Why This Edition Of Lakers-Celtics Will (Or Won’t) Be Different

Alright, enough with the Conference Finals.  Enough with exaggeration and panic and fans and media alike going crazy.  Time for something REALLY compelling.

No match-up in basketball - heck, no match-up in SPORTS - is more compelling, more exciting, more bloodcurdling than Lakers-Celtics...or Celtics-Lakers, to be fair to both sides of the coin.  No two teams have ever met so often to determine the champions of their sport.

Not Dodgers-Yankees.  Not Cowboys-Steelers.  Not even close.

With 32 leagues championships and 50 (that's right) Finals appearances between the two before this year, it only makes sense that the Lakers and Celtics would meet once again.  Before the summer solstice rolls around, the combined total of Larry O'Brien t...

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