Rasheed Wallace goes too far

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Rasheed Wallace was never one to shy away from making bold statements. When he was a Detroit Piston there were a few playoff games where Rasheed Guaran-Sheed a victory. Usually the Guaran-shee came true, but not always.

Now before you get all huffy about Rasheed keep in mind that players like Rasheed help the attitude of your team. You need a player that is so fearless, so tough, so outspoken, with a dash of bad boy to them to put down the other team and trivialize their chances. This takes away the fear in your teammate’s eyes and replaces it with an attitude of “Hey, if Rasheed says they are punks then they must be punks!”

Rasheed will need to throttle LeBron for the Celtics to be the best!

This time Rasheed must have been hanging around Jon Kitna of the Lions will win 12 games fame. This time Rasheed has predicted that the Celtics will be the all time greatest team with the all time greatest record.

The depth of Celtic belief in themselves started to be revealed in that Media Day interview with Celtic owner Wyc Grousbeck. He revealed one interesting thing about that private meeting with Rasheed. Wyc said that Kevin Garnett told Rasheed that if he came to the Celtics they could ‘be one of the greatest teams ever.’ That is correct. One of the greatest teams…ever.

A throw away line? Maybe. Until Doc goes on NBATV and says that he wants this Celtic team ‘to be in the conversation’ as one of the…. greatest defensive teams in NBA history. No wait. Make that in sports history. And he said he was serious.

So a season’s quest to reclaim a lost title just became more than that. It is a quest for a special place in sports history. Not just the basketball and not just the NBA. Doc Rivers said that they want to be considered as the 1985 Chicago Bears are for football, as the greatest defensive team (in Doc’s opinion)…ever. Or are at least in that conversation.

For the record, the Chicago Bears that year set a few Super Bowl records. Wiki….

“The Bears set Super Bowl records for sacks (7) and fewest rushing yards allowed (7). The Bears’ 36-point margin over the Patriots was a Super Bowl record until Super Bowl XXIV (45). The Patriots were held to negative yardage (-19) throughout the entire first half, and just 123 total yards in the entire game, the second lowest total in Super Bowl history.”
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Now there are two things wrong with all this.
1. Are you kidding me? That is Michael Freaking Jordan you are talking about.
2. Rasheed often opens his mouth and words come out that don’t mean anything. So many things would have to go right for them to be better than Michael’s team that it ain’t even funny.

But then Rasheed did Guaran-sheed it, didn’t he?

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