A year ago this wouldn't have seemed possible. A year ago, LeBron James was busy leading the upstart Cleveland Cavaliers through the Eastern Conference and into the NBA Finals. Paul Pierce and the rest of the Boston Celtics were mere bottom feeders, their future tied to the Greg Oden-Kevin Durant Sweepstakes, and Pierce, with his NBA mortality sneaking up and his championship hopes fading, could not see himself finishing his career in the green-and-white. Not if he were to contend for an NBA Championship. All of that changed in the whirlwind summer of 2007, and today Pierce found himself squaring off with James in a winner-take-all Game 7, the winner advancing to play the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals.
...I had made an early decision to go to Davidson, and I was really planning on going to school there. But my high school coach, who probably had a lot more insight than I did at that time, made me keep my mind open and visit other schools. I eventually changed my mind, and decided that I wanted to go to the University of North Carolina. That's how I ended up going there...
Dominique Wilkins Dino Radja Reggie Lewis Robert Parish
A year ago this wouldn't have seemed possible. A year ago, LeBron James was busy leading the upstart Cleveland Cavaliers through the Eastern Conference and into the NBA Finals. Paul Pierce and the rest of the Boston Celtics were mere bottom feeders, their future tied to the Greg Oden-Kevin Durant Sweepstakes, and Pierce, with his NBA mortality sneaking up and his championship hopes fading, could not see himself finishing his career in the green-and-white. Not if he were to contend for an NBA Championship. All of that changed in the whirlwind summer of 2007, and today Pierce found himself squaring off with James in a winner-take-all Game 7, the winner advancing to play the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals. 
...I had made an early decision to go to Davidson, and I was really planning on going to school there. But my high school coach, who probably had a lot more insight than I did at that time, made me keep my mind open and visit other schools. I eventually changed my mind, and decided that I wanted to go to the University of North Carolina. That's how I ended up going there...
