Dr. Joe Sullivan, or How I learned to ignore plagiarism and hate Peter May anyway
Dear Dr. Sullivan,
I want to discuss with you the case against Peter May. Other than the fact that he is a biased pig who doesn’t even enjoy basketball, nevermind covering it’s most storied franchise in the capital city of the state in which the game was invented, Mr. May has long displayed the kind of journalistic ethics we here in the Boston Sports Media have long found troubling. {The people site Mark Blount and Peter May vs. The Team in Green - basically as the right hand man of arch saboteur Mark Blount, Peter helped constantly undermine both the personal integrity of the management and staff of the Boston Celtics, but also their ability to put a better product out on the floor. He did this through poor analysis and personal vendetta. It is then without great irony then I present new evidence that should require his suspension if not his outright firing. We the readers, the silent sufferers,, we will be silent no more!
Peter May copied his leads to the Laker’s story. We would not bring it up were it not his continued assault on our organization with snide sniping remarks about his belief in the future Doc has with the club
Let’s take Doc Rivers at his word when he says he fully intends to return to the Celtics next season. (Me? I’ll believe it when I see it.)
Now I have it out for you, you button down flannel wearing geekboy!!!
Joe Sullivan, Sports Editor,
All I ask of you is to
By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer
BOSTON —
On his way to a quiet Sunday night at the movies in Boston, Kobe Bryant was heckled by a Celtic fan.
“The guy told me, ‘Paul’s going to lock you up,’ ” Bryant said.
“Paul” would be Celtic forward Paul Pierce, and there was little locking up of Bryant on Monday. He scored 43 points on 18-for-39 shooting in the Lakers’ 105-97 victory over the Celtics at TD Banknorth Garden.
The moral of the story is to not irk Bryant, particularly when he’s on his way to see “V for Vendetta.”
After a slow start, he was good enough to pull the Lakers a half-game ahead of Sacramento for seventh in the Western Conference, although the Bryant shot-count debate was partially re-ignited, and even though “V” also stood for victory.
He took more shots in only two other games this season — 46 in his 81-point effort against Toronto and 41 in early January against the Clippers.
“Kobe fought his way through it,” Laker Coach Phil Jackson said. “It was one of those games where I think the numbers of shots he took was too high, but he thought he was going to get fouled and he took the shots because he felt the pressure on him.”
He scored the final 14 Laker points after Luke Walton’s free throws with 8:14 to play put the Lakers ahead, 93-80.
and then:
By Peter May, Globe Staff | March 21, 2006
Kobe Bryant went to the movies Sunday night. Someone there recognized him — duh — and offered the following: ‘’Paul is going to lock you up.” Bryant got a chuckle out of that, because he knows, as does Paul Pierce, that no one really ever locks up Kobe. (We’ll leave it at that.) And no one did last night, for sure.
The Lakers’ supernova needed 39 shots to score 43 points, but, as he put it bluntly after Los Angeles’s 105-97 victory, ‘’I gotta do what I gotta do to help us win. I don’t care if it’s 50 shots, 60 shots, five shots. I’m just doing what I need to do. When the game is on the line, put the ball in my hands.”
Bryant had 16 of his 43 in the fourth quarter (on 6-of-10 shooting) and no one not named Kobe scored a single point for the Lakers in the final eight minutes. It was a huge win for the Lakers who, as coach Phil Jackson stated before the game, have the playoffs as their mission for the season. The Lakers are fighting with the Kings for the No. 7 spot, and with 10 of their last 13 at home (including tomorrow night against the Kings), they conceivably could move even higher.
Now do you still want him working at your a paper? Can your career handle it?
