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10 days ago

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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10 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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11 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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11 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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12 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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13 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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Fire up your “Celtics are dirty” posts

This is actually more even-handed then I thought it’d be, but NBA Fanhouse (which, as you might have heard, featured a post a month ago in which Sactown Royalty’s great blogger Tom Ziller called the Celtics “dirty”) has a post up suggesting Ray Allen should have been ejected for his elbow to Anderson Varejao’s nether-regions (video below–see the 1:11 mark), and saying the league may fine or suspend Ray. 

As I said in my recap, the elbow was indeed an unnecessary, sort of dirty move, but I don’t think Ray was aiming for Varejao’s groin. (CelticsBlog agrees, and gets the h/t for pointing me to the Fanhouse post). He’s never been that kind of player. I think he was frustrated with how the game was going and over-reacted to getting tangled up with Varejao. Did Varejao swing his right arm in way he knew would send Ray to the floor? I think so, but that doesn’t justify the elbow–at least not quite (though Varejao is an irritating, irritating player, and I mean that with a combination of fondness and hatred). 

Here’s the video. Judge for yourself. (Is it me, or just Varejao shout the “b” word at about :44 second mark?):

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