[Avalanche]

Gilbert Gives Boston Credit

The only reason I'm blogging is because one of the fans said to me while we were losing to Boston of Friday night, "Since you're getting your butt kicked by 20, you should blog about it."

So here I am.

Let's be honest: I've never seen anything like that before. It caught us off guard. We were so hyped coming into the locker room and then when you go on that floor … whoo!

Right now it is great to be a Boston fan. You have the Patriots, you have Boston College, you have the Celtics, you have the Boston Red Sox who just won a championship. Right now it's great to be a Boston fan and I think it's the most excited the city has been for a long time. And it showed on Friday.

The whole atmosphere was unbelievable.

The Celtics did a great job. They made shots and KG performed – 22 and 20, you can't complain about that – plus Paul Pierce is going to do what Paul Pierce does and Ray Allen is going to hit open shots and make plays. Right now, by first glance, their continuity is there. That was the thing that people were worried about and what I was trying to bank on. You know they're going to be a good team, but I was trying to bank on that hopefully they wouldn't have their chemistry …

… Oh, they had it!

They had it and I had to eat my words on national television. 0-1 on predictions is not the way you want to start out the season, especially me with my mouth.

But I did have two fans sitting on the front row wearing No. 0. They sat right next to the bench. They were two really good fans.

I've been going to Boston for many years now and I've never seen anything like that. I know most of you were watching it on TV, but if you were there you could hear them just chanting my name which was beautiful because I don't think even Michael Jordan got his name chanted in another arena like that.

Even though mine was chanted for hatred, it felt good. Now there's a bond between me and the Boston fans.

http://my.nba.com/forum.jspa?forumID=400032200&start=0

[P-Dub34]

Nice to see he owned up. Props.