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Highlight: Rondo Leads The Break

I love this decision-making from Rajon Rondo. While leading the break, you can see him eyeballing Ray Allen, who runs the wing and spots up on the arc. The Sixers have a 1-2 disadvantage but are mostly concerned about Allen’s three balls, which allows Mickael Pietrus to make an unmolested baseline cut behind the defense. [...]

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21 hours ago

Celtics-Sixers Game 5 Tips off at 7pm

A note to all you local C’s fans out there that may be attending the game tonight at TD Garden. The game will start just after 7pm and will be broadcast nationally on TNT. However, unlike most TNT regular season games during the season, the tip will not come 15-20 minutes after the scheduled start [...]

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9 days ago

(Video) Rajon Rondo Continues To Dominate In Postgame Interview

Rajon Rondo is a tremendous player, but he tends to have a little bit of an issue scoring the ball late in games. I won’t go as far as saying he is scared, but he does pass up shots and defer to teammates in crunch-time….well a lot. Last night though may have been his coming [...]

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9 days ago

Video: Full Kevin Garnett Reaction After Game 1

Garnett followed up his season-best effort against Atlanta in Game 6 with a new season-high in points and another sensational double-double, as well 60 percent shooting (12-of-20) from the field. Over his past two contests, Garnett is averaging 28.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, two steals and four blocks a game. After the game, KG was candid [...]

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9 days ago

The Enemies List: Philadelphia, Part II

Before every playoff series this season, we’re doing some rundowns on the opposing roster for each team. Now that the Hawks have been dispensed with, we’re onto the Sixers. Here’s Part II. Players are listed in alphabetical order. Andre Iguodala: There are five guys in the league who have a claim on the title of [...]

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10 days ago

NBA: Hawks Should Have Had Free Throw on Last-Second Foul

Mike Fratello had it right: the NBA announced today that Al Horford should have been given a free throw on Marquis Daniels’s off-ball foul at the end of Thursday’s game. At the time, ref Eric Lewis ruled that Daniels’s foul had occurred after the throw-in, making him probably the only person in the arena who [...]

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March Madness in Ohio: Celts vs. Cavs

While the NCAA basketball landscape endures its annual bubble-popping Tournament for the next two weeks, it’s hard to think the Celtics won’t be experiencing that sort of pressure in terms of home court advantage in the playoffs.

The season-long quest could possibly end tonight.

Whether that’s a tribute to the predictability of the Associate, or the relatively less amount of parody than the college game: there’s no denying that NBA Titles are built in March — three months ahead of the actual time that confetti flies from the rafters.

For the Celtics, it’s D-Day. As in Do-or-Die-in-the-helms-of-an-opposing-arena-come-playoff-time Day.

At some points, doesn’t it feel like this whole home court stuff overtakes everything? The NBA has become so predictable that Opening Night felt like the beginning of a yearlong head-to-head battle against the Cavs.

At some points, it felt like the out-of-town scoreboard was more important in the Garden than the actual games.

And now, assuming that the NBA’s predictability continues through the last 20 games – and who has reason to believe otherwise? – it’s very possible that tonight’s game could determine much, much more than just a tally in the win or loss column.

A loss would virtually grant King James the right to Game 7 in Quicken Loans Arena, essentially burying the Celtics from any tiebreaker scenario at the end of the season for Playoff home court advantage.

Traditionally, the University of Dayton in Ohio has hosted the NCAA Tournament’s play-in game, better recognized as the kick-off to the Madness.

Tonight in Ohio, it’s more madness debut: Cavs vs. Celtics, the game that gets its own special pregame video intro.

Harsh shift in bodies

It’s like if a guy not only won a free plasma TV, but then sold it on eBay for double its value.

That’s how the Cavs feel by not only picking up Joe Smith in time for tonight’s game, but also facing a KG-less Celtics squad.

Garnett faces another week recovering from a strained right knee.

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