Game 2 - Celts at Toronto: Overtime win, please.

Welcome back to the show. It's a shame that blowouts against like the one against the Wizards go get national television time while games like Sunday's thriller against the Raptors goes unwatched by people not in the local markets. You know what that means? Yahoo.com refreshes every 30 seconds.

If only we were all like Kazaam, we would smoke pole....I mean, we'd magically put the game on television. For the record, I made more at work today than I think that movie has grossed to date. But making fun of failed movies won't do anything but make me personally feel better.

Why make fun of Whaq? "He Got Game" is your dad. Bankroll.

Anyways, to the aformentioned game, Boston traveled to the Great White North to take on the division leading (at that point in time) Toronto Raptors, led by the one and only President Bosh.

Important game notes:

• Doc Rivers' father passed away Sunday morning before the game and did not make the trip with the team to coach. The most sincere condolences possible. Doc is one of the all around good guys in the entire league, home coach or not. Tom Thibodeau took over coaching duties for the evening.


• PGA Tour (Not my nickname. We'll see how it sticks): Pierce - 13 pts, 6 assists, 5 rebounds, Garnett - 23 points, 13 rebounds, and 6 assists, Allen - 33 points (game high), 4 rebounds. Offensive output = gross.


• TJ Ford led the Raps with 32 points, and Bosh chipped in 19 points and 10 rebounds. That was probably Ford's best game since entering the NBA.


• Ridiculous stat of the night: Bosh and former 1st overall pick Andrea Bargnani combined to miss all 12 shots they took in the first half from the floor. If you are the Raptors, that's one of the last things you could ever want to see with the season still young.


• The final bucket of the game came off a (drawn up) Garnett screen, a Paul Pierce inbounds pass, and a Ray Allen 3 pointer. Synergy in Beantown? This is all so delicious.


• Two slightly impressive milestones:

A) Paul Pierce passed Sam Jones for 6th place on the Celtics scoring list with his 13 points, giving him 15,416 for his career. He is now only behind the Cous, McHale, The Chief, Larry Legend, and, of course, John Havlicek.

B) Ray Allen passed 17,000 career points with his first 3 pointer in the overtime session. He now has 17,004 for his career, giving him 17,000 more than Tim Legler has for his.

Tonight is the next game against the Denver Nuggets. That means 'Melo and Capt. No Practice. I would say this would be a big early season test, but the Nuggets lost last night to the Knicks by the score of 119-112. Check out this stat sheet:

• Randolph - 22 points, 17 rebounds.


• Crawford - 25 points.


• Eddy Curry - 24 points. (Who was guarding Eddy Curry? Me?)


• Starbury - 21 points, 9 assists.

Despite the good night, the only thing lower than the prices of that amazing shoe is the Knicks' chances of winning the NBA Championship.

Update Friday afternoon before the big weekend of games against the Hawks (1-2) and Nets (Huge.)

Atlantic Division standings as of 11/7:

1. Boston (2-0)
2. New Jersey (3-1)
3. New York (2-1)
4. Toronto (2-2)
5. Philth (1-2)

Think Big until then, kids.