"There's the part of Rasheed Wallace that's unapologetically transparent.

The frosty postgame beers sitting in his locker. The Flyers cap in the Bruins city. The unstrapped, unorthodox Air Force 1 sneakers he has worn for 11 straight years, unless you count those six minutes in the first half of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals when he went without them. (Why? "No story,'' Wallace said. "I just left them at home.'')

He is who he is."