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Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:36 pm**

This just in from the NBA office:

Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce and Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson have each been fined $25,000 for making menacing gestures during games played this weekend, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Executive Vice President Basketball Operations.

The incident involving Pierce occurred in the fourth period of the Celtics

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:37 pm**

That's ridiculous that Pierce was fined. It's probably standard protocol though.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:38 pm**

That is joke.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:40 pm**

how much was al horford fined?

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:49 pm**

wow. . what a joke. the league obviously has NO idea what is going on. would they fine a hawks player for throwin up the A. . or any player reppin his city?? its the same as poppin your jersey.

this is Boston, we throw the 3s round here.

check the avvy

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:50 pm**

horford wasnt fined.

here'sa link from nba, but its AP, same story
http://www.nba.com/news/fines_080428.html

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:55 pm**

haha. . wonder what the fans will be doin wednesady?? hmmmmmm

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:11 pm**

I don't understand what's menacing about that gesture. Maybe it has a significance that both Pierce and the NBA are aware of, but I have no clue what that might be.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:13 pm**

This is stupid and Pierce shouldn't have to pay one dime. The league fining for gang signs when it could be anything...are you kidding me?

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:16 pm**

Pierce shoulda just flipped him the birdy if he was gonna get fined anyways

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:16 pm**

"It's trash talk, get used to it" "So what if he was taunting pierce" yada yada yada.

Well, trash talk just got our captain fined 25,000 dollars, and al horford nothing. Can you see why I and other celtic fans were pissed?? Good thing scal was there to hold PP back, otherwise who knows, he might have been suspended. Things like this have happened before, a instigator like Q-rich (and hawks fans, I am not comparing Horford to q-rich at all!) can get in pierces head. So when I see things that horford did last game, it get's me a little upset.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:19 pm**

what shows u the nba is out for the celtics, and always will be until stern is out of office, is that Horford did not get a tech, or a fine, or anything for what he did.

Perk gets techs for staring at a guy, not talking, not moving.

Yet he can jump up and down pointing and screaming while running right at pierce, and nothing.

Would not have affected that game at all, we had loss, but it would have let him know u can't do it, now the c's will retaliate, and somebody will get a t for us, or an ejection. Just plain old poor officiating and pathetic, pathetic leadership by the nba commish.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:20 pm**

Horford wasn't fined?!?!

The guy yelled at someone lying on the freaking ground. What a joke.

I really hope Pierce goes off tonight and puts the lame rook in his place.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:25 pm**

I am deaf. I am very skilled in sign language. I don't even know what Pierce said.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:29 pm**

ALRIGGGHHHHT boys and girls, heres a little history for you:
http://www.weeklydig.com/news-opinions/ ... /mean-team

They make a mean team, my Adidas and the Bean

If there's one thing that the 50-plus people interviewed for this story agree on, it's that Boston's worn Adidas since pimps in fish tank pumps pushed pink Caddies through Scollay Square. Most true-schoolers trace the trend back to the early '80s, though Floorlords founder Lino Delgado remembers heads religiously rocking stripes as far back as 1979. Roxbury rap bishop Edo G says that although Adidas had a presence in the late '70's, the fever spread around 1986, when, on the strength of "My Adidas" and "Walk This Way," Run DMC's Raising Hell became the first rap album to go platinum (sorry, white folks -- there's no Aerosmith connection).

"Run DMC might have been from New York, but everybody in New York wore Nikes, so Adidas just became part of Boston's identity," Edo says.

good read, go check it out. itll let ya know the paul is down with boston through and through

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:32 pm**

Like I said in a previous thread, Pierce is going for at least 35 tonight.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:43 pm**

My deaf girlfriend just said NBA is fining Pierce for saying "preacher"?

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:44 pm**

Warning for avoiding the filter. canman

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:58 pm**

So that's what the kids consider "menacing" nowadays.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:58 pm**

It did seem a bit menacing. But what really seemed menacing was the guy Standing Over a player on the floor Shouting and Pointing.

I don't care about the trash talk - but standing over a guy shouting and pointing is just out of line.

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