At least it looks like it. Excuse the virtual confetti – we took this right from the website for Paul Pierce’s karaoke bar, the Alley Cat. Paul celebrated his birthday there last week in conjunction with the grand opening.
Anyway, despite the picture above and persistant rumors of being a hard-partying malcontent, a lengthy profile in the Boston Herald says Pierce is embracing a leadership role this year, and rumors are just that: rumors.
“Yeah, it’s out there, but the people on the team who have approached me are going on hearsay,” Pierce, on the eve of his eighth NBA season, said Monday. “I know that’s a perception people have of me, but that’s crazy. Unless you’re with me every night, you don’t know.
“I go out in Boston once every blue moon. But I do go out once and a while, and when I do, some people feel they can call me a drunk. I’m still human, and I still like to go out and enjoy my life. But a lot of that stuff is hearsay. I’m not ever out there the way some people seem to think I am.”
As long as by “once every blue moon” he really means “every night until 5:30am”, we’ll buy into this. Not that we blame him – if we owned our own karaoke bar, we’d be there singing with Doc Rivers all the time, too. Reached for a quote regarding his sometimes shaky relationship with his head coach, Pierce grabbed a mic and had this to say:
You are the sunshine of my life, yeah,
That’s why I’ll always stay around,
You are the apple of my eye,
Forever you’ll stay in my heart.(background) love has joined us,
Love has joined us,
Let’s think sweet love.
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