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Originally Posted by Silock
If he were playing for KU, I'd be glad he was on the team, but that wouldn't take away from his ass-clownishness. I'm happy for Paul Pierce and what he . . . almost . . . accomplished at KU, but his stunts during the NBA Finals were pure buffoonery.
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As a Celtics fan, I do find Pierce's self-indulgence annoying at times. But, you have to remember, these NBA players of today are told early and often how great they are. And then Pierce came to a Celtics team that sucked, where he was the lone good point, and every year he had to listen to people wax nostalgic about the "good old days" of Bird/Parish/McHale and how bad the current Celtics were. Every season he watched his talented efforts go wasted. So, when they finally hit the big time with Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, what you were watching was really a career's worth of pent-up frustration IMO.