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Paul Pierce’s Contract: Dispelling The Myths and Stating The Facts

The first domino to fall this offseason is Paul Pierce’s contract. Until Danny Ainge figures out what he’s doing there, little else matters. As we wait for this decision, we also must face the rest of the offseason, which means it is also rumor season. With that time of year, comes plenty of information floating [...]

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9 days ago

Final Grade: Avery Bradley (C+)

In his third year in the league, in which promising players often make brash leaps from benchwarmer to starter, from starter to star, Avery Bradley took a big step back. But his regression might be deceptive. When he returned to the Celtics’ lineup on January the 2nd after two in-season months recovering from offseason shoulder [...]

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10 days ago

Danny Ainge Expects Doc Rivers & Kevin Garnett To Return, Unsure About Paul Pierce

A long, challenging offseason awaits Danny Ainge this summer. Before he dives in head first, he joined Salk and Holley on WEEI-FM 93.7 to discuss the multitude of decisions facing him this offseason, as well as the progress of Rajon Rondo in his rehab from ACL surgery. A few of the notable highlights from the interview. Ainge [...]

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10 days ago

Suns Hire Away Celtics’ Assistant GM Ryan McDonough

In one way or another, there will be change this offseason in Boston. That process started in the past couple days, with the first piece moving out coming as a name most C’s fans might not be familiar with. Yet, it was Celtics’ assistant general manager Ryan McDonough, one of Danny Ainge’s top lieutenants, who [...]

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11 days ago

Doc Rivers Finishes 13th in Coach of the Year Voting

It was a tough season for the Boston Celtics, and that includes for head coach Doc Rivers. The long-time coach battled to find the right fit for a lot of new pieces that were both underperforming and/or failed to pick up his schemes on both ends of the floor. Naturally, an unfortunate plethora of injuries [...]

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12 days ago

Overconfident Answers To Offseason Questions (Part 1)

It seems like every offseason since 2010 we’ve been through this: a myriad of questions and concerns about the Celtics’ roster that usually involve the possibility of the core of the team being dismantled. As we head into the summer of 2013, we’ve got a whole batch of questions, many of which will be familiar.  [...]

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Revisiting ’93 Again: Was it goal-tending?

Last week, CelticsHub gave a brief tribute to Alonzo Mourning on the evening the Heat retired his number. For us, the most memorable Zo moment was his last-second go-ahead jumper to give Charlotte a 3-1 series win over Boston in the first round of the ’93 playoffs.

Zo’s jumper went through the net with 0.4 seconds left, leaving the C’s to try a desperation inbounds alley-oop from Kevin McHale to Dee Brown. The play worked, and Dee Brown had a decent chance to catch the ball and lay it in, only Kendall Gill knocked it away. Sixteen years later, I was convinced that Gill goal-tended the ball, and I called on readers to find a clip of the play. One reader delivered. Here it is; McHale’s inbounds pass starts at the 4:30 mark.

My first reaction is: How in the world did NBC not have a better camera angle for this? My second reaction is: perhaps I’ve been wrong all of these years? I honestly cannot tell from the clip exactly what happened on this play. Does Gill touch the ball? Is it ever on the rim or in the cylinder? 

Dare I even ask whether there is a better clip out there somewhere? Because, to me, that replay is inconclusive. Damn. 

It is fun to see the Celtics go berzerk and sprint, as a unit, over to referee Bob Delaney in protest as Delaney just stands there silently until a security guard with a mullet walks him off the court. Great screen by X-Man to free up Dee Brown for the cut to the hoop, and McHale’s pass was even better than I’d remembered. The analyst (who was it? can anyone tell?) criticizes Chris Ford before the play for having McHale make the pass, since McHale is a tall guy who could leap and tap the ball into the basket. But Ford rightly had confidence that McHale could throw the pass better than anyone on the team. Great stuff.

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