(P.S: boston fans suck. you only jump on the wagon for teams when they get in a championship position, but during the hard times you guys are nowhere to be found. Exception being the Sox fans.)
This isn't true. The general consensus in New England is that we would rather not watch a particular sport than root for a team that isn't from Boston (or Foxborough lol). Just because SportsCenter didn't carry Celtics games during their bad stretch doesn't mean that they had no fans. The media's coverage is biased towards teams that are good, rightfully so. But just because you didn't hear from the fans doesn't mean we weren't there. Why would there ever be a lack of Celtic fans? The tics have won more than 1/4 of the NBA Championships, including EIGHT IN A ROW, getting to the finals 12 out of 13 years and winning 11 of those, all feats that will never be accomplished again by any professional team in any sport. Saying that there has been no support for this team during the bad times is blatantly wrong and is ironically indicative of your own jumping on a bandwagon, the "we hate Boston" bandwagon.
We get it- its cool to hate New England. Everyone on TV does it, especially sportscasters (I'm looking at you, Stephen A. Smith, Michael Wilbon, Jeff Van Gundy and Joe Buck), but unfortunately people only see these guys shitting on NE/Boston and people follow suit without seeing local coverage (i.e. what the teams are actually doing) by then spewing their biased opinion that is based off of already biased coverage.
Plus, the Celtics had 24 wins last year and now they are up 3-2 in the FINALS after having the best record in the regular season...and now we're bandwagon jumpers for rooting for them? Why should we not be excited?
p.s. if the refs blow another call like they did in game 5, the NBA may finally have to answer the tough questions about crooked referees....
and why bavetta was one of the refs in game 5 despite being one of the refs accused of fixing games.
Another interesting thing to note along these lines is that the Celtics and Lakers both had exactly the same amount of free throws (31)...maybe the NBA was trying to get Bavetta in on a critical game whose box score shows perfectly even officiating? *coughCONSPIRACYcough*
This is pretty far fetched but given the current state of the NBA, I wouldn't be surprised.
re-edit: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GO CELTICS
(and thank you Celtics for confirming my response to VIL's post)