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ORLANDO, Fla. – They’re laughing at the Orlando Magic now, taunting them on the way out of Amway Arena and onto the NBA Finals. Between the end of Game 2 and the joyous bus ride to the Boston Celtics’ charter flight, it appeared that Paul Pierce(notes) gleefully punched four acidic words into his Twitter account: “Anybody got a broom?”

Somehow, this declaration found its way onto Pierce’s page. The keepers of his website insisted later this was the work of a hacker, but, nevertheless, those words were waiting for Dwight Howard(notes) on Tuesday night. It’s Pierce’s page, his responsibility. The brave public face of a privately shattered franchise, Howard plopped down on an interview podium and had Pierce’s alleged parting shot read back to him.

Howard scrunched his face and asked: You want me to respond to that? Everyone wanted Howard and these Magic to respond to something in this series. The Celtics came into these Eastern Conference finals, did the unthinkable and beat the Magic in back-to-back games and Howard had to summon everything within him to keep his composure.

“Pride,” he sniffed, “comes before a fall.”

And so does a mortified Vince Carter(notes) at the free-throw line with 31.9 seconds left, missing two shots with a face flushed with fear. So does a brainlocked J.J. Redick(notes) failing to call a timeout with 6.9 seconds left, dribbling a few steps down the floor and leaving the Magic without a chance to advance the ball after a timeout. The Magic would get a lousy, desperation 3-point heave at the buzzer and lose 95-92.

Yes, the Magic are delivering a Biblical meltdown in this series, the kind of humiliating, embarrassing loss that shakes a franchise to its core. Whoever was responsible for the tweet, it hardly mattered: Pierce had stared into the television cameras at game’s end and blurted to Boston fans: “We’re coming home to close it out.”

Pierce had 28 points for the Celtics, an offensive onslaught that’s come once the burden of guarding LeBron James(notes) had left his life. He’s reborn with the ball in his hands, with the Celtics’ crisp, precise passing delivering him shots in his sweet spots throughout the floor. As much as anything, Boston is bursting with bravado and backtalk, these old disagreeable Celtics rising from what had once felt like a lost season.

 

The Celtics had gone through the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games, beating them so badly that James is closer to leaving than staying and the coach, Mike Brown, is going to get fired. The Celtics are running roughshod through the Eastern Conference, torching everything in their wake. They’re belligerent and disagreeable, frustrating the Magic in so many ways.

Privately, the Celtics never believed these Magic could match up with them. They knew they could take away so much defensively, and they’ve done it. To think how demoralized the Magic must be to have Howard bust out for 30 points and still lose Game 2. Now, Orlando must withstand the torrent of criticism that’ll come between now and Game 3 on Saturday. Carter had been brought to Orlando in a trade with the New Jersey Nets for these moments, these late-game shots, and even the Celtics privately raised eyebrows over how discombobulated he looked on the line.

Everyone could see his two free throws never had a chance. Carter’s weak in the clutch, his legacy further cemented in Game 2. No one shrinks like him.

“Just don’t remind me,” Carter grumbled, when someone reminded him he was an 84 percent free-throw shooter on the season. Just don’t remind him? Oh, he’s going to be reminded every day this week.

These Celtics made every smart play in the final minutes of the game, forever playing patient, smart basketball. Rashard Lewis(notes) is the 8 million man who can’t get his shot in this series, whose disappearance is the reason the Magic have to sit and listen to Twitter taunts about getting swept.

“Everybody’s trying to be the hero,” Lewis said. “Everybody’s trying to make the tough play. Hey, I wanted to do the same thing, but I just couldn’t get my hands on the ball.” Lewis had five points, and his passivity makes him look too much like a willing victim. This is the problem for the Magic. They’ll sit around town for three days, take a beating and fly to Boston for a raucous Game 3 on Saturday.

Lewis and Carter aren’t cut of a cloth that should inspire confidence they can dig the Magic out of this trouble. Howard and Jameer Nelson(notes) can fight through the carnage of Games 1 and 2, but the rest of these Magic are probably too fragile. They’re dizzy now. They never did see the Celtics coming, and maybe no one did. Orlando had it too easy with eight straight playoff victories and it’s worked against them in the conference finals.

The Celtics walked into Amway Arena with a 2-by-4, and just started pounding on the Magic. The Magic are downright dazed, staggering and on the brink of a TKO. The Celtics jumped Orlando, and they’re halfway home to a possible meeting with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals.

Perhaps Pierce’s tweet had been hacked, but the message still spoke to his own words on the floor at game’s end: The Celtics are going home to sweep these Magic, pushing harder and harder on a revival that came suddenly, that felt like it was out of nowhere. Orlando had danced and preened its way over those paper Bobcats and Hawks, but everything changed in 48 hours in Florida.

Boston chopped down LeBron James, and now they’re going after Dwight Howard, too. It’s a mess for these Magic, and all they could do late Tuesday was sit back, seethe and know there isn’t a damn thing they could do to stop the snickering. Between now and a season lost, the Magic must make these Celtics respect them. So far, the Celtics’ private insistence is true: Orlando can’t beat them when they’re playing their best basketball. So far, it’s played out perfectly. If Pierce didn’t say it, then maybe he should’ve: Break out a broom for the sweep that no one saw coming, for a Celtics franchise full of so much bully and bravado that the rest of the NBA will have to go back to hating them again.

