[ChuckElias]

Tommy, I'm not asking for an apology. You're obviously entitled to your opinion. I'm just trying to figure out what your opinion is. Pierce doesn't have "it". Ok, I guess I can't really argue with that. On the other hand, he's the best player the Celtics have had since Bird retired.

I do watch the Celts quite a bit, and it seems to me that he plays hard when he's in the game; he does whatever the team asks him to do; he's not a selfish player. And he's done all this after he almost died in a knife attack. The only "superstar" thing he probably doesn't do is "make everybody around him better". And he can't do anything about the fact that people outside Boston don't adore him.

So he doesn't have "it". If we could get a couple players just like Pierce, even without "it", we'd destroy the East every year.