Boston Celtics vs LA Lakers Game 7 NBA Finals 2010 Picks & Predictions: The 2010 NBA championship has all come down to this: a decisive Game 7 between the sports betting odds underdog (3-3) Boston Celtics [+7] and the defending NBA champion (3-3) Los Angeles Lakers [-7] at the STAPLES Center in LA-LA Land, California. Game 7 of the NBA Finals 2010 Picks & Predictions is scheduled to tipoff tonight at 9 PM ET (8 PM CT/6 PM PT) and it will all be broadcasted live on ABC Sports.
“It's historic, especially when you talk about these teams and what they stand for, the pride,” said LA 
Lakers forward Lamar Odom hours before tipoff. “This is what you envision when you're a kid in your backyard. Counting down, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…”
For the Lakers, it all comes down to winning the franchise’s 16th NBA title, which would put the Purple and Gold just one more NBA championship behind their hated, longtime rivals, Boston Celtics who currently have 17 titles.
“I guess it's going to be another decade that people look back and see the formation of this rivalry again,” said Lakers head coach Phil Jackson, who will be playing for his 11th ring as an NBA head coach. “The '90s was missed, and the '70s was missed, but the '60s and the '80s were big decades. It seems to skip a decade, doesn't it?”
This championship is also significant to a guy named Kobe Bryant, who would move to a tie with Lakers’ great Magic Johnson with five NBA titles, and just one shy of Michael Jordan’s 6 rings which he captured with the Chicago Bulls. The OVER/UNDER for this, Boston Celtics vs LA Lakers Game 7 NBA Finals 2010 Picks & Predictions has been set at a combined total of 186 points scored.
“It's got nothing to do with me,” stated Bryant, who will likely win his second consecutive NBA Finals MVP trophy with a victory tonight in Game 7. “(When) I look back, years from now, or even when I was a kid, (if) you'd talk about being in this situation, I'd be really excited. But when I'm in the moment right now, I've got to play. I've got to focus on that. I can't focus on the hype about it.”
For the green team, the challenge now becomes picking themselves up after a demoralizing defeat in Game 6. Another guy trying to add to his legacy as a player is Paul Pierce, who would join an elite list of players to have won multiple championships as a Celtic. To accomplish this, Boston will have to win on the road against the defending champs.
“I just love the pressure,” Pierce stated. “I love the fact that I get to play against the Los Angeles Lakers in a Game 7 on the road. I love the fact that if I don't win multiple championships that I probably won't be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtic history that have done it before. That type of stuff motivates me. That's what the challenge is for me, every time I put on this Celtic uniform.”
“I think about how bad and how much it would hurt if we don't come out as winners,” Lakers center Pau Gasol said. “I keep that thought in my mind sometimes, just to understand that I have to do everything possible out there to help my team in any way I can. You want to leave everything you have out there, and compete as hard as you've ever competed.”
“It's all-out,” Kevin Garnett added. “It's for the marbles, it's for everything, all-out. You save nothing. You leave nothing.”
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