Come on C's it's been a long time...

The Boston Celtics just recorded their franchise record sixteenth straight (and counting going into fridays game) loss this season. What a slide that is for one of the leagues greatest franchises, i mean what is going on here boys? They have had time, ample time, to eventually get some semblance of a competitive team together. There was a time....ehh..about ten years ago where the ol Len Bias excuse had some credibility, and then there was the untimely death of Reggie Lewis that hurt the C's. I wonder, has the Boston curse simply shifted forms...and now resides in the generic fleet center? Maybe the spirits are angry about leaving the garden? Oh sure, that would be convenient...but the reality is that even when they just missed getting Tim Duncan by one pick in the draft things just have not worked out for the c's. I feel bad...like i should do something for this franchise. I have grown up a lifelong laker fan, even though being born in Boston should make me a die hard celtic fan....i mean i grew up with the bird era...but unfortunately the lakers were too flashy and fantastic with Magic for me to look anywhere else.
So i do feel for them, i mean dammit the league itself needs this team! What a sad state it is when the knicks, celts, sixers, all the old great franchises are just stuck...stuck in a downward pull of nowheresville. The celts do have some promise, they have added a lot of youth and are the youngest team in the league, Sebastian Telfair, Gerald Green, Al Jefferson to name a few. But so what, to me the biggest mistake they made in recent years was not respecting birds savvy as a basketball executive and letting him go back to Indiana and set up shop with the pacers. I mean for a while i guess i did enjoy them struggling for one reason or another but now after what, fifteen odd years of sucking...its time to get a winner in there. Maybe in a few years we will see some of that youth pay off, and this post will seem irrelevant, not like it isn't anyway, and all will be ok for the celts. I hope so, because all i know is that it has been a long time since the celts have been relevant. So lets go c's im rooting for you now, in my own weird don't really care way...because, and i quote the former attempted celtic coach Ric Patino, "Larry Bird ain't walking through that door...Robert Parrish, Kevin Mcale ain't walking through that door folks.."
Indeed they are not.