Oh Noes!

KG will miss the entire playoffs due to his mystery knee injury. Story here. Boo.

Leon has had a great couple games back. Time for him to get buckets and contracts!

Editor post jack!


I'm going to chime in here for a hot minute. The TPS Reports have been piling up out here but I had to make the time for this. I'm sure some people will question the decision to try and bring him back for those few games but just going back and watching the injury, I don't think that really made much of a difference. There was no contact with anyone and have some weird collision ala Shaun Livingston. He literally hurt it by jumping up for an alley-oop. Jumping! His game has been too intense for too long and something like this was bound to happen. My dad summed it up the best by saying, "I'm just glad they won last year."

Be that as it may, this gives Leon a great chance to showcase his skills to cash in on a great contract next year as Kate pointed out. Big Baby will most likely start at least against Chicago. But if the C's make it past them, Powe, Big Baby, Miki Moore and probably even Robert Parish will be on the court to guard Dwight Howard. The bench guys will obviously be key in making it to the Eastern Conference finals. You know Paul Pierce is going to push it to the limit maybe even at the expense of the rest of his career. Hopefully Ray Allen will be able to turn it on a little earlier than he did last year in the playoffs. But I believe the time is now for Rondo to make "the leap" into the upper echelon of point guards. I think he'll take young Derrick Rose to school starting this weekend.

So yeah, it's going to suck to watch the playoffs without Kevin Garnett, but I don't see any reason why it still won't be a Celtics/Cavaliers finals. If KG isn't on the floor by then, it might be up to Cleveland (I didn't know they still had a team) to make sure the Los Angeles Kobes don't win the championship. Here's hoping Leon can go all Chev Chelios on everyone's ass!