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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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Schedule Watching: Heat or Cavs on Opening Night???

People really, really care about the NBA schedule. Fans—and some coaches and players—parse the schedule for signs of their team’s place in the league hierarchy. Fans obsessed with getting “disrespected” raise hell when their team draws a ho-hum season-opening game or gets left off the Christmas schedule.

I find this entire thing amusing. Witness: Plugged-in reporters coming out with conflicting, anonymously-sourced stories (or Tweets) about which team Boston will face on opening night, as if this is an actual story of any importance—and as if the actual schedule (the whole thing!) won’t be released soon enough.

Brian Windhorst of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer tweeted about eight hours ago that the Celtics would open the season on Oct. 27 against the Cavs, meaning the league would give the prime opening Eastern Conference game the night before to the Heat and Magic. OMG!!! Disrespect to Boston!!

But wait!

The Globe and the Miami Herald reported a couple of hours later that league sources—anonymous sources for a story about the NBA schedule!!!—are claiming the C’s will open the season against the Heat. And all is right with the world! Boston gets its proper respect! As for Orlando—I hope nobody tells Stan Van Gundy.

Seriously: The opening night schedule will be released tonight at 7 p.m. on NBA TV, with the full schedule coming later this week. I can hold my suspense until then. Respect comes from success in the playoffs and running a professional organization, not from TV scheduling.

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