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Paul Pierce gives Celtics a game for the ages

By Bob Ryan

 |  Globe Columnist  

  May 02, 2012

When you play for the Boston Celtics , anything positive you do always bumps into history. Whatever you’ve just done, somebody is around to tell you that somebody else did it better in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, or even four years ago.

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