{"id":77185,"date":"2009-11-28T06:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T06:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/11\/28\/raptors-must-show-pride\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T06:10:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T06:10:41","slug":"raptors-must-show-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/raptors-must-show-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors must show PRIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"
Let’s just get to it shall we? Just in case you missed it, we’ll fast forward to the 11:39 point of the 4th quarter of last night’s game vs. the Boston Celtics (courtesy of RedsArmy.com<\/a>):<\/span><\/p>\n Jay Triano, Marc Iavaroni, and Alex English were the only ones who were immediately up in arms about Paul Pierce’s post-dunk posturing. The rest of the Raptors team appeared to just take it,\u00a0as if\u00a0they were fine with what just occurred. Maybe they were?<\/span><\/p>\n Could you imagine the ’80’s Celtics or Lakers not reacting to that? Or the\u00a0’90’s Pistons, Knicks, or Bulls? Or ANY NBA team from the ’70’s, ’80’s or ’90’s for that matter. That just wouldn’t fly. In those days Paul Pierce would have gotten a message one way or another.<\/p>\n After the game’s conclusion, during\u00a0ESPN’s telecast of the Thunder\/Bucks game, ESPN\u00a0likened the Paul Pierce dunk\u00a0on Chris Bosh (I believe it could have easily been called an offensive foul)\u00a0to Deebo\u00a0punking Red in the movie ‘Friday’<\/a>. When the highlight showed\u00a0Pierce flexing his right arm while\u00a0standing over a fallen Bosh, the in-studio ESPN host\u00a0quotes one of the movie’s\u00a0more popular lines when Red exclaims:\u00a0“My grandmama gave me that chain!”. To me that just\u00a0said it all. Seriously. The Raptors\u00a0were called out\u00a0on international\u00a0televison by the ‘worldwide leader in sports’ as\u00a0being punked and bullied!<\/span><\/p>\n But, it didn’t stop there! Rasheed Wallace even called Hedo Turkoglu a flopper during the game, which landed him a technical foul.\u00a0He went on to\u00a0refer to Hedo as ‘Turkododo’ in his post game locker room comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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