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Rondo Replacing Johnson on All-Star Team

The Herald got it right from Rondo’s agent. According to his agent, Bill Duffy, the Celtics point guard has been named to the Eastern Conference All-star roster, presumably to replace Joe Johnson, the injured Atlanta Hawks guard. This would be Rondo’s third all-star appearance. Nice birthday present for RR, who probably should have been selected [...]

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3 days ago

Comments Deleting?

We apologize if your comments are being deleted (provided that they are not offensive). We are looking into why this is happening. We also want to apologize for the lack of a game thread for last night’s game.  We had a premonition that the Celtics would play that poorly and thought if we pretended the [...]

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7 days ago

5 Questions With Greg Monroe

I talked with Detroit star forward Greg Monroe prior to the Celtics-Pistons game on Wednesday night.  Here is what the 2nd year big man out of Georgetown, who is averaging 16.4 points, 9.7 rebounds, 2.5 assists per game had to say. 1. Just your 2nd year in the league, but playing so well, were you disappointed [...]

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8 days ago

Call for Responses: 5-on-5

Readers! Last week’s responses to the 5-on-5 questions were really, really great. We had way more qualified answers than we were able to use. So we’re going to keep doing it! FOREVER. Here are this week’s questions: 1. Are you concerned about Rondo’s media boycott this week? 2. The trade deadline is less than a [...]

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11 days ago

5 Questions With Ronnie Brewer

I talked with Chicago starting guard Ronnie Brewer prior to the Celtics-Bulls game on Sunday.  Here is what the 6th year man out of Arkansas who is averaging 7.6 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 2.1 assists had to say. 1. You guys have a lot of the same players back from last year’s team which was [...]

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13 days ago

5 Questions With Josh McRoberts

I talked to Los Angeles back up big man Josh McRoberts prior to the Celtics-Lakers game Thursday night at the Garden.  Here is what the former Duke Blue Devil, who is averaging 2.9 points and 3.8 rebounds in his first year in LA, had to say. 1. How have you guys been able to deal [...]

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Making Their Own History: Game 1 Open Thread

I love Game 1, because the speculation stops. No more lists of the Five Keys to the Finals. No more wondering how often Kobe will guard Rajon Rondo, or how the Garnett-Gasol match-up looks two years later, or how the Celtics will defend Bryant. 

We get to see it all, starting tonight. Much of it will unfold as we suspect, but there will be surprises—a wrinkle in defensive positioning, a match-up that gets more time than we’d expect, a role player who triples his scoring average. 

A guy I’m watching tonight: Kendrick Perkins. Reading Kevin Arnovitz’s TrueHoop post today about re-watching the ’08 Finals reminded me how openly the Lakers helped off of Perkins in that series. Things are different with Andrew Bynum healthy, but if the Lakers stick someone other than Bynum on Perk thinking they can give that person a rest for a possession or two, Perk can go into his back-down game. If the Lakers help off of him too aggressively in the screen/roll, Perk has improved his ability to score on the move enough to punish the Lakers. 

He’s not going to score 20. But he could score 12. And that could be huge. 

Consider this your Game 1 open thread. After three days of build-up, tell us what you’re seeing—what’s going well, what strategic move surprises you, what player is giving his team an unexpected boost. 

And, as always: Go Celtics.

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