His Name Is Ray-Ray,

Ray-Ray. No matter what the standings are, no matter what kind of streak the Cavs or the Lakers put together, the Celtics are still the team to beat. Everyone who knows me knows I love basketball and there’s no greater basketball player than the original number 23, the always amazing MJ, the always imitated, never quite duplicated Air Jordan. But, the star of Jordan’s latest Jumpman commercial–Become Legendary–the one and only, Ray-Ray added to his legend last night.

Jordan’s Bobcats were in the Garden and you never sleep on a team led by Jordan and Larry Brown and for at least three of the four quarters in regulation the Cats had the Celts by the clover and luck had left the building. But as the time ran down in the fourth, who found a way to put the ball in the basket? Ray-Ray. And then with time running down in the first overtime who nailed the trey? Ray-Ray. And even after a sorry looking air ball that didn’t even come close to anything but air and had me wondering what could have happened to make Walter Ray put up such a shot, who came through with a spot-up three from the corner with only 2.1 left on the clock in overtime no. 2? His name is Ray-Ray, Ray-Ray. (Ya’ll know I love that song . . .).

Hey, but it’s not just me. Paul Pierce knows it too.

“His confidence is through the roof regardless if he’s missed two, three, or four hundred shots in a row, he always feels like the next one is going to go in,” Pierce said. “I’ll proclaim Ray the greatest shooter in the history of the NBA that I’ve ever seen.”

His name is Ray-Ray, Ray-Ray . . .

~ by quincee on 2 April 2009.