1. What is your favorite memory of Paul Pierce with the Celtics?
Brian Robb: Too many to list. There are the obscure regular season game-winners, like the impossible corner 3 against the Wizards back in 2005. The 2002 fourth quarter comeback against the Nets in the conference finals will always rank amongst the best. The Game 7 showdown with LeBron in 2008 has to take the cake though, beating the best in the world, with an assist from Red Auerbach at the free throw line to clinch it.
Brendan Jackson: 2003, Game Four of the Opening Round series against the Indiana Pacers. My friend Dev and I originally had seats in the 300s against the wall. Dev had just broken his leg a week before, so to accommodate his crutches, the FleetCenter put us up in the Halo. With the 3rd quarter winding down in a hotly-contested, back-and-forth game, Paul Pierce settled in for one of his many career buzzer-beater attempts. From our vantage point, all you could see was Pierce and Al Harrington trash talking each other and the bottom of the net. We knew it was going in before anyone else in the building. Sometimes when I want to feel that level of elation again, I watch this video:
Michael Pina: The most emotional Ive ever been watching Paul Pierce play basketball was during Game 1 of the 2008 NBA Finals. The dramatic comeback (and it was dramatic in real time) from a possibly serious knee injury to knocking down two huge threes was so amazing. Those shots are why Pierce is a basketball hero.
