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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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If you fear Chicago, well, send your sarcastic thank-yous to Mike Brown

Well, what I considered the most unlikely scenario of the night just happened: the Bulls played horribly at home, losing to Toronto, and Philly pulled out an overtime win at Cleveland. The Cavs played a lineup of Pavlovic-Szczerbiak-Gibson-Jackson-and a rotating cast of scrubs in the fifth spot for the final three quarters of the game, and Philly still barely won.

Upshot: The Celtics will face Chicago in the first round. Orlando gets Philly. I live-blogged the game as part of a TrueHoop live blog bonanza tonight over at ESPN.com, and there was a sense among both the other bloggers and the commenters that Chicago is the far harder match-up for Boston here.

I agree. The Bulls are young, athletic and had won 14 of 15 at home before tanking losing tonight against a suddenly rejuvenated Raptors team. Salmons does a decent job defending Pierce, and Rose’s quickness with the ball will give Rondo as many problems as Rondo’s quickness will give Rose. Plus, two of their big guys (Noah and Thomas) are quite athletic, and their other big (Miller) is a smart passer and shooter who always seems to play well against Boston.

And, there’s the far simpler fact that Philly looks terrible right now. 

But it’s Chicago after all. We’ll have much more on this series in the next couple of days here.

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