Just eight points had separated the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers in their first three bouts of the 2010-11 regular season. Entering Tuesday night's tilt, with the playoff picture slowly coming into focus, whispers swirled around what lined up as a potential preview for the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. Would the up-and-down Celtics, still struggling to put their new pieces together since the midseason trade of Kendrick Perkins, be ripe for an upset by the upstart Sixers in a seven-game series?
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.