Boston Celtics' Paul Pierce (34) celebrates after shot in the third quarter of Game 1 of the NBA basketball finals agianst the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday, June 5, 2008, in Boston. Pierce scored 22 points as Boston won the first game in the best-of-seven series 98-88.

Just like that, those familiar chants of "Beat L.A.," dormant for more than two decades, were silenced once again. As Paul Pierce laid in pain near the edge of the famed parquet floor, clutching his injured right knee and weeping, a new cry -- "Let's go Paul" -- filled the air before Boston's captain was carried from the floor by his teammates and whisked to the locker room in a wheelchair.


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