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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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Pierce: “I figure I’ll play another 3 to 4 years”

Doc and the Big Three did this long q-and-a with Jackie MacMullan for ESPN, which the Globe has helpfully transcribed. Once you get past the Fave Five stuff (which is sort of interesting, if you get riled up over Ray Allen not including any Celtics among his “Fave Five” shooters), there are some interesting nuggets:

• Doc’s statement about KG’s knee isn’t the most encouraging thing I’ve ever read: It got pretty bad in the games that we played so that was the alarm that went off.

• Paul Pierce expects to play three or four more seasons before calling it quits: Well my window for playing isn’t that wide open so, I figure I’ll play another 3-4 years, hopefully Kevin plays, and Ray plays another 3-4 years because if they leave before then, I think I’m going to retire (laughs).

• None of them liked the Celtics growing up, but Ray believes in the gospel of the Legend’s Jumpshot: I think at some point…he’s one of those players that regardless of the uniform that he had on just watching him shoot…everyone wanted to shoot like him…it seemed like he made shot after shot.

• KG with some really interesting remarks on the how the intensity of the Hawks crowd caught Boston by surprise in the first round: I wasn’t expecting Atlanta crowd to be like that last year, we came in like Phillips Arena is packed they sold out you know…I wouldn’t have expected that.

• The Celtics are obviously aware they have a turnover problem. Ray talked at length about being a perimeter target for Rondo so that Rajon doesn’t try and force anything: That’s the thing we’ve been talking about is us taking better care of the ball, and being more efficient on offense so, I just want (Rondo) to be better, and, (I’m) letting him know that I always got his back, and, I’ll always be an outlet for him so he doesn’t have to do anything that puts pressure on him, us and our offense.

• KG has converted Pierce into a hyperbaric chamber devotee, but Ray isn’t sold yet.

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