I could go into great detail about the Boston Celtics. Part of me would like to go into great detail about the Boston Celtics. But for the purpose of this space, just know that they lost to the Philadelphia 76ers last night and will now have to host a Game 7 in Boston on Saturday. The entire series has had a see-saw effect. The Celtics have won the odd numbered games. The Sixers have won the evens. In their losses, the Celtics have scored 81, 83, and 75 points. In their wins, they’ve scored 92, 107, 101. You don’t have to be Antoine Walker to figure out that the Celtics lose if they don’t shoot well. Last night they put up a 33% shooting performance. That’s not good.

In what has been one of the least exciting series between two archrivals that you could ever imagine, the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils played one of the sloppiest playoff games you could ever imagine (not involving the Boston Celtics).

Henrik Lundvist, arguably the best goalie in the NHL, stopped just 12 of 16 total shots. Devils goalie Martin Brodeur fared slightly better, allowing 3 goals on 28 shots, but even the future Hall-of-Famer, Brodeur, allowed sloppy goals.

The Devils won 5-3 (they added an empty net goal). They’ll have a chance to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals on Friday in Newark.

A day after firing their very good Head Coach and their not-very-good General Manager, word leaked that the Orlando Magic would be interviewing former Center Shaquille O’Neal for their vacant GM position.

This might not seem strange to you. Players often transition to front office positions (in fact, the Magic’s recently fired GM, Otis Smith, was a former NBA player). The absurdity here comes from O’Neal having absolutely no front office experience. To the best of my knowledge, he has no managerial experience.  In fact, he has no basketball experience other than playing it. Yet, the Orlando Magic believe that the _________________ (fill in the blank with your favorite Shaq nickname) is just the man to spearhead a head coaching search, prepare for a draft, make major personnel decisions, and oversee all of the daily activities of a professional sports franchise.

Consider this the Magic buying Dwight Howard a new Bugatti.

Oh, and my favorite Shaq nickname is Wilt Chamberneezy.

The sun rose. The grass grew. And the Nats failed to sweep a series. And the circle of life continued.

Washington was dominated for 8 innings last night by Phillies starter Cole Hamels, who allowed just 4 hits and surrendered no runs.  In a game that was anticipated to contain some fireworks, the only story was Hamels’ pitching (something he’s actually good at). The Nats lone run in the 4-1 loss came on a 9^th inning home run by Adam LaRoche.

The Nats will have today off before beginning a weekend series with the Atlanta Braves. The Nats currently hold a ½ game lead over the Braves.  Atlanta plays Cincinnati today.

Only one playoff game tonight. That’ll be the Heat and Pacers in Game 6 (MIA leads 3-2). Game time is 8 p.m. on ESPN.

In baseball, the spotlight game will be the Tigers @ Indians. Justin Verlander will return to the mound following a near no-hitter last Friday. Game time is 12:05, meaning no one will actually watch this game.