Celtics Big Three
Horford the holdover from the original cast was extraordinary finishing with 26 points on 13 of 17 shooting.
Celtics big three. Paul pierce had a pretty decent night himself. Boston celtics start hot. He scored 4 of. Many members of that celtics team garnett pierce and rajon rondo in particular viewed allen s move as a betrayal and allen says they still haven t forgiven him.
While james ultimately got the better of garnett in miami an argument could be made that the king wouldn t have joined the heat in the first place if he didn t have the celtics big three. The celtics found a new big three at least for one important night. The big three nicknamed the boston three party were a trio of professional basketball players for the boston celtics of the national basketball association nba from the 2007 08 nba season to the 2011 12 nba season the big three consisted of kevin garnett paul pierce and ray allen all three of those players were selected within the first ten picks. A pretty big night for the new big three in the td garden.
Now while superstars still team up by twos threes and fours the term big three is not used as often as it was in the days when the boston celtics had one with ray allen paul pierce and kevin garnett nor the days when the heat had their high profile version with lebron james dwyane. The big three of bird mchale and parish played together for the celtics until 1992 won three nba championships together and were later described as the best nba frontcourt of all time. Doc rivers steered the celtics through the lockout shortened campaign and the celtics were deemed as the biggest. These guys kind of removed me from the big three said so many negative things about me and i haven t had one negative thing to say about any of them allen said.
The following season would prove to be the last one of the original big three era. The boston celtics began their journey with a huge win against the washington wizards.