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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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2 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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3 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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11 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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A Blowout In Numbers

Some tidbits before we put Game 3 to bed:

• The Cavaliers 59.5 percent mark from the field is the highest shooting percentage a team has recorded  in a game against Boston since the KG/Ray Allen trades, according to Basketball-Reference. 

Opponents have cracked 55 percent just seven times in the regular season and once in the playoffs since KG and Ray arrived at the beginning of the ’07-08 season. 

• This was only the fifth time a team has scored 120 or more points against Boston since the KG/Ray trades, and just the third time a team has pulled it off in regulation, according to BR. It happened twice in the regular season and twice in the playoffs, but both of the prior post-season games were overtime games in the Chicago series last season. (One was a double overtime game, and one went to triple OT). 

• Ray Allen has played in 85 playoff games. He has scored 7 or fewer points in six of those 85 games. (He scored 7 points on Friday). All six have come in Boston, and three have come against the Cavaliers, including the only playoff game in Ray’s career in which he scored zero points, according to BR. 

• The Celtics grabbed 30 rebounds in Game 3. They recorded 30 or fewer rebounds in just four games this season.

• The Celtics turned the ball over just 7 times in Game 3, according to box scores at both ESPN and Yahoo!. How rare is it for Boston to lose when they cough the ball up so few times?

Since the KG/Ray trades, the C’s are 12-1 in the regular season and 3-1 in the post-season (so 15-2 combined) when they turn the ball over 8 times or fewer, according to Basketball-Reference. (Note: Those records are from games before Friday night’s debacle). 

What about when the C’s turn it over 10 or fewer times? Before last night, they were 26-5  in the regular season and a not-too-impressive 8-5 in the playoffs, according to BR. 

So, yeah. Game 4 is on Sunday.

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