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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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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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Aldridge: Sheed To Retire

This just in from David Aldridge at NBA.com:

The Boston Celtics’ expected rebuilding began Thursday when veteran forward Rasheed Wallace officially decided to retire after 15 NBA seasons, a league source said.

He adds this:

He left more than $12 million on the table by opting to retire.

I’ve been batting around emails with Larry Coon, the salary cap expert who created the online Bible of salary cap information, to try and figure out the exact salary cap implications of Sheed’s retirement. It’s not a simple thing, and we don’t have a complete answer yet. The team may still have to negotiate a buyout of Wallace’s contract, in which case whatever they pay Sheed would be included in this year’s salary cap.

Coon’s entry on retired players includes this line:

Any money paid to a player is included in team salary, even if the player is no longer playing or has retired.

There appears to be some precedent for a player’s contract staying on a team’s books if he retires in the middle of the contract but does not file official retirement papers with the league. If Sheed does file papers, it would appear from my reading of the cap rules and past league precedent that his contract—minus a buyout figure, if there is one—would be wiped off the C’s books completely.

If anyone has any further insight, by all means let me know. I hope to have a more formal answer soon.

In any case, good-bye, Sheed. It was as crazy a year as we all expected.

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