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9 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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10 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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10 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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11 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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UCONN Backcourt?

This morning I woke up, made coffee, turned on SportCenter and saw Marcus Williams had 17 assists yesterday in a summer league game.  Really?

The former UCONN product rode the bench last year on Golden State before being released in March, something to give GMs concern.  Especially coupled with the laptop stealing scandal he was involved in while in college.

However, let’s look at his recent body of work.  Everyone knows Don Nelson doesn’t play young players even if he should (ie: Anthony Randolph and Marco Belinelli) so one could attribute that to his lack of PT at GS.  After getting cutting, instead of taking the ‘Sweetney route’ and trying to eat his way back into the league, he immediately started playing professionally in Puerto Rico where he averaged 15.0 points per game, 5.3 rebounds and 9.3 assists, great numbers for any level of competition.  Seventeen assists in a summer league game also tells me that he’s playing unselfish even with unpolished players, he’s matured to the point where he’s not only looking for his own shot, and he knows what to do to get him noticed and back into the league.

The great thing about summer league is that free agents are just that, regardless of what summer league they are playing for.  That means the Celtics are free to pilfer any of these guys whose rights aren’t owned by the team their playing for.  Is Marcus Williams on the Celtics radar as a cheap back up point guard option should they not extend Gabe Pruitt?  Who knows.  But after yesterday’s performance, he’s on mine.

Should he be? Is he on yours?

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