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The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers match-up in the NBA Finals recall the league's glory days of the 1980s.

With 16 and 14 NBA finals wins respectively, the Celtics and Lakers have dominated the NBA throughout its history. Now the two teams have a shot at meeting again.

NBA fans are somewhat hopeful that a return to the old days is in progress.

The Lakers and the Celtics battling for NBA Championship Glory!

2008 finals preview between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers

The Lakers blowing a 24 point lead at home in must win game tarnishes the legacy of Kobe Byrant and Phil Jackson

Why the Celtics and Lakers rivalry is important for the NBA's future.

All 82 games of the 2007-2008 NBA season are in the books and the top eight teams in each conference are bracketed for the playoffs. Four matchups begin on April 19, the other four on the following day. The Boston Celtics posted the best record in the NBA (66-16)...

A preview of the 2006 NBA season.

Before this season the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics had faced each other an even 10 times in the NBA Finals. Here is a look back at those Finals.

With the Celtics knocking off the Pistons, they are set to meet their past rival Lakers in the 2008 NBA Finals

Read about the Los Angeles Lakers and preview their chances this season. Can Kobe Bryant carry the Lakers back into the playoffs?

Why the Boston Celtics will rise to the top of the Eastern Conference with the acquisition of Kevin Garnett.

Kobe Bryant and the Lakers are poised to return to the NBA finals. But the old, unappreciated, yet constantly victorious San Antonio Spurs are in their way again.

The 2007-08 NBA season is just around the corner and the Boston Celtics cannot wait to get underway. It seems the pride has returned to Celtics, and optimism is at an all time high around Boston.

Lakers Clobbered by the Celtics. Boston wins 17th title as NBA champions.

The Boston Celtics are heading in the right direction since the Larry Bird Era. Kevin Garnett is departing the Minnesota Timberwolves after the Boston Celtics agreed to acquire the All-Star forward in a multiplayer trade with the Timberwolves.

The powerhouse of the west Lakers and their eastern counterpart are hopefully going to provide hard core NBA and basketball fans an entertaining game.

An overview of the NBA Finals series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics.

A preview of the upcoming NBA playoffs, with seedings based on standings as of April 14, 2006.

According to his comments earlier this summer, Kobe was not supposed to play for the Lakers unless they made something happen ... and they didn't.

This means that the Celtics have three All-Stars, which brings them back into contention.

The Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and Sacramento Kings covet Phil Jackson. More precisely, they covet Jackson's nine championship rings. Larry Brown lingers as a nice consolation prize.

Calling all GM's, calling all GM's! Commencing this summer, sometime between the months of July and October, several NBA megastars will be on the auction block for trade to the highest bidder.

If Kobe Bryant were to stop playing today, there would be no legacy.

Kobe Bryant has suffered an injury to his pinkie finger that a doctor has suggested he have surgery on. It is torn ligament to his shooting had. The surgery on that finger would probably keep Kobe Bryant out for at least six weeks.

To say that the Boston Celtics made a fantastic turnaround from 2007 is an understatement, but for all of the talk and hype surrounding the trio of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, the only thing that is definite is the trio's lack of a championship.

Excuse me for jumping on the bandwagon, but the Los Angeles Lakers are legitimate championship contenders now!

The Los Angeles Lakers are apparently still stinging from their first round exit in the 2007 NBA Playoffs. Kobe Bryant was recently quoted as saying that if GM Jerry West does not return to the team next season, he would prefer to be traded.

The Los Angeles Lakers had a disappointing ending to a mediocre season last year. Kobe and his crew are determined to win the championship, but do they have what it takes?

Having won all three meetings between the teams this season, the Lakers Will breeze through the first round of the NBA Playoffs in a sweep.

The Boston Celtics traded half their team to acquire Kevin Garnett, but it makes them a contender in the Eastern Conference.

Looking at the Round One matchup of the Lakers vs. the Nuggets.

When the Los Angeles Lakers chose to go with Kobe Bryant instead of Shaq everybody criticized them but it turns out they were right.

Nobody expected too much from the Lakers last season. Phil Jackson came back and led the team back to the playoffs, but do they have the talent around Kobe Bryant to succeed in a deep Conference?

Kobe Bryant is perhaps the most criticized figure in sports today. Anything that Kobe says or does gets over-analyzed by television sportscasters, journalists, and fans across the country.

With a determined and less malcontent Kobe, a healthy starting squad and quality production from the good mix of veterans and youngsters, the Lakers may indeed surprise the league.

A glance at the Boston Celtics schedule over the next two months

The Boston Celtics came into the NBA playoffs with the best record in the NBA (66-16). They also came in with the best road record in the league (31-10). But the first two series of the playoffs have been grueling for the Celtics.

Kobe Bryant had a great series in round one of the playoffs agaisnt the Suns but he came up just short in game 7

Life as a Los Angeles Lakers fan can feel like a rollercoaster at times. Laker fans have enjoyed great moments like championships, 81 point performances by Kobe Bryant, and clutch shots by Robert Horry.

Preview of Spurs vs Lakers

Kevin Garnett is one of the biggest superstars in the NBA. Exactly the kind of player that is difficult for small market teams to build championship teams around.

O'Neal could soon be on the way to help Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.

A season preview of the 2006 Los Angeles Lakers.

The Los Angeles Lakers sweep the Denver Nuggets 4-0 in the Playoff Series. Will they be facing off against Utah next, or can Houston pull a rabbit out of their hat?

After the Los Angeles Lakers spirited conclusion to last season, which featured an unexpected - and hard fought - playoff appearance, the future would appear to be very bright for Kobe Bryant and his young teammates.

Kobe Bryant, shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, scored more points in back-to-back games than any player in recent memory. He scored 65 against the Trailblazers and 50 more Sunday night against the Timberwolves for an astonishing 115-point 2-game total.

