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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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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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Celtics 102, Grizz 92

I missed my first game of the season last night. The New York wing of Celtics Hub is in Philadelphia for the weekend visiting a friend about to head off to Afghanistan to do some freelance writing. He was kind enough humor my Celtics fanaticism by finding a South Philly sports bar (Chickie’s & Pete’s) that has an NBA League Pass subscription. 

We found two seats at the bar with a good viewing angle of four televisions–two showing the Sixers-Bulls game (the last game at the old Spectrum), one showing Villanova-Louisville in the Big East tournament and the other an ACC tourney game. I asked the bartender if he could switch the ACC over to the Celtics-Grizz. His response:

“You’re in the wrong place, man. This is Philly. You’re not getting the [flippin'] Celtics game on in here.”

He went on to explain that some mysterious television overlords controlled what each of the bar’s two dozen or so screens were showing, and that the staff actually had no input into such decisions. But even if they did, he said, it was unlikely that anyone would agree to have a Celtics game broadcast inside Chickie’s & Pete’s. 

You have to respect that, I guess. 

So I missed what will likely go down as Leon Powe’s career-high scoring game, the return of Rondo and Marbury’s first productive game with the Celtics. Nice work, boys. See you Sunday.

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