Ex-Lakers Great Details Mistreatment By Rabid Celtics Fans After Finals Loss

Bostonians were apparently pretty darn excited about their victory.

The same day he crashed into two parked cars while skipping out on a field sobriety test, longtime Los Angeles Lakers big man Lamar Odom became a news source for a far happier reason: he was an anecdote-heavy guest on former Clippers comrades Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles' excellent podcast Knuckleheads.

When the conversation turned to the dreaded Boston Celtics, against whom the Odom-era Lakers squared off twice in both the 2008 and 2010 NBA Finals, the 2011 Sixth Man of the Year revealed why he had so loathed Boston, beyond mere hardcourt issues.

As a reminder, this was the star-studded Celts club that boasted a "Big Three" of eventual Hall of Famers Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, plus eventual Lakers champ Rajon Rondo at point guard and eventual ESPN hot take artist Kendrick Perkins at center.

During their first season together, 2007-08, they posted a 66-16 record and battled their way through a chippy Eastern Conference to ultimately land in their first NBA Finals since 1987. On the other side of the bracket, they found the 57-25 Lakers, led by that season's MVP, Hall of Fame shooting guard Kobe Bryant, plus All-Star center Pau Gasol.

Boston blew out Los Angeles in a series-clinching 131-92 Game 6 massacre, after which, Celtics fans apparently got so rowdy they rocked the Lakers' team bus as it tried to escape TD Garden postgame.

"The first [NBA Finals] series is why I hate the Celtics,” Odom said. “‘Cause, "they beat us by like 35 [39] in Game 6. When you go to the Finals, you got your family on the bus – everybody on the bus and all that. They beat us by 35, these fans surrounded our bus and started shaking it.”

“They didn’t care [if Lakers players' families were on the team bus],” Odom added.

In that 2008 Finals series, Odom averaged 13.5 points, 9.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.0 blocks per night, while starting for the injured Andrew Bynum.

Odom and LA eventual enacted their revenge. After beating the Orlando Magic in the 2009 NBA Finals, they would knock out Boston in an ugly, foul-heavy seven-game endurance test of an NBA Finals the next season.

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