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15 hours ago

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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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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