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Game 6 Will Be Wednesday Night at 8pm on ESPN

After the Thunder finished up their series by routinely dismantling the Lakers last night to send them packing in five games, a time has been announced for the C’s-Sixers Game 6 on Wednesday night. It will tipoff shortly after 8pm on ESPN. Looking ahead in the postseason, if the C’s do win Game 6, and [...]

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2 days ago

Highlight: Rondo Leads The Break

I love this decision-making from Rajon Rondo. While leading the break, you can see him eyeballing Ray Allen, who runs the wing and spots up on the arc. The Sixers have a 1-2 disadvantage but are mostly concerned about Allen’s three balls, which allows Mickael Pietrus to make an unmolested baseline cut behind the defense. [...]

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2 days ago

Celtics-Sixers Game 5 Tips off at 7pm

A note to all you local C’s fans out there that may be attending the game tonight at TD Garden. The game will start just after 7pm and will be broadcast nationally on TNT. However, unlike most TNT regular season games during the season, the tip will not come 15-20 minutes after the scheduled start [...]

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10 days ago

(Video) Rajon Rondo Continues To Dominate In Postgame Interview

Rajon Rondo is a tremendous player, but he tends to have a little bit of an issue scoring the ball late in games. I won’t go as far as saying he is scared, but he does pass up shots and defer to teammates in crunch-time….well a lot. Last night though may have been his coming [...]

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11 days ago

Video: Full Kevin Garnett Reaction After Game 1

Garnett followed up his season-best effort against Atlanta in Game 6 with a new season-high in points and another sensational double-double, as well 60 percent shooting (12-of-20) from the field. Over his past two contests, Garnett is averaging 28.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, two steals and four blocks a game. After the game, KG was candid [...]

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11 days ago

The Enemies List: Philadelphia, Part II

Before every playoff series this season, we’re doing some rundowns on the opposing roster for each team. Now that the Hawks have been dispensed with, we’re onto the Sixers. Here’s Part II. Players are listed in alphabetical order. Andre Iguodala: There are five guys in the league who have a claim on the title of [...]

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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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