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6 days ago

3-on-3: Will Doc Rivers Return Next Season?

With the Doc Rivers coaching watch heating up to a fever pitch in the past few days with a countless number of credible reports, we decided it’s time to get our crew back together and address the speculation. 1. On a scale of 1-10, how confident are you Doc Rivers will coach the Celtics next [...]

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9 days ago

Rajon Rondo Reads Mean Tweets About Himself on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Despite all the rehab, Rajon Rondo is finding ways to keep busy this offseason. Just a couple weeks after appearing on E!’s Fashion Police show, the point guard was back on TV last night, in a fun segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live called Mean Tweets. In it, celebrities, or in this case NBA players, read [...]

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22 days ago

Why Are People So Eager To Trade Paul Pierce?

The whispers around Paul Pierce’s future with the Celtics continue to surface in the fourth week of Boston’s offseason. Unconfirmed report after unconfirmed report has circled in, stating anything from Pierce’s house being on the market, to the team being “likely” to buy him out. Locally, plenty of Celtics fans seem resigned to the fact [...]

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24 days ago

Terrence Williams Tells His Side of the Story on Arrest

It was a tough start to the offseason last week for Terrence Williams. After standing out as one of the bright spots on the Celtics roster late last season, he was taken into custody last week with the disturbing allegation that he pulled a gun during a domestic dispute with his son’s mother and her [...]

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25 days ago

Video: Rajon Rondo on E! Fashion Police

What has Rajon Rondo been up to this offseason beyond rehabbing his ACL injury? Rubbing elbows with Joan Rivers, that’s what. Just one summer after spending some time showing off his fashion sense in an internship with GQ, Rondo went one-on-one with Rivers on E’s Fashion Police, since well he has some time on his [...]

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26 days ago

Jason Terry’s 2012-13 Final Grade

  Acquiring any player, whether it’s via trade, free agency, or the draft, comes with an air of uncertainty. The NBA has no guaranteed covenant and all sales are final, no matter how talented, proven, or productive the player may have been in year’s past. But these memories—especially recent ones—often clouds the judgment of a [...]

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Let the Ridiculous Mourning Officially Begin

The Bulls have signed Brian Scalabrine to a non-guaranteed deal, according to Yahoo! and a number of other sources. 

The news is irrelevant in basketball terms, but you can expect a segment of Celtics fans to use phrases like “end of an era” and “a sad day for the franchise” in reacting to it. And the era, in theory, isn’t really any more “over” tonight than it was yesterday. This is a make-good contract with the Bulls—a training camp invite—and Scal could be back on the market in a month. Also: Shamsports lists the deals for both Von Wafer and Delonte West as only partially guaranteed, meaning the C’s could open up a roster spot without eating the full value of either contract.

But if this is good-bye, we can say this: Brian Scalabrine’s legacy is more interesting than that of your average 12th man.  He’ll be remembered for:

• parlaying a season in which averaged 6.3 points per game into a 5-year (!), $15 million contract with the Celtics; 

• inspiring all sorts of fun T-shirts;

• an amazing post-concussion head band;

• spurring uncomfortable discussions about whether Boston fans still need a white player—any white player—to cheer for;

• filling in admirably during the 2009 playoffs after KG’s season-ending injury—and after suffering multiple concussions during the regular season; 

• inspiring hate mail to Tom Haberstroh after Haberstroh named Scal one of the five worst rotation players in Celtics history in a piece for ESPN.com;

• becoming the most strangely loved Boston athlete since….?

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