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Rondo Replacing Johnson on All-Star Team

The Herald got it right from Rondo’s agent. According to his agent, Bill Duffy, the Celtics point guard has been named to the Eastern Conference All-star roster, presumably to replace Joe Johnson, the injured Atlanta Hawks guard. This would be Rondo’s third all-star appearance. Nice birthday present for RR, who probably should have been selected [...]

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3 days ago

Comments Deleting?

We apologize if your comments are being deleted (provided that they are not offensive). We are looking into why this is happening. We also want to apologize for the lack of a game thread for last night’s game.  We had a premonition that the Celtics would play that poorly and thought if we pretended the [...]

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7 days ago

5 Questions With Greg Monroe

I talked with Detroit star forward Greg Monroe prior to the Celtics-Pistons game on Wednesday night.  Here is what the 2nd year big man out of Georgetown, who is averaging 16.4 points, 9.7 rebounds, 2.5 assists per game had to say. 1. Just your 2nd year in the league, but playing so well, were you disappointed [...]

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8 days ago

Call for Responses: 5-on-5

Readers! Last week’s responses to the 5-on-5 questions were really, really great. We had way more qualified answers than we were able to use. So we’re going to keep doing it! FOREVER. Here are this week’s questions: 1. Are you concerned about Rondo’s media boycott this week? 2. The trade deadline is less than a [...]

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11 days ago

5 Questions With Ronnie Brewer

I talked with Chicago starting guard Ronnie Brewer prior to the Celtics-Bulls game on Sunday.  Here is what the 6th year man out of Arkansas who is averaging 7.6 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 2.1 assists had to say. 1. You guys have a lot of the same players back from last year’s team which was [...]

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13 days ago

5 Questions With Josh McRoberts

I talked to Los Angeles back up big man Josh McRoberts prior to the Celtics-Lakers game Thursday night at the Garden.  Here is what the former Duke Blue Devil, who is averaging 2.9 points and 3.8 rebounds in his first year in LA, had to say. 1. How have you guys been able to deal [...]

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Moore and Marbury doing better, House on fire, Rondo can pass

• Both the Globe and WEEI’s blog focus today on Mikki Moore and Stephon Marbury settling in with the C’s after both played their best games with Boston over the weekend. Here’s the Captain on Mikki in the Globe“He’s improving each and every game. He’s learning where to be defensively and getting to the spots offensively.”

Why? Doc says it’s because he’s no longer being overly deferential to the stars: “Mikki’s starting to understand that when he’s open he should shoot the ball, because he can really shoot the ball,” said coach Doc Rivers. “Honestly, I thought he didn’t think he was worthy. When you’re on the floor, it’s an adjustment when you’re next to Paul and Ray [Allen], Kevin [Garnett]. You’re open and you think, ‘There’s no way I should shoot the ball.’ And what we’re trying to get him to do . . . that’s what you do, shoot the ball.”

Doc also thinks Steph should be shooting more, but Marbury feels good about being a distributor (and I feel good about that): “I feel like I’m turning the corner on the pick and roll and trying to get guys open shots.”

We’ll see if this continues…

• The Herald’s got a nice story on Eddie House, who started yesterday’s game 1-of-6 before heating up to finish with 16 points. As you undoubtedly know, Eddie is shooting an insane 52 percent from three over his last 35 games. At halftime, Eddie went right to the video monitor to find out what was wrong with his shot: “You know, it’s funny,” said coach Doc Rivers. “Shooters know their game, and in the first half he rushed every shot. You know, quick shots. He was open, but he rushed them. And at halftime I walk in and he’s looking at all the shots on video and the first thing he said was, ‘Yeah.’ ”

Great stuff, Eddie. Keep it up. 

• Finally, Mike Gorman mentioned last night that Rajon Rondo’s assist total so far is the fifth-highest single-season total in C’s history. CelticsBlog helpfully supplies us with the full list: 

1. Bob Cousy  715 (1959-60)
2. Sherman Douglas 683 (1993-94)
3. Tiny Archibald  671 (1979-80)
4. Bob Cousy  642 (1955-56)
5. Rajon Rondo 618 (2008-2009)
5. Tiny Archibald  618 (1980-81)

Someday Rondo is going to break Cousy’s record.

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