I Have A Lakers Sweater I Used To Wear Everyday To School,’ Says Paul Pierce

(CBSLA) — Paul Pierce is a NBA legend known best for his long residency with the Boston Celtics. During those 15 seasons, he was a NBA All-Star multiple times over and drove the Celtics to a NBA Finals win in 2008 (over the Los Angeles Lakers), bringing home the arrangement MVP all the while. Pierce left Boston in 2013 and bobbed around to a couple of groups before resigning four years after the fact. 

Be that as it may, the surefire Hall of Famer really grew up a Lakers fan who detested the Celtics. Leaving Kansas, Pierce would have a lot of wanted to play in LA. He talks about this (thus considerably more) on Episode 20 of Showtime Basketball's video web recording All The Smoke With Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. 

Penetrate moved to Inglewood as a young person and went to Inglewood High School. In all honesty, he didn't make the school's varsity b-ball group at first. However, he proceeded to be the group's driving scorer and a McDonald's All-American. 

"I have a Lakers sweater I used to wear ordinarily to class," Pierce recalled. "It was a hoodie. Who couldn't be a Laker fan? I grew up directly down the road from the Forum, in that spot in Inglewood, watching Magic. I loathed the Celtics. You from LA, not to mention Inglewood, where the Forum is, obviously you're a Laker fan. How would you be able to not be? With the goal that's what makes it genuine unexpected when I was drafted to the Celtics. 

The Lakers and Celtics split their NBA Finals matchups during Pierce's time in Boston. The Lakers won 4-3 out of 2010, while the Celtics won 4-3 out of 2008. The Lakers piled on seven NBA Finals appearances during that time (winning five), while the Celtics oversaw just two. 

That specific time of Lakers significance can be credited, to a limited extent, to Kobe Bryant. The 18-time NBA All-Star and double cross Finals MVP as of late died in a shocking helicopter crash. Bryant and Pierce had a one of a kind relationship, as the previous Celtic saw it. 

"I played frantic against everyone, except him," said Pierce. "We in every case simply had an alternate sort of relationship. I think it was progressively out of regard as well. Every other person, I essentially couldn't think less about. It appeared that way, off the court. Just to have the chance to coordinate with him, know him on-and-off the court was extraordinary. It made me who I am, practically." 

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