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Avery Bradley Likely Done For Season

On the back of a horrific game six performance, Gary Washburn of the Globe piled on with more bad news: Avery Bradley is almost certainly done for the season. Washburn: A source close to Bradley told the Globe that it’s in the “high 90s” percentile that Bradley will be shut down and will perhaps need [...]

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3 days ago

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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3 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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4 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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12 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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12 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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Announcing the Winnahs: Stumbling On Wins

CelticsHub.com is happy to announce the winners of the Stumbling On Wins book contest. Since all of the winners happened to  have contacted me via email, I don’t feel comfortable publishing their full names. So I have decided to give them Celtic last names. At any rate, they have already been contacted and the books are in the mail. Without further adieu, the winners of David Berri and Martin Schmidt’s book Stumbling On Wins are:

Kevin “Garnett”
John “Havlicek”
Jay “Humphries”
Sam “Jones”

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest.  We here at CelticsHub.com really appreciate your time, attention, and fantastic- discussion- promoting commentary.  Please, keep up the good work and we will try to do the same.

Answers to the contest questions after the jump.

1) In Stumbling On Wins, there is a chapter entitled “Defending Isiah” which discusses Isiah Thomas terrible reign as GM of the Knicks.  In this chapter, a chart is provided which displays the actual wins produced by the Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford, Quentin Richardson, Eddy Curry, and Zach Randolph acquisitions.  For the 2007-2008, how many wins did each of these players collectively give the New York Knicks?

A) 14.5

B) 7.9

C) 6.9

D) 4.3

2)From 1989-2005, how many current Celtics led their draft class in wins produced?

A) 1

B) 2 Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce

C) 3

D) 4

3) What jersey number did Pete Maravich wear when he played for the Celtics?

A) 7

B) 44

C) 23

D) 91

4) Who was the tallest player on the 2002-2003 Celtics team?

A) Tony Battie

B) Bruno Sundov (7’2″)

C) Mark Blount

D) Mikki Moore

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