The Selling of the Green

Guest Post by the Sports Hayes

You think the New England Patriots are the most hated team in sports? When Bob Kravitz and Gregg Doyel of the Indy Star started their smear campaign against the Patriots following New England's 45-7 dismantling of the Indianapolis Colts, they kept their venom to social media and their local newspapers. Well, Harvey Araton and Filip Bondy took their dislike of the Boston Celtics one step further.

Harvey and Filip both worked for the New York Times. In 1992 they published "The Selling of the Green: The Financial Rise and Moral Decline of the Boston Celtics." Basically these two New York Timers wrote a book about how mean and nasty the Celtics were. The book has…