The Celtics are first in the East

Boston Celtics have won this morning the Detroit Pistons 88-79 and opens the series with victory and opposing them.

Kevin Garnett scored 26 points and grabbed 9 rebounds while Paul Pierce scoring 22. Both were the pillars on which cemented the ninth victory of the Celtics at home, all playoff games played there. The rest of Detroit had six days to sweep the Orlando Magic by 4.1 bill happened because more toned Boston Celtics left, scoring the first 8 points of the game.

"Rest is not an option," said Kevin Garnett. "We do not think that."

Rajon Rondo, the Celtics' rising star who has demonstrated all year that knows what you do, ran over Chauncy Billups with 11 points, 7 assists and 5 steals. Billups, who returned from an injury that ruled him out of the tennis the last two games against the Magic, said "we have not played a good game. We'll see what happens on Thursday. "

Tonight the Lakers play the first game of the Western Conference Finals they faced San Antonio Spurs.