According to Spike Lee, the Boston Celtics are more than unpopular with blacks—no "real black people" support them. In April, the filmmaker announced his desire for an Indiana Pacers victory over the Celtics in the NBA playoffs, reports Boston Globe columnist John Robinson. Lee's comments came as he accepted the Museum of Afro American History's National History Maker Award in Boston.

The remarks brought "scattered boos" from the crowd, writes Robinson. Lee, he goes on to say, noted that "the dissent could not have come from 'real black people' on the theory that the Celtics are somehow a racist organization unworthy of black support."

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