The Boston Celtics won the deciding game of the NBA Finals in decisive fashion. A few thoughts: Kobe is the best player in the game, but the series demonstrated that basketball is a team sport. As the rowdies at the bar where I watched the game chanted, "You need Shaq! You need Shaq!" The Celtics were the epitome of team, with three legit stars sacrificing individual stats for a championship. Their bench clearly outplayed LA's. Perhaps the most important factor in the series was the Celtics' toughness and the Lakers' lack of it. They were soft not only on defense and in the paint, but they were soft in getting blown out in the deciding game and allowing the Celtics to get back into it in their game four implosion. Congratulation to the Boston Celtics, who, after 22 years, get to hang yet another banner in the rafters.

Power in the West??!! Zen Master??!! Better than Jordan??!!

Never mind....Celts rule!!!

They're crying in their Sushi in Tinseltown. Los Angeles sports fans are in the biggest front-runners ever. I wonder how many, when it was obvious the Lakers were going to lose, went and bought a Celtics t-shirt before the end of the game.

My only regret about the whole thing is the Celts didn't beat them by 100.

At least the Pats lost.

Can't win em' all Ralphie. Apparently though, they can't win any of em' in Texas.

Cowboys fans are as bad as the Lakers fans, or worse. Booooo!

Sorry Ralph, I couldn't resist.

ralph you a cowboys fan? if so i hate you! oh am i allowed to say that? but your right , im still laffing about the brady bunch choke job.

Kobe isn't the best player in the game. Lebron James did a much better job of leading a much worse team against the Celtics, and in game 7 of the semi-finals he turned in a heroic performance, though it wasn't enough.

In game 6 of this series, Kobe didn't do much of anything.

I think the Cav's or the Pistons, had they gotten past the Celtics, would have beaten the ultra-soft Lakers.

Think Koby might have had too many shots during the series.