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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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2 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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2 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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3 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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11 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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11 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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Training Camp Eve

Posted by on Sep 27, 2010 14 comments

Tomorrow starts Celtics training camp and fans of all shapes and sizes are starting to get excited.  Most people have kept an ear to the ground this offseason and are well aware of all the moves Danny Ainge has pulled off to make this team look the way it does.  A small select few out there completely missed the boat on all this news.  One such fan is my buddy Flynn.

Flynn