A Christmas Miracle: My Knicks-Celtics Thoughts

Melo makes the Garden rock.

As I finished having breakfast with my family after opening presents on Christmas morning, I realized that there were only 45 minutes left before the tip-off of the NBA season. I rushed through a shower, threw on some clothes, and hurried downstairs just in time to catch the Knicks and Celtics open the 2011-12 season. And boy am I glad that I didn't miss a second of the game.

It was an instant classic between two teams that genuinely seem to dislike each other, and that made the match-up even more intriguing than I was expecting. The game was chippy from the start, and stayed that way until the end, when after missing the potential game-tying jumper, Kevin Garnett (who even Celtics fans think is a somewhat dirty player) and Homeless Bill Walker (I call him Homeless because he looks and plays like someone who has been sleeping on the street) got into a scuffle. Homeless, a former Celtic, exchanged some words with KG, who proceeded to grab him by the throat. The incident was brief, but it summed up the game very well: it was a hard-fought battle that the Knicks eventually won.