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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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22 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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10 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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The Orlando Announcers Do Not Think Mikki Moore and Stephon Marbury are Very Good

This whole Boston-Orlando pseudo-rivalry picked up some steam this week with Orlando’s victory, Stan Van Gundy’s comments, some classic Red’s Army Orlando-bashing, etc. So my ears perked up when I flipped over to the Magic-Bucks game last night and heard the Orlando announcers disparaging our beloved, long-time C’s Mikki Moore and Stephon Marbury. 

About Mikki Moore: The announcers “wouldn’t feel good about Moore playing the P.J. Brown role.” Oh, and he fouls too much. They said Mikki’s fouls are unnecessary and silly “love taps.” This is the greatest injustice against a Celtic big man since someone said Travis Knight was overpaid.

About Steph: If the announcers were Boston, they wouldn’t feel good about Steph playing “the so-called back-up point guard role.” Note the “so-called.” 

I seldom pay attention to announcers unless they are really good, terrible or a famous ex-player such as Dominique in Atlanta. But I believe Orlando’s main TV crew is still David Steele and Matt “Matty” Guokas. Matty Guokas got into a brawl with Sam Jones during the ’67 Eastern Division Finals between Philly and Boston, so he’s obviously an anti-Celtic zealout who cannot be trusted. 

Tommy Heinsohn is far, far too classy for such insulting talk.

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