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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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This Will Probably Be Semih Erden’s Biggest Play of 2010-11

I don’t expect Semih Erden to contribute very much to the Celtics this season. He’s going to spend considerable time on the inactive list, and his chances of making the post-season active roster are basically nil. 

But you know what? This block to preserve Turkey’s insane win over Serbia in the FIBA world championship semi-finals will be remembered forever. We’ll never know if Serbia would have converted that last-gasp alley-oop from out of bounds—a play the Celtics know well—but we know this: you can’t ask for a better look inbounding the ball from the halfcourt sideline with 0.5 seconds left. And to block that shot without fouling? That’s a great play, one that will never be forgotten in Turkey. 

Fast forward to about the 4:30 mark of this video (thanks Jose 3030) to see Erden’s work, and hit the jump for some other famous last-second alley-oop tries.

Here’s the famous McHale-Dee Brown lob play from the first round of the 1993 playoffs, with Charlotte ahead 2-1 in the series and 104-103 with 0.4 for seconds left in Game 4. I was convinced in ’93 that Kendall Gill goal-tended Brown’s lay-in attempt. Was I right? Fast-forward to the 4:30 mark of the video for the play:

Many of you probably remember this crazy sequence from a random January game against the Heat last season:

And this last one has nothing to do with the Celtics; I just wish it had gone in.

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