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Maybe you missed Jeff Green’s game-winner in Cleveland Wednesday night because you were watching Chicago end the Heat’s winning streak.
Green has been a subject of some derision in New England for the 4-year $36 million contract he signed last August after having open-heart surgery. Celtics fans were pretty ticked off that Boston had signed him after such an intense amount of cutting for a pretty important bodily organ.
The game-winner against Cleveland was a little more special that just a much needed respite from the Celtics’ recent 5-game losing streak. The man who performed the surgery on Green, Dr. Lars Svensson, was actually in attendance at the Garden.
Said Green to Boston Globe staffer, Baxter Holmes, (by way of Chris Ryan), after his winning lay-up:
“Just a year ago and a couple months, I was under that bright light with him working on me. […]
It’s a blessing to be here.
That was for him.”
After the game, the two men embraced.
It got a little dusty as I was reading that Globe article. If you’re not rooting for Jeff Green, I don’t know what to tell yuh.
Larry Bird on the cheap shots of Bill Laimbeer—not to mention sliding under the shooter, which led to a lot of Robert Parish ankle tweaks; the contemporary referee proclivity for flagrant fouls when it’s not really flagrant (hello J.R. Smith); the exhibition game theatrics between the Sixers and Celtics, and more.
