{"id":41021,"date":"2025-05-08T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/?p=41021"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:11:19","slug":"paul-pierce-begins-8-hour-walk-to-work-after-celtics-lose-to-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/paul-pierce-begins-8-hour-walk-to-work-after-celtics-lose-to-knicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Pierce Begins 8-Hour Walk To Work After Celtics Lose To Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/share.tmz.com\/watch\/paul-pierce-celtics-loss-05-08-2025\/\" width=\"560\" height=\"395\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paul Pierce really IS the &#8220;Truth&#8221; &#8212; &#8217;cause the Celtics legend kept his word and started an eight-hour trek to the Fox lot after guaranteeing his old team would beat the Knicks on Wednesday &#8230; and he&#8217;s documenting the whole journey.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce talked a big game prior to Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals &#8230; saying if the Cs didn&#8217;t even things up at 1-1, he&#8217;d use his legs as transportation to get to work the next day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Celtics lose Game two at home, I&#8217;m walking here tomorrow,&#8221; Pierce said on &#8220;Speak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fifteen miles! I&#8217;m walking here! In my robe, no shoes on, barefoot, if the Celtics lose tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He took it even further &#8230; saying he would put his house on the game &#8212; &#8217;cause he thought there was a better chance seeing a dinosaur outside the studio than New York taking home the win.<\/p>\n<p>Welp, the Celtics did not win &#8230; as Knicks forward Mikal Bridges blocked Jayson Tatum&#8217;s game-winning shot attempt, leaving Beantown stunned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pierce really IS the &#8220;Truth&#8221; &#8212; &#8217;cause the Celtics legend kept his word and started an eight-hour trek to the Fox lot after guaranteeing his old team would beat the Knicks on Wednesday &#8230; and he&#8217;s documenting the whole journey. Pierce talked a big game prior to Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[251,760,766,768,89,767,765],"class_list":["post-41021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wls-news","tag-251","tag-boston-celtics","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoff","tag-news","tag-paul-pierce","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/paul.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41023,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021\/revisions\/41023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}