Celtics win NBA Championship

Game 7 is now officially moot. The Celtics clobbered the LA Lakers last night 131-92 to win their first NBA Championship in 22 years. The "Big Three", Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, were big indeed, but everyone contributed. Rajon Rondo had quite a night. Though he shot only 8-for-20 from the field, Rondo spearheaded Boston's superior defensive effort, finishing with six steals (including one monster rip from the hands of the 6-foot-10, 230-pound Lamar Odom) to go with his 21 points, eight assists and seven rebounds. For the Big Three, this was the first NBA title for each of them, and the first for the league's most-decorated franchise since the original Big Three of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish won No. 16 in 1986. Danny Ainge was the point guard for that team and the general manager for the one that won 66 games a season after winning 24 -- the biggest turnaround in NBA history. The Celtics join the 1975 Golden State Warriors and the '77 Trail Blazers as the only teams to win it all a year after missing the playoffs. I would have given Garnett the MVP instead of Pierce, but what do I know.

The last few days have brought cooler weather and rain, some even hard enough to knock the Pine pollen right out of the trees. This is good, since we were getting tired of everything, and I do mean everything, being covered in layers of sticky yellow dust. I dusted last Wednesday and by Thursday morning, you wouldn't have known anything had been cleaned at all.

PopPop is golfing today, proudly wearing his new golf shirt received from the Peas. He had been doing pretty well this year and he's off to a much better start than last year.

Tomorrow will be the Younger Pea's last day of school for the summer. Both Peas are hoping to get some kind of summer job and have submitted applications to several places.