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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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Thibodeau Update: Chicago Looks Likely

The Herald reported last night that the Bulls are close to offering their head coaching job to Thibodeau, and Marc Stein follows up at ESPN by saying the Hornets have moved on to Portland assistant Monty Williams. Sources say a single tear slowly flowed down the left cheek of New Orleans GM Jeff Bower’s face as he de-friended Thibodeau on Facebook and deleted all of Thibs’ e-mails. *

*Sources may not have said this.

Stein also reports that Thibodeau is “no longer interested in the Hornets job,” and cites a Chicago Tribune report that the Bulls may make Thibodeau their offer by the end of the weekend. 

There will be those that criticize Thibodeau for stringing the Hornets along as he waited for better offers to materialize. And I get that, considering that Bower was (as Adrian Wojnarowski at Yahoo! put it in criticizing Thibodeau’s handling of the situation) the first NBA GM to give Thibodeau a shot at the top chair.

But this is business, and Thibodeau wanted the Bulls job. And it’s a better job, with a superior young nucleus, cap space galore this off-season (or next, if things don’t work out this time) and a foundation of players that can play outstanding defense. Not Derrick Rose, but you know what I mean.

What a testament to Thibodeau’s work in Boston.

He’s about to get one of the league’s prime head-coaching jobs at a moment in which every front office coaching move is framed around the question, “Does this guy appeal to Wade/Bosh/LeBron?” 

Bulls fans: You are getting a guy with prime pedigree. Winning is never guaranteed in the NBA. Coaching success isn’t, either. But Thibodeau’s record suggests he is ready.

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