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Terrence Williams Arrested on Gun Charges, Following Domestic Dispute

Terrence Williams was on the verge of coming back to the Boston Celtics next season after being one of the few bright spots of the Celtics’ postseason. Now, that journey is just an afterthought. According to a report from the Kent Reporter, a newspaper in Williams’ home state of Washington, the point guard was arrested yesterday [...]

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7 days ago

Kevin Garnett Will Avoid Foot Surgery

As we await Kevin Garnett’s decision about whether or not he will play a 7th season with the Boston Celtics, an important physical limitation has been avoided for the big man. After laboring through the last couple months of the season with a foot/ankle injury, which caused him to miss much of the regular season, [...]

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9 days ago

Danny Ainge is Waiting on Talking Future with Kevin Garnett

Yesterday was a good day in Boston. We found out Doc Rivers would definitely be coming back as a head coach, the Bruins won in overtime, and the Sox had a big comeback as well. As the first big decision of the Celtics offseason came in though, a brighter light begins to shine down now [...]

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10 days ago

Jeff Green’s 2012-13 Final Grade

Unless we’re discussing the eight or nine best players in the world, it’s impossible to separate a contract’s price from a player’s expectations, value, and overall performance. Jeff Green is the manifestation of this theory. In August he was guaranteed $36 million over four years, even though he didn’t play a single game during the [...]

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10 days ago

Painful Reminders (Part I): The Celtics Drafted JaJuan Johnson Instead of Jimmy Butler

On June 23rd, 2011, Brian Robb and I stood around a high top bar table in Tommy Doyle’s in Kendall Square.  Before us lay one of the biggest mounds of buffalo chicken wings I had ever endeavor to make disappear.  These 25 cent flappers- one of the few indulgences afforded to the participants of our [...]

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11 days ago

Chris Wilcox: 2012-13 Final Grade

There are a number of contextually-appropriate ways to craft this post. One would be to forgo words entirely, and represent Chris Wilcox’s entire season with a series of videos. That would involve one part of this: For every eight parts of this: Note the headline on that second clip. Someone was so amused/enraged by Wilcox’s [...]

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Brief Saturday Notebook: Wafer Talks, More Minimum Options Go

The sun is shining in New York City, and it’s not so hot that I want to die the minute I step out of my air conditioned apartment. You know what that means: Central Park beckons. 

So: some brief notes from around the league:

• Von Wafer talked to Slam’s Tzvi Twersky about the lead-up to Wafer signing a one-year minimum deal with Boston, and in Wafer’s telling, Doc Rivers made it very clear that the me-first crap that has flared up now and then with Wafer won’t fly in Boston:

“I just hope to help the team,” says the 25-year-old over the phone. “I’m all about the team first. I want to do anything I can to help make this a better team. Coach Rivers said, ‘If you’re not going to be a team player I don’t want you here.’ So I’m just gonna do my best to help make us a stronger group.”

Sounds good, Von. 

• Meanwhile, some other potential minimum-salary targets have found homes:

• Joey Graham, a player for whom I have a completely unreasonable affection, has signed a two-year, $2.5M deal with the Cavaliers, according to the Denver Post. Joey Graham is guaranteed to do at least one amazing thing and one astonishingly dumb thing every game. 

If the C’s can’t nab Rudy Fernandez, a guy like Graham—an athlete capable of playing either forward position—would be a suitable regular-season minutes-sopper. But he’s not a guy you’re going to trust in an important post-season game. 

• Rasho Nesterovic is taking his talents to the Greek powerhouse Olympiakos, which proves that Olympiakos management may not really know what they are doing. Look: Rasho’s a nice player, and he can still shoot 50 percent from the floor in limited minutes, but an already-disastrous Toronto defense gave up 9 more points per 100 possessions last season with Rasho on the floor. 

Rasho’s 34, and he may not have much to offer at this point. 

Still: The pool of big guys that might be available for the minimum is dwindling fast. I’m crossing my fingers that Lou Amundson somehow becomes available at that price, since no one seems to want him. Beyond Lou, it gets pretty ugly, especially since Shaq still think he’s worth more than the mid-level exception and Kwame Brown, another reported C’s target, wants more than the vet’s minimum, per Marc Stein

• In a story that is just too perfect, the Miami Heat have apparently fired their entire ticket sales staff, since there aren’t any  more tickets to sell, according to the Miami Herald. Dwyane Wade’s Team canned 30 folks in all, the Herald reports. 

Happy Saturday!

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