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Rajon Rondo Reads Mean Tweets About Himself on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Despite all the rehab, Rajon Rondo is finding ways to keep busy this offseason. Just a couple weeks after appearing on E!’s Fashion Police show, the point guard was back on TV last night, in a fun segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live called Mean Tweets. In it, celebrities, or in this case NBA players, read [...]

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21 days ago

Why Are People So Eager To Trade Paul Pierce?

The whispers around Paul Pierce’s future with the Celtics continue to surface in the fourth week of Boston’s offseason. Unconfirmed report after unconfirmed report has circled in, stating anything from Pierce’s house being on the market, to the team being “likely” to buy him out. Locally, plenty of Celtics fans seem resigned to the fact [...]

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23 days ago

Terrence Williams Tells His Side of the Story on Arrest

It was a tough start to the offseason last week for Terrence Williams. After standing out as one of the bright spots on the Celtics roster late last season, he was taken into custody last week with the disturbing allegation that he pulled a gun during a domestic dispute with his son’s mother and her [...]

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24 days ago

Video: Rajon Rondo on E! Fashion Police

What has Rajon Rondo been up to this offseason beyond rehabbing his ACL injury? Rubbing elbows with Joan Rivers, that’s what. Just one summer after spending some time showing off his fashion sense in an internship with GQ, Rondo went one-on-one with Rivers on E’s Fashion Police, since well he has some time on his [...]

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25 days ago

Jason Terry’s 2012-13 Final Grade

  Acquiring any player, whether it’s via trade, free agency, or the draft, comes with an air of uncertainty. The NBA has no guaranteed covenant and all sales are final, no matter how talented, proven, or productive the player may have been in year’s past. But these memories—especially recent ones—often clouds the judgment of a [...]

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26 days ago

Why Is Doc Rivers Waiting to Confirm His Return to the Celtics Next Season? A Theory on The Wait

The waiting is the hardest part. At least that’s what the Celtics’ brass must feel like about their coveted head coach. A week after Danny Ainge confirmed to The Boston Globe that Doc Rivers would be returning to the Celtics’ bench next season, we’re still waiting for a direct word from the head coach himself. [...]

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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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