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6 days ago

3-on-3: Will Doc Rivers Return Next Season?

With the Doc Rivers coaching watch heating up to a fever pitch in the past few days with a countless number of credible reports, we decided it’s time to get our crew back together and address the speculation. 1. On a scale of 1-10, how confident are you Doc Rivers will coach the Celtics next [...]

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9 days ago

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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22 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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24 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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25 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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26 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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Wednesday Links

  • Five Things We Learned: The Age Of Rondo Is Upon Us: For most of the 2008-09 season, people have been struggling to define just how fast Rajon Rondo actually is. It is known, for example, that there is no one in the NBA who can stay in front of him on a consistent basis. It was suggested, by Rondo himself, that he could beat Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt in the 100 meters. It’s taken 82 games, five more in the playoffs and four overtime periods before we could definitively answer the question, but here it is: Rajon Rondo is fast enough to save a season in 94 seconds. [WEEI.com]
  • Paul Pierce picks his spot: For three quarters, he had been largely absent – or as absent as someone can be with 11 points in an NBA playoff game. Paul Pierce knew his season was slipping away. The Celtics were well down the road to a 3-2 deficit to the Chicago Bulls and the very real chance their year would end before they played another game in the Garden. [Boston Herald]
  • Big stage ‘fun’ place to be for rookie Derrick Rose: The basketball world may have been stunned by Derrick Rose’s record-tying effort in the opening game of the Celtics-Bulls series, but don’t count veteran guard Lindsey Hunter among the shocked. As someone who has played alongside Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Kobe Bryant and Chauncey Billups in a 15-year NBA career, Hunter knows a thing or two about backcourt excellence. He feels the sky is the limit for the recently named Rookie of the Year. [Boston Herald]
  • Ray Allen runs afoul of calls: “I was extremely upset, I was disappointed, I thought all game the whistles were bad, but I didn’t want to be that isolated guy who was on the sideline pouting. We had to win a game, and those were the cards we were dealt.” [Boston Herald]
  • Flagrant cries: You all have friends and relatives scattered across the country, imbedded in the very cities in which Our Teams have annihilated the competition en route to capturing championship . . . after championship . . . after championship. And now it’s Chicago’s turn to hate Boston. [Boston Herald]
  • Truth: Paul Pierce is still the Truth when it matters most. [CelticsBlog]

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