Tag Archives: Boston Celtics

Shadenfreude Alert: Ex-Boston Celtics Bomb in the Big Town

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

This past year in the NBA, there was a lot of shipping down from Boston – to New York. In June the Celtics shipped point guard Kemba Walker to the Oklahoma City Thunder, who promptly waived him, allowing Walker to sign … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alec Burks, Boston Celtics, Evan Fournier, Hoopan Deb, Kemba Walker, Knickleheads, New York Knicks, New York Times, Oklahoma City Thunder, Sopan Deb, Tom Thibodeau | Leave a comment

Revisiting Boston Garden, ‘The Old Barn on Causeway Street’

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

The building was forty-one years old [in 1969]. Hard years. In a cramped and shopworn corner of the city, one flight up from the train station, surrounded by elevated subway tracks and an elevated highway that kept sunshine and clean … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1981 Eastern Conference Finals, 1982 Eastern Conference Finals, 1984 Heat Game, 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals, Andrew Toney, Atlanta Hawks, Basketball for the Player the Fan and the Coach, Beat LA, Billy Knight, Bob Ryan, Boston Celtics, Boston Globe, Danny Ainge, Dominique Wilkins, FleetCenter, Hubie Brown, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin McHale, Larry Joe Bird, Leigh Montville, Magic Johnson, Marvin Barnes, Mike Fratello, Nate Archibald, New York Knicks, Nightfall, Philadelphia 76ers, Red Auerbach, Shawmut Center, Sports Team History, Tall Men Short Shorts, TD Garden, The Boston Strangler, The Great Sidney Wicks/Curtis (Skid) Rowe Dumpster Fire, The Hick From French Lick, Tiny Archibald, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin | 4 Comments

In Its Current Form, NBA = Not Basketball Actually

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

So last night I’m watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Phoenix Suns (rising) and the Milwaukee Bucks (buckling) and thinking, what the hell has happened to professional basketball because it sure doesn’t look like the game I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1984 NBA Finals, Boston Celtics, Boston Garden, Gerald Henderson, Larry Bird, Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks, NBA, NBA Finals, Phoenix Suns, three point mania | 2 Comments

WSJ Gives Page One Shoutout to Boston’s ‘Discount Diplomat’

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has noted on numerous occasions the Wall Street Journal’s A-Hed, home of those quirky features that have adorned the paper’s front page since 1943. This weekend’s Journal brings us Andrew Beaton’s international story with a decidedly local flavor. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A-Hed, Andrew Beaton, Boston Celtics, Cricket World Cup, Discount Diplomat, Greg Conley, Irish hurling championships, Nagano, Olympics, Ryder Cup, Seoul, Tour de France, Wall Street Journal, World Cup | Leave a comment

Pepsi Puts Its Commercial and a Movie Into the Same Can

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Kyrie Irving is Pepsi’s choice of a new generation of ads. And New York Times culture reporter Sopan Deb has been on the Boston Celtics star like Brown on Williamson for weeks now. Start with this piece last month. ‘Uncle … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Celtics, Brands&Films, cinemad, Harlem, Kyrie Irving, Lackawanna Railroad, like Brown on Williamson, Lil Rei Howery, Marion Murray Gorsch, Nick Kroll, Pepsi, Rucker Park, Sneak ADtack, Sopan Deb, The Great Train Robbery, Thomas Edison, Tiffany Haddish, Uncle Drew, Uncle Drew: Flat Earth Round Ball | Leave a comment

When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés (‘Tamper Down’ Edition)

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

From our That’s Just Sad desk Every now and again the hardclipping staff chronicles the mangled phrases uttered by the differently clichéd among us and, man, they are legion. Here’s our latest batch, in reverse chronological order. • The other … Continue reading →

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Boston ‘Dream’ Doc Thomas Graboys Gets Elegant Farewell

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Tom Graboys was someone special. From his sweet Boston Globe sendoff by Bryan Marquard: Dr. Thomas Graboys, 70; cardiologist, writer On hospital rounds Dr. Thomas Graboys listened carefully to a chorus of beating hearts, placing his stethoscope on the warm, damp … Continue reading →

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Celtics ADknowledge Boston Herald’s Existence

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The hardreading staff has noted two instances lately of tribute ads that ran in the Boston Globe but not in the Boston Herald. And so it was with no little interest that we saw this in today’s stately local broadsheet: Which sent … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Celtics, Boston Daily, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston magazine, Eric Randall, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce | Leave a comment

Miami Vise (NBA Championship Edition)

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Behold the Miami-Industrial Complex: That MiamiWhereWorldsMeet crowd got together to run this ad in Tuesday’s New York Times celebrating the Heat’s second consecutive NBA Championship: You know what’s really So Miami? 400,000 people turned out for the victory parade. Roughly the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2008 victory parade, AlterNet, Boston Celtics, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureaui, MIA, Miami DDA, Miami Heat, MiamiWhereWorldsMeet, NBA, NBA Champions, New York Times, Port Miami | 3 Comments

Rivers Flows Only Toward Globe

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Looks like Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers is playing favorites with the local dailies. From today’s Boston Globe: Doc Rivers mum on returning to Celtics MIAMI — Doc Rivers reached out to the Globe for the first time since the Celtics’ season concluded, … Continue reading →

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