This is why the Heat don't need to rush Bosh back to the lineup, because the Celtics are mostly fighting their own advancing age, and fleeting championship mortality. In so many ways, the Heat had reduced the Celtics to fighting themselves, including a series of mostly needless technical fouls. Allen earned one for his mouth, Rondo for a shove, and Rivers, well, he yelled, "Come on, Eddie," to the fragile referee Ed Molloy.

"I don't know how long I've been in the league, but that has to rank as the worst I've ever had," Rivers said. "I would have loved to earn it."

When the league office gets done with Rivers on Wednesday, he'll have earned a fine for telling the truth about one of commissioner David Stern's referees.

This is why I boycott the NBA. Dock Rivers said it all and the yahoo writer of this article confirms: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--lebron-james-laughs-at-celtics--theatrics-during-heat-s-dominance-in-game-1.html