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Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell Upset About Boston Celtics Celebrating Title In Miami

Shandel Richardson

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The most bizarre aspect of the Boston Celtics winning the NBA championship was probably their place to celebrate.

The day after winning the 18th championship in franchise history the Celtics flew to Miami to party. Some questioned why they would leave their fans while former Miami-based rapper Luther Campbell wondered why it was even allowed.

Campbell is also known as "Uncle Luke" from his days with 2 Live Crew.


"Please tell me this can't be," Campbell said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "What garbage ass, soft ass, groupie ass promoter has invited them down here to celebrate? They just gonna rub it in our face?"

Campbell wasn't the only one to express disappointment with it. Miami radio host Jeff Fox of Remix Sports Media had his issues as well.


"The Boston Celtics won the NBA championship [Monday night]," Fox said on his YouTube channel. "We don't like it and too celebrate, those [expletive] left the city of Boston, left their own fans to come to Miam Wade County. Who the [expletive] authorized this? Who? Who?"

The uproar is mostly because the Heat and Celtics have become one of the biggest rivalries in the league. They played in the postseason four of the last five years, with the Celtics eliminating the Heat this season. In 2011 and 2012, the LeBron James and Dwyane Wade-led teams knocked off Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and the Celtics.


"We don't like you. We don't like you," Fox said. "This is Wade County. This is Miami Heat country. Get the [expletive] out. We hate Boston. We hate Tom Brady. We hate Larry Bird. We hate Bill Belichick. We hate Boston Market ... Anything Boston, we don't like you."

Shandel Richardson is the publisher of Inside The Heat. He can be reached at shandelrich@gmail.com

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Shandel Richardson
SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here