It was a complete night for the Boston Celtics Boston, they received the trophy which they gained in the previous season of the NBA and soon they opened the new campaign with a victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, 90 to 85.
The Cavs is outlined like one of the main stumbling blocks that will have the Celtics in their eagerness to revalidate the title of the East Conference and to gain by second consecutive year the right to play the NBA finals.
So to give the first blow last night it was important for the players of Doc Rivers, they took advantage of the 27 points scored by Paul Pierce, who was the best player of the night.
In the other side the best numbers was headed – it could not be of another way by LeBron James, who closed his first action of season 2008-2009 with 22 points.
Peculiarly the five points of difference between these players were the same that marked the victory of the hosts.
Pierce cried. Pierce surely played motivated by the previous ceremony, because he was moved during the activity in which the league awarded the defending champions, and with tears rolling by his cheeks, he received the champion trophy.
With the trophy, the Celtics was crowned officially by 17th occasion in their history and the first time from the season of 1986.
Before initiating the inauguration of the present season, Pierce said that “since I was a kid I always dreamed with a moment like this”.
In the act, the team owners made delivery of the ring of champions to all the Celtics players, at the moment in which the champion’s flag was hoisted to the ceiling of the Banknorth Garden.
The ring is made of 14 white gold carats and a total of 92 diamonds and emeralds. In the central part it has a figure of an emerald clover, surrounded by 64 diamonds.
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