The U.S. Olympic basketball team is in Las Vegas getting ready for a run at the gold while the Boston Celtics are living it up. KG, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Sam Cassell and Rajon Rondo put their Sin City partying on pause to check out Manny Pacquiao vs. David Diaz. As you can hear in the video one of Pacman’s dreams was to meet Kevin Garnett, and the two share a mutual respect for one another.

There’s no telling when Youtube will pull this video down so enjoy it while you can. Slow motion and several angles of Manny Pacquiao’s 9th round knockout of David Diaz:

People were worried that Manny Pacquiao would lose some speed when he moved up to 135 lbs. I have some bad news for his competition.. He didn’t. Pacquiao looked just as fast and he says he’s even stronger. David Diaz’s face and the ring canvas agree.

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The Boston Celtic’s signing of Kevin Garnett was the biggest move of the NBA offseason. The three headed, championship hungry monster of Garnett, Pierce, and Allen is a nice base, but is it enough to get out of the East? You know the big three are gonna show up every night (barring injury), but what about the rest of the cast? Eddie House, James Posey, Scot Pollard, and Brian Scalibrine are the other vets on the team, unproven Rajon Rondo’s gonna be in charge of the offense, rookies Glen Davis, Jackie Manuel, and Brandon Wallace can’t be counted on yet, and, there always Doc.

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Too bad coach doesn’t handle the games like he does his practices. Doc’s seat is gonna get hot quick if the Celts get off to a slow start… Even more so because of Larry Brown circling the arena.

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