You may be unaware of this because, A) the game just ended and it’s midnight and some people have to get up and go to work in the morning, or, B) you care for the NBA about as much as you care about the different types of buzkashi, but the Celtics just stomped the Lakers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, 131-92.

That makes it championship No. 17 for the dynasty-in-cycles Boston franchise. The clinching game, in Boston, was a joke by the middle of the third quarter. Head coach Doc Rivers took Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen out of the game for good with four minutes left, and it was a bench party the rest of the way, with the stars hugging and gleefully taking in the last stage of action as the subs continued to make scrubs of L.A., on this day at least.

Kobe Bryant looked humbled.

And then something happened that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. Pierce, who was later named the MVP of the Finals, dumped a Gatorade cooler over his coach’s head, splashing red liquid all over the court (and Rivers’ suave suit). I’ve seen that in plenty of other sports, most notably football, but never indoors on a floor that still had about 30 seconds of game-time to go. Rivers took it in stride. He never won a championship as a player. Nothing was going to spoil this moment as a coach.

For the rest of us, over the past year, we’ve watched the Red Sox win the World Series, the Patriots go undefeated in the NFL’s regular season (only to fall in the Super Bowl — thanks, Giants), and the Celtics continue the New England region’s dominance in three of our nation’s four major professional sports. What’s up Bruins?

In the spirit of Kevin Millar, time to “cowboy up” O’s … Ravens … any other pro teams across the country but the Yankees. Oh yeah. He said that as a Red Sock.

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