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Greg Stiemsma’s Contract To Become Fully Guaranteed

The C’s gave their 26-year-old rookie a vote of confidence before Tuesday’s game. By not waiving the seven-footer, Stiemsma’s contract will become fully guaranteed on Friday, allowing the shot blocker to breath a little bit and perhaps unpack some boxes for good in Beantown. Here’s Chris Forsberg of ESPN Boston with some reaction from Stiemsma and [...]

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2 days ago

5 Questions With Kemba Walker

I had a chance to talk with Bobcats rookie Kemba Walker prior to the Celtics game against Charlotte on Tuesday night.  Here is what the UConn star, who is averaging 12.3 points, 4 rebounds, and 3.6 assists per game had to say. 1. How much communication have you had with Michael Jordan this year? Walker: [...]

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2 days ago

I Am Awesome!

Yes. This is a “pat myself on the back” post because a) I’m a jackass and b) I predicted something correctly. Back on January 8th, I predicted that the next ten games will tell us everything we need to know about this Celtics’ team. If they struggled, it was time to blow it up. If [...]

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3 days ago

Pierce Wins Eastern Conference Player Of Week

One day before he’s scheduled to pass Larry Bird for second on the Celtics’ all-time scoring list, Paul Pierce won the Eastern Conference Player of the Week award. Pierce averaged 22 points, 6.3 assists and 5.8 rebounds in four Boston wins, playing point forward in Rajon Rondo’s absence. Pierce is only 9 points behind Bird [...]

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4 days ago

Garnett’s Wondrous 3-point Rant

Via ESPN Boston’s Chris Forsberg, who knows a great, playful rant when he hears one, here’s Kevin Garnett discussing his not-so-newfound aptitude for three-point shooting after the C’s took down the Grizzlies. “When I walk around the streets, y’all stop acting like y’all shocked that I can shoot 3’s. Everybody in Boston, everybody in the [...]

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4 days ago

5 Questions With O.J. Mayo

I talked with Memphis guard O.J. Mayo prior to the Celtics-Grizzlies, Super Bowl Sunday game at the Garden.  Here is what the 4th year man out of USC, who is averaging 12.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 2 assists per game had to say. 1. You started every game your first two years in the league, [...]

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Tidbits from ESPN C’s Preview: Rondo for Harris, Daniels at PG, Hudson’s Status

I’m not going to link to every season preview, simply because there are too many. But ESPN’s C’s training camp preview from Chris Sheridan  has some nice tidbits that add new details and round out what we already know about the team. The following are from his five observations from camp. I highly recommend the whole thing as well as his general team preview. He’s got some (small) details I haven’t seen elsewhere.

• On Rondo’s offs-season:

General manager Danny Ainge has acknowledged discussing possible Rondo trades with other teams early in the offseason (one proposal that was floated but never gained traction was a multiplayer deal that would have included Devin Harris of the New Jersey Nets)

Whoa….Devin Harris? I don’t think I had heard this before, but I could have missed  it during my European vacation/Internet detox. Harris would be an interesting building block to a fair Rondo trade.

• Rondo on his contract status:

“When you start thinking about contracts, you play selfishly — you might not think about it, but it’s in your mind to get the most money you can, and it becomes where it’s not a team effort. If we win, I think I’ll get more money, so my main focus is to win, don’t go outside my role — get those guys the ball and get out of the way.”

We like this quote very much.

• Marquis Daniels will be your back-up point guard:

“I think it’ll be easy,” Rivers said. “Marquis handles the ball all the time, Eddie will still handle the ball, but you could see with Eddie [in practice] today how easy it was with those two. We’ll have some growing pains early, but I think it’ll be an easy transition because Marquis has played point before.”

This will be an issue to watch, obviously.

• Lester Hudson’s contract is guaranteed to some degree. (The Globe has called it a one-year contract, though the exact terms are unclear).

The Celtics have 15 players with guaranteed contracts, and 16 players in camp. The odd man out is former lottery pick Michael Sweetney, who remains quite overweight…

Thanks for coming, Mike! There’s always a chance the team will cut Hudson to free up a roster spot, but it’ll cost them something, apparently.

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