The below is from an article in yesterday's NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/health/23mind.html) regarding recent research about touching and communication (note the discussion of the Celtics and Garnett).  Does this perhaps give Hollinger a new statistic to chart?  Should we be asking will Nate Robinson touch as much as Eddie House?  I hope this touches you all as it did me...

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Promoting this excellent FanPost for obvious reasons.  Well done.  -Jeff

I am a 41 year old man.  I have a wife and two children (ages 7 months and 4 years).  I am a transactional lawyer and I am a partner in a large law firm.  In short, I am what 18 year-old-me would have thought as someone serious; someone I would have assumed has put aside childish things: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”

However, I find myself constantly thinking about the Celtics upcoming season and seemingly being unable to wait for it to start.  I am once again checking CelticsBlog 10 to 12 times a day (as I did in the dark days, before the Garnett trade, during the long season of 2006-07).  I find I have the patience of my four year old, who, when told the car ride will be ten more minutes, earnestly and urgently replies “Ten minutes is too long!”

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