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Our 7th game of the season was another win (102-90)!

• Baby now has 28 drawn charges (30 offensive fouls drawn total)
• With all the Celtics injuries, Nate and Semih started – and still all starters finished in the double digits, as did BBD.
• The Captain, KG and BBD all had double-doubles.
• All in all, it was a nice win.
• Sidenote: Our dancers are looking more and more like Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.  This is unfortunate.

We saw the Celtics beat the Nuggets 105 to 89 in our 6th game of the season (we’re 5-1 in wins attended thus far and the C’s are 17-4 overall).

It was a weird game in consistency of play quality, but also because we had to go late.  We went first to a work party and then caught a cab to the Garden and made it before the end of halftime.  We were glad not to miss the game, because it felt like we hadn’t been to one in so long, but going late is not in our style book.  We feel pretty lucky that we work/live so close that we can be there in time for tip-off on a regular basis.

We were sad to note that once again a team’s star player sat out for our game – no Carmelo Anthony.  That’s 3 games/teams/guys now, and always a bummer.

The highlight of the night was 28 points for Ray.

Gino was making his way out – but the PTB didn’t find it appropriate after double Ts were awarded to Baby and Nene.  So then we had to wait until the end of the game.  It’s always weird when they show Gino when the game is OVER – obviously the game is “in hand” … it is over.  Oh well.  Here are a few pictures from Game-Over-Gino-Game-Really-Over.

Our Celtics Game 5 was a W (110-101).

Our attended games are 4-1 and the Celtics are 12-4 total.

• We saw Rondo return after missing 3 games due to a bad hammy, and get 14 assists.
• We saw a TON of alley oops – it was pretty ridiculous.
• The second unit couldn’t keep the huge leads the starters would build, but the starters were on top of it.
• It was a pretty chippy game from where we were sitting – KG was running around the whole game with his arms in the air as if he wasn’t causing trouble – but trouble was all around.
• We saw KG (Player of the Game) score his season high (so far, 16 games) of 26 points.
• We ALSO got to see Ray Allen do Name That Tune – in falsetto!  Pretty awesome! (video below)

This is what happens under the Jumbotron during the intro video:  Dancers and Lucky on stilts with big foam hands.

Ray Allen’s awesomeness:

Player of the Game: KG

And check out KG’s season high 26 points (not to mention 11 rebounds)

Our Celtics Game 4.

We saw our first loss (84-89) tonight, but that wasn’t the biggest bummer of the evening.

• We didn’t get these tickets under our season ticket plan; we bought them separate and sat in a different section than normal. Needless to say, we really appreciate our regular seats, section, view and neighbors.
• After not getting to see Wall play two nights ago, tonight Durant was out! That was a big bummer for us – he is our favorite non-Celtic.  But that wasn’t the biggest bummer of the evening either.
• We got to see Nate do Name That Tune (video below!) he gets the dance moves in! Awesome – not a bummer! (The camera mic picks up our Drunky McDrunkerson neighbors though.)
• And we saw the drunkies steal a phone from their seat neighbors, get caught, deny it, and then punch their female victim in the face.  It was a major bummer (the biggest of the evening).

Our view for tonight’s game:

Our Celtics Game 3.

We saw a shellacking of the Wizards – a fun win (114-83) but no Wall (that made us sad).

• We saw Delonte‘s return!
• We saw Rondo‘s 7th double-double of the season (in 11 games – he had 40 in the regular season last year)
• We now know Grandpa Celtic’s birthday… It’s today!!!
• We saw the first Gino appearance of the season!!!
• We found out that Wizard’s Martin is a dingbat.  The Celtics were dribbling out the last few seconds to not be ruthless and increase the lead even more and he stole the ball with 2 seconds left – which gave us a funny picture shown below where the jumbotron folks too early showed the “Celtics win” sign before the game was really over… this isn’t so bad as an inaccurate Gino or anything, but still.

One of my favorite sights:

Delonte checks in for the first time (the sequel):

He got a rousing ovation!

Nate nails a 3 – check out the point spread!

The Big Three were just having a good time hanging out.

Grandpa Celtic’s Birthday!

A fun photo of the point spread – 37 points!

The first Gino appearance of the season!

Game’s not over yet folks! Still 2 seconds left! And Martin hit his free throws after he was fouled after the steal.

Real final score with Paul as Player of the Game.

Also another attempt at capturing the intro vid – there was a nice shot of Delonte in there tonight: