Celtics delayed in LA

Lets Get it done Lakers....

Sounds fishy to me, someone at LAX is up to something

Ok, now i want to know if the Lakers plane has left. Also WTF wik cant get another plane? This is serious BS.

it's a conspiracy!!!

Can you say Stern / .... what a rigged league the nba is

Safe trip Celtics!!! Get pumped up on the plane for a big win tomorrow night! Welcome home soon! GO CELTICS!!!! Magic Number is 17!

BAD OMEN....HOPEFULLY THE TEAM CAN TAKE FLIGHT IN THE 1ST QUARTER TOMORROW AND WRAP THIS THING UP AT HOME...THAT IS IF OUR BOYS CAN GET HOME..... I HAVE NO INTEREST IN WATCHING BASKETBALL ON THURSDAY NIGHT...THE TIME TO PULL THE PLUG ON THE LAKERS' SEASON IS TOMORROW....THE PERKINS/RONDO INJURIES ARE A BIGGER ISSUE THEN I EVER IMAGINED...THE LONGER THIS GOES THE WORSE IT COULD BE NOW YOU THROW IN RAY'S FAMILY SITUATION AND THE BROKEN PLANE....ENOUGH ALREADY...THE KARMA GODS NEED TO KNOW THE C'S HAVE PAID THEIR DUES THE PAST 22 YEARS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!

Seriously. Paul Pierce stuck his arms out the window and flapped them back to Boston. This was as of 5:30 pm Eastern Time. The man is God. 0 % chance we are losing game 6. You heard it here. ZERO.

The NBA is messed up expecting to travel one day and play the next. Now they don't get back until midnight.

Some one needs to hit the fire alarm in the Lakers hotel at 2:00 am and 6:00 am.........

Some one is paying off the airline w/ mechanical issues

Wow those people in LA will got any length to gain an advantage. wonder if the refs had something to do with that just like missing that key foul on Bryant last night that changed the game. These refs are a joke!

Are the lakers still in LA or did their plane get to Boston?

celtics plane has "issues"?Kobe Bryant has more issues than that plane!

celtics plane has "issues"?Kobe Bryant has more issues than that plane!

Glad things seem to be better for Ray and family. Still on the ground? Do they charter Delta/United/American etc? Always wondered how that works.

This is a joke! It is the freakin' clinching game of the NBA finals! How come Wyc didn't charter a plane as soon as it was apparent it wasn't taking off by noon? They won't be home til 2 am at best. This is not good Karma...I hope the Zen master in LA doesn't also have a voodoo doll...jeesh...

Your old playrs will feel the long trip Thursday. Too bad. This is your one chance for a championship for awhile. Lakers have a super team for next few years.

Sabotage by the Fakers.......

That's awesome, I'm from L. A., think how tired the already-old Celtics are going to be. Perkins probably won't play, Rondo is hurting, get ready for Game 7, Boston. The latest had the greatest single game choke in championship history, but the Celts will do one better with the greatest 3-1 collapse in NBA finals history. This is going to make Bostians forget about Bill Buckner.

I hope alls well in Ray ALLEN house ..He has already gone threw hell due to his Dads actions ..He is the mans mans ,He never makes excuse's and is always polite and neatly dressed Ready to go. He is ours and we need to have his back

Isn't it ironic that this also happened to San Antonio on the way to LA for game 1 after a grueling series with the Hornets? Not to mention, Denver had it's team bus catch on fire on the way to the Staples Center in the first round.
Coincidence OR is Jerry West going James Bond on us?
Where is ML Carr when you need him?!?

THE FIX IS IN! KOBE BRYANT OFF THE TOP ROPE!

Any idea on the status of the Lakers and their flight?

Screw the Celtics, Screw Ray Ray, that faker Paulina, and mr. moving pick KG. Heck, EVERYTHING in Boston sucks!!!

Mr. Spears, what could this mean for the celtics energy and preparation? I remember earlier this postseason when something similar happened with the Spurs and it did not seem to help them. Will this be a problem going into game 6 or just a minor inconvinience?

Hopefully this setback dont have any effects on tomorrow night's game.

Mechanical issues with the plane? No matter. The Celts will be ready for Game 6 at home and I predict it will be a blow-out.

yeah, the city of Los Angeles teamed up with the FAA to strand the celtics at the airport. The real question is why the front office didn't pull their s*&t together this morning and get these guys (at least the 12 players) on one or two of the 100 commercial flights that could have gotten them to Boston earlier.

Hmmm--And the Spurs plane was delayed overnight after game 7 in New Orleans--they even had to spend the night on the plane when there were no available hotel rooms
Wonder who owns the charter company and if he's either a buddy of Buss or a fan of Nicholson's alleged acting
Have to wonder: rigged NBA rumors all around; 2 series in a row

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT L.A.!! Finally some solidarity. Airport coming through FTW! Boston forfeits game 6, lakrz win game 7 in the first ever NBA finals shutout, 114-0.

To those so called Billionaire Celts owners:
Please don't purchase and/or deploy second
hand or 3rd hand (unsafe) airplane for our beloved celtics
players.
What's matters with you guys the so called billionaire
owners?? Why you guys are so Cheap? so dangerously
Cheap??
What? your mansion is in foreclosure or what?
Human being is much more valuable than your
bottom line!!
Are you a fake Billionaire?

someone at logan needs to screw up the lakers flight arrival time - asy there is too much air traffic for them to land. i think that this was totally planned by the LAX mf's

oh and make sure their hotel is really lound all night long.so the lakers get no sleep!!!!

This is ridiculous. They are only leaving now. How the hell does this happen. How come Wyc didn't get something there right away. Now, they will land very late, get a little sleep, wake up jet lagged, do a walk through, and then play game 6 of the NBA finals. WTF!!!

everybody needs to chll........just chill

I hate to break it to you people, I wrk in the aviation business. Mechanicals happen ALL the time. So don't think for a second its some master plan from the city of LA. As for the recovery.. they should be just fine. A little extra sleep is allthey need anyway.

You sissies in Beantown need to suck it up! There is no conspiracy, just bad luck that will continue for the Celtics long after they've lost this series. Be happy you have the Patriots and the Red Sox. Your old basketball team is doomed!

@ "Lakers will win it ": A loss in the series would make us forget Bill Buckner? Do you know anything about Boston sports history? (Including our recent history ... I know you don't have the fanbase to support an NFL team out there, but *our* team played this game a few months ago, and, well ...)

Honestly, win or lose, we'll still be a great sports city with 3.5 good local franchises, and you'll still be a mediocre sports city with a good basketball team led by one of the biggest jerks in sports, a chronically-underperforming NL team, an AL team that we beat up on in the postseason, a hockey team named after a Disney movie, and no football team.

I still do not understand why entire teams fly on a single plane. Haven't we learned enough from previous losses of teams to not still be practicing this?

This just in, Doc Rivers and the Celts went into the 757, took off, and were relaxing eating their dinner. Rivers went to the cockpit and saw that Roger Murdock (Kareem Abdul Jabbar) was flying the plane. Rogers asked, "So how was your fish?"

sound fishy...i thought i heard weei said the refs were on the lakers plane too..hmmm

Good point, FD. That's two opponents of the Lakers with flight delay problems. Pretty fishy. You know everyone except Celtics fans want a game 7. I hope the Cs can get adequate rest, that Allen's kid is OK, and that Perk can play. Go Cs!

it is thundering outside.. praying for no lay-over... according to Rondo's blog they were suppose to leave at 10:30AM.. are we suppose to believe they can't get any plane out of LA until 5:30pm

We will win this game tommorrow and raise banner 17. Why -we are better and at home, that simple. Ray will score 40. Paul wil score 20+ KG 20+ The lakers dont win in our building. Period. Any two of the big 3 could be all out, I think we would still win. Posey, House, Casell, PJ, Big Baby, Tony Allen, Rondo, and Scal could beat them with any one member of the big three in the lineup tommorrow.

Well if the Lakers win it all this year...we could always scratch our heads and say:

"Why God? Why did you screw up every opponent that Lakers met in the playoffs?"

Is that 757 a Jetblue?

delay the plane all you want, theres no chance gang green is losing game 6 sionara LA its alllll overr

It's this very thing that makes this finals schedule so awful. This would be a non issue if they had more than one day to fly 6 hrs. The league needs to think of the players and not the network ratings when they set the schedule. Regardless of which teams are playing... to have a 2 day layover in the city without needing to travel and then a one day break on the times when they DO have to travel was just plain stupid and idiotic planning. I hope the guys can at least get some sleep on the plane. Combine the horrible travel schedule with the bogus 9pm start times and you have a recipe for disaster and teams simply being too tired to make the game fun to watch. I certainly hope we change this scheduling mess next year.

Didn't this happen to the Spurs too? Their plane was screwed up before they played the FAKERS......hmmmmmm

What a farce...You would think that the Lakers would want to win fair and square and then you get this plane delay...What about the Lakers plane?...Did they have a delay? THIS IS A CONSPIRACY...EVERYONE KNOWS THAT KOBE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED FOR A FOUL WHEN HE SUPPOSEDLY STOLE THE BALL FROM PAUL PIERCE WITH A WRAP AROUND REACH...call the foul Dick "i'm in on this too deep" Bavetta. He didn't even hit the ball...What a set up...I mean really...He got all of Pierce NO BALL...Call the foul...Better yet why doesn't the NBA just get Donaghy to call game six...I'm sure the Lakers would agree to that

The world knows that the Celtics are the better team and they will show the Lakers that on Tuesday...Good or Bad calls. GO CELTICS!!!

First things first. I hope and Pray that R.Allen’s family is good….. Now, do you Celtic fans really believe that the NBA or the Lakers can possibly affect an airline? Please tell me that you guys are not that stupid. Talk about desperate for a championship! Already making excuses in a series that you have a 3-2 lead with two games at home. NICE FANS. And you guys call me a Faker. I’ll be sure to take a different airline when I fly east to make sure that I don't miss my team the LAKERS kciking your @%$#@&^ in your building. Now if anyone in Boston has a brain, please come at me with something more than fixed games and conspiracy that include the airlines for crying out loud.

Its time Kobe has a Jordanesque game hopefully he goes off these last 2 games and we get the ring in BOSTON.

Go Lakers!

I live in Los Angeles, but I wish Garnett, Pierce, and Allen finally get their championship ring - they deserve it! The Lakers will have many more years to win a champsionship but this year belongs to the Celtics!!
I have nothing but admiration for Garnett and the rest of the Celtics - a humble group. The best player in this series is Garnett...he's amazing!! GO CELTICS!!!

You conspiracy theorists make me laugh. If there was a conspiracy for the Lakers to win the finals, it would be over already. Mechanical problems on airplanes happen all the time. Believe me, I have sat on enough runways for hours to know that.

Unbelievable! I always thought Boston sports fans were a little over the top. But this takes the cake. Already complaining about an aviation conspiracy and tip off hasn't even occurred. You must be really nervous about game 6 to be reaching for this kind of ridiculous excuse before you even need one! You should all just hope that both teams play their hearts out and we have at least one more opportunity to observe some of the finest basketball players competing on the greatest stage -- the NBA Finals. It is extraordinary. And it is a gift.

Hey ballyouup,

It was a private plane that the NBA leased out. Next time don't go assuming something. It makes an A@$ out of u.

@ballyouup: hit it right on the head, bro!

there's just so many messed up Cs fans than there are in LA

The C's know what needs to be done to finish this. They will get pumped by the home crowd and the Lakers best won't be enough.

BEAT LA!!!

"Pendejo Celtic Fans"... All know, they have gotten at least 75 % of the controversial calls go their way, thru-out the entire Series, and are blowing out a lot of smoke/nonsense to camouflage and in a feeblish attempt to cancel out all the gifts they have received, courtesy of the Refs, thus far in the Series.

LOL funny post Kevin C. I could totally see Jabbar in the cockpit with DOC.

Could have been real life story had Jabbar been on Celtics coaching staff. LOL I forgot he is one of the most hated Laker and how could he be on Celtics Payroll. Blasphemy!

Maybe it was not 757 it was a NOISY DC 8 that was retired in the 80's from MAGIC-BIRD era.

I have 2 questions:
- Why didn't Celtics management put the players on any AIRLINES First Class because they are all flying empty.
- Why did they have to wait till 11 am the next morning. I would have left right after the game at 10 AM pacific. Sleep on the plane with beds like in most 1st class. It would cost at most $4000 per passenger and could not be more than $40 K for the players. Coach's & rest of Celtics could fly in any class and any time. These are my thoroughbred horses. My feraris. Like handle with care written all over them. A little price you pay for the the utimate crown! I cannot believe it.

Well, maybe we might have to wait another 20 years for next title. The last 20 years in the cellar might have made the management spend like the thrifties.

Hope players overcome the rest and the bonehead planning of Management. If they rise above the flight fiasco and injuries, I think they will Undisputed Champions.

GO Celtics!

Boy celtics fans sure sound scared.

The refs, the plane, the "injuries"...any excuse you can come up with.

didn't the C's get 28 more ft's in game 2? Wasn't that THEIR chartered plane? haven't Kobe and Fisher been playing with significant injuries for the better part of the season?

Show some backbone and support your team for their tireless commitment to wining, not whining.

of course the broken plane is fishy and it's all sterns doing, the same thing happened to the spurs when they beat the hornets and were going to fly directly to l.a. to prepare for the w.c.f. and low and behold the plane is broken and they spend 7 hours in the broken plane waiting for another plane to show up. it's all fixed...by david stern...good luck c's

one last log on the fire...there were some really good replays of the game on sunday where bavetta was the ref at the bottom of the lane and when there was contact on a c's offensive play he swallowed his whistle but then when there was the exact same plays and players involved with another ref the whistle was blown.

david stern has truly screwed the pooch on this one.

LMAO,U CELTICS FANS ALREADY CRYING OUT LOUD,LOL NBA CONSPIRACY,SOMONE PAID OFFAIRLINES,AND U R TEAM IS GOING HOME FOR TWO GAMES,SHOWS HOW MUCH U BELIEVE IN THIS TEAM OF URS,WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS TONITE/GO KING(KOBEEEEEEEEEEEE)

HELLO,r u guys trying to find a way for stern and the NBA to end it tonite so u wouldnt mention fixed any more(corrupted celtics fans)

I think they were trying to clear some drunk Boston transplants from the runway and they somehow managed to call a foul on Lamar, WTF!

U guys are bunch of cry babies, these guys are playing basketball, NOT going to WAR or anything, they are PLAYING. Get a life..........

how can anyone like Kobe? At least we dont have a rapist on our team. Sounds a little fishy about the plane but that will probably make them play harder. Sorry lakers your plan backfired! GO CELTICS!!!!!

Talk about a blow out !!!
As Doc Rivers said; ' "We finally played all 4 quarters of a game'"
On his recently passed on father's birthday, too..

Shades of Red Aurbach in reverse...A cracked windshield on their flight back to play Game 6; himmn, I "wonder" what that was? 'Hmmmn"