that would of happend but I enjoyed reading it anyway and wanted to share it with you all. I got some good laughs out of some of it. Especially the part where Jordan joins the Lakers as well as the part where Boston beats LA in 7 games in 1999-2000. I do wish they would of said what they think would happen in the series between the T-Wolves and the Spurs and who would go on to the Finals but oh well. What do you all think of the article?
Yeah... yeah... we all saw it. We've all seen it more than once. Today was the worst possible time you could have posted this. Sorry to sound like an ass, but you can understand my frustrations: I'm locking this.
