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A quick reminder: Last year, when the Celtics brought together Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, most pundits stated that while the Celtics were obviously improved, they would struggle to get these three superstars to mesh and their bench would be too weak for them to be a true championship contender. This was a fair reason however - bringing star players together did not guarantee anything, in fact, there are very few cases where a team with one superstar acquired two more superstars to join him and it garnered success.

Boston is up 2-1 over the Lakers and Game 4 is tonight in LA. The Celtics will win one of the next two games in LA and finish the series up in Boston and take home banner # 17. The Lakers shouldn't even bother to show up tonight because this series is already over. I know the Laker fans are going to piss and moan about this bold statement but the truth is the Celtics have this wrapped up and I'll tell you why.

10. Kobe Bryant had to score 36 points for the Lakers to barely pull off Game 3. Not an easy task to repeat 3 more times against the Celtic's defense.

Sunday night at 9:30est the Lakers and the Celtics will face off in a highly entertaining match up at the Staples Center. The teams are relevant again, it's going to be a whole lot of fun, but this isn’t the playoffs. It’ll be sports entertainment at its pinnacle. Expect brilliant emotion rousing montages of Bird and Magic and the good ‘ole days, followed up by the new look Celtics and reemerging Lakers storming onto the court with the fervor of a German Blitzkrieg through Poland.