The Los Angeles Lakers basketball star, Kobe Bryant, implied again that he wants to be traded. On his website kb24.com, he made a statement which said, that "the Lakers and me just have two different visions for the future."

I, unlike everyone else, refuse to crown the Boston Celtics, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Paul Pierce. I won't crown them as the NBA champions. I won't crown them as the Eastern Conference Champions.

The first round Eastern confrence game

How do the Boston Celtics, the team with the most wins in the NBA this season, come into their series against the Detroit Pistons as the underdogs?

taking a closer look at Phil Jackson's book The Last Season

With Pierce sidelined, the Celtics weren't good last year. But now they have Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen...

The 2007-2008 NBA basketball season has been quite a rollercoaster for the Los Angeles Lakers. It began in the off-season with Kobe Bryant's frequent and emphatic trade demands. Then, the Lakers got off to a sluggish start.

The Celtics, even after adding superstars, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to go along with their own longtime resident star, Paul Pierce, will not ... repeat, not, win the NBA title in 2007-08.

Amid the neverending barrage of newspaper headlines, magazine copy and barbershop talk, you think you know everything there is to know about superstar guard Kobe Bryant, but you have no idea.

A look at the Boston Celtics' Big Three Players (Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce), and analyzing how they achieve the success that they do.

The second round of the NBA playoffs started without the first round having not even been completed. It seems that the best team in the league was having a terribly difficult time eliminating the worst team to get into the playoffs.

The Boston Celtics will not have a quiet offseason.

The Lakers are back on top as an NBA playoff favorite, led by likely MVP Kobe Bryant. But will the Western Conference top seed be upset for the second year in a row?

Zen master signed a three year $30 million dollar deal to once again play ringmaster in Jerry Buss's little circus otherwise known as the Los Angeles Lakers.

Does Kobe Bryant deserve more help in getting the Lakers to the next Level?

This is an article on the 2007-08 Boston Celtics.

With Kobe Bryant desperate for help, the Lakers made a stunning trade that could put them into the Championship game

The Boston Celtics are a professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association. The Celtics play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the NBA.

After a disappointing loss in the first round of the playoffs against the Phoenix Suns, the Lakers looked to improve their team over the summer and become a championship contender once again. Find out exactly what improvements they made and who they got.

The Boston Celtics is one of the most historic teams in all of sports. With the franchise lack of making the playoffs, there will be a new look but the same goal.

Kevin Garnett has put a stop to a pending trade that would have made him a Celtic.

The public, thus far, has sided with Kobe. Analysts agree that the Lakers have not surrounded him with the necessary talent to be competitive. I disagree.

Everybody is debating about what the Kevin Garnett trade means for the Boston Celtics, but what does it mean for the Minnesota Timberwolves?

The Celtics set a record in a win going away, breaking their own record. The Lakers looked like they came to watch. It was a great game -- but only for Celtics fans...

The Boston Celtics are facing the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Warriors were the surprise of the NBA Playoffs last season eliminating the top seeded Dallas Mavericks in the first round. Golden State was 42-40, the eighth seed in the Western Conference, tied with the Lakers for second in the Pacific Division.

Tim Duncan and the Spurs look to top Kobe and the Lakers.

Arnold "Red" Auerbach not only made the Celtics great, he made the NBA relevant as well.

With Garnett now teamed up with Paul Pierce and Ray Allen can the Celtics now go deep into the Playoffs in 2008?

The Spurs somehow won a road game when it counted and now the defending champs face red hot Los Angeles in the Western Conference Finals

Forget the fact that I am a lifelong Boston Celtics fan, at this point, I would settle for some kind of competent performance from Boston's equally beleaguered bitter rivals the Philadelphia 76ers.

Before the Lakers, before the Celtics, it was a battle for College supremacy...

Los Angeles Lakers' owner Jerry Buss isn't against Kobe's departure.

We will be taking a look back at the last 10 NBA drafts, with analysis of the draft picks. Along with analysis, there will be a reordered top ten picks, along with a selection of the worst and best draft choices.

Britney Spears is rumored to be dating 6ft 8inch basketball star Luke Walton of the Los Angeles Lakers.

We will be taking a look back at the last 10 years of NBA drafts, with analysis of the draft picks. Along with analysis, there will be a reordered top ten picks, along with a selection of the worst and best draft choices.

2002 Western Conference Finals: Lakers vs. Kings

the big three of Garnett, Allen and Pierce might just make it to the championship round. There's just one team standing in their way.

The summer of 2007 will now be remembered for Boston taking a chance to reach for a championship in dark years.

Ainge made some moves that will help him keep his job, but did he make the team a contender or a pretender?

Celtics' big three are not big defenders.

This is a team ranking of the five teams that make up the Pacific Division in the NBA's Western Conference. Find out where the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers stand when compared to Sacramento's Kings, the Warriors in Oakland, and the Suns in Phoenix.

With the Red Sox in first place, the Patriots Super Bowl favorites and KG ready to join the Celtics, it's a great time to be a Boston sports fan. It sure beats the 1990s and watching Bob Zupcic, Scott Zolak and Vitaly Potapenko.

The NBA is less popular than ten years ago, because all the great teams are in the west.

With the first-round of the 2005-06 NBA playoffs just getting under way I thought this would be a perfect time to look back through the annals of NBA history and rank the ten greatest postseason performers of all-time.

If we had to apply the Justice League to the NBA, who would our heroes be…and how would they stack up with their 80's counter-parts?

The Timberwolves will need some superhuman play out of some new players to make up for the loss of star player Kevin Garnett who was traded to the Boston Celtics.

With a brand new NBA season less than a week away, it is once again time for my annual predictions on which teams will fly high, flame out and fall flat on their faces.