Willis Reed II Thrills Garden Crowd

All you had to know about last night Celtics-Former Celtics (Timberwolves) game happened in the last 16 seconds. The C's had just taken the lead on a sweet put-back by Kendrick Perkins of a Ray Allen floater and needed to stop Minnesota on one last play.

After frustrating the T-Wolves with two pass-ins (a time-out and a garbage foul), the Celtics locked down on former teammate Al Jefferson and the play was forced out to another former C, Sebastian Telfair.

At that point, in a moment reminiscent of the 1970 walk-on of Willis Reed, Garnett (returned from a stomach strain) dove at Telfair, stole the ball, and the game was over. Oh, and when Garnett initially came back in the game, the Celtics were down by 5 with 1:51 left.

Garnett then strutted across the parquet, thumbs in his shirt, displaying his pride in the Celtic uniform he now wears. As if to say, "Thank God I'm out of that other uni.".

By the way, the C's won 87-86. How's the trade working out for us? What do you think?