Celtics captain shoots straight on election
Monday, November 3, 2008
Paul Pierce gracing the cover of Boston Common magazine.
Celtics [team stats] shooting guard Paul Pierce [stats] looks dapper on the cover of Boston Common magazine’s holiday issue and admits to the mag that he’s a fan of Democratic presidential wannabe Barack Obama.
“I’m going to vote for Obama. I think it would be great to see the first black president. I’m not voting for him only because of that, but because I feel the change that he could bring as a Democratic president would be more influential that what the Republicans bring,” Pierce said.
The Celtics star currently lives in Nevada and is fully aware of the importance of living in a swing state. He said he will “definitely fill out an absentee ballot.”
The champ takes his role-model status very seriously. “I say kids have to educate themselves on the reality of life. The chance of me becoming an NBA player was one in a million so I will never tell a kid what he can’t do,” he told the magazine.
At the same time, he encourages kids to have a plan to fall back on. “I tell them, if that’s what you want and you follow it hard enough, you have an opportunity to do it, but you have to have a Plan A, a Plan B and a Plan C.”
As for Pierce’s retirement plan, he sees himself staying in Boston. “My life is Boston. I feel like I might open up some restaurants, maybe a sports bar or a car dealership. None of the other greats have done that. They won here,” but none left a legacy, he said.
Courtesy of FGPR
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