Pride comes before a fall, Dwight Howard declared on Tuesday night. Yes, it does. The Magic need to show some on Saturday night, need to make a last stand for a season that already feels like it’s going, going and gone.

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LOS ANGELES (AP)—Kobe Bryant(notes) dribbled toward the Lakers’ bench, luring Channing Frye(notes) and Jason Richardson(notes) along with him. Bryant leaned back and launched a feather-soft jumper over Phoenix’s double team, neatly beating the first-quarter buzzer.

That’s about when the Suns should have noted the bright yellow brace on Bryant’s right knee is the color of a caution sign.

Even with a balky knee and a litany of additional woes, Bryant still is among the most dangerous postseason scorers in NBA history—and he had no problem giving Los Angeles an early leg up in the Western Conference finals.

Bryant scored 40 points, Lamar Odom(notes) added 19 points and 19 rebounds, and the Lakers opened the series with ruthless offensive efficiency in a 128-107 victory on Monday night.

“Just being aggressive, playing my game,” Bryant said. “Got shots, took them. Got lanes to the basket, took them.”

Pau Gasol(notes) had 21 points for the top-seeded Lakers, who won their seventh straight playoff game and snapped the Suns’ six-game streak with a phenomenal second half, highlighted by Bryant’s 21-point third quarter. He barely stepped on the Lakers’ practice court during the past week to rest his ailing knee, ankle, finger and back—all minor impediments to a major talent.

“I practice so much during the season,” Bryant said. “In the offseason, I work a lot. To take a week off, I’m not going to lose all the work I put in prior to that.”

The defending NBA champions beat the third-seeded Suns at their own uptempo game when necessary, fluidly running the court to set up baskets for Bryant in his sixth straight 30-point game. Bryant then rested for most of the fourth quarter in the 11th 40-point game of his playoff career.

“They played great, one of the best games I’ve seen them play in the playoffs this season,” Suns coach Alvin Gentry said. “Kobe kind of controlled the whole game. I thought we could have withstood the game that he had … but when he’s making his jumper like that, there’s not a whole lot you can do about it.”

Game 2 is Wednesday night at Staples Center.

Amare Stoudemire scored 23 points and Steve Nash(notes) had 13 points and 13 assists for the Suns, who hadn’t lost since April 24. Robin Lopez(notes) started at center and scored 14 points in his playoff debut, but Phoenix couldn’t keep up with the champs’ height and 58-percent shooting in the Suns’ first conference finals appearance since 2006.

The Suns also ran into the same height problems faced by Utah and Oklahoma City earlier in the Lakers’ playoff run. Los Angeles committed just nine turnovers in Game 1—its third straight single-digit turnover game—while outrebounding the smaller Suns 42-34.

“They’re probably going to continue to be taller than us as the series goes on, so we’ve got to … make everything as tough as possible,” said Nash, whose injured eye didn’t bother him. “We played hard, but we didn’t make enough shots, and we had a few too many breakdowns.”

Both teams swept their second-round series to earn their third postseason date in five years, but the Lakers didn’t allow a week off to affect their remarkable execution. They scored easily and often, even with center Andrew Bynum(notes) managing just four points while playing shakily on his own sore knee.

After a 62-point first half for the Lakers, Bryant alternated jumpers and strong drives while Los Angeles pulled away, making a 13-2 run in the third quarter. His 13-for-23 shooting performance included three 3-pointers and 11 free throws with just one miss.

“Kobe carried a lot of the offense tonight, no doubt,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. “I will say he was going to shoulder the game. He was going to take it on. He’s been very optimistic through the whole week. He felt like he had the amount of rest and shooting he had to have. He was attentive and involved (in practice).”

The Suns sent Bryant, Odom and the Lakers home for the summer in 2006 and 2007, and Los Angeles’ veterans acknowledged a measure of revenge in their minds — as long as they’re healthy enough to do it.

Jackson revealed before the game that Bryant’s right knee was drained “a while ago,” moving it to the top of the injury list for last season’s NBA finals MVP. But Bryant showed no ill effects, and he even bounced back up after hitting his head on Richardson’s knee during a drive in the first quarter.

“He’s the best scorer in the league,” said Odom, who set a career playoff high for rebounds in his most assertive game of the current postseason. “Drives, fadeaways with his back to the basket, inside-outside, with his left hand. Time off is exactly what he needed.”

NOTES: Bryant last scored 40 points in the postseason during the opener of last year’s NBA finals against Orlando. … Lakers G Sasha Vujacic(notes) appeared in his first game of the postseason after missing the first two rounds with a sprained ankle. … Bryant and Grant Hill(notes) got technical fouls for arguing with officials 57 seconds apart in the third quarter. … Larry David watched the game from the same eight-seat courtside section where his fictional alter ego infamously tripped Shaquille O’Neal(notes) during a first-season episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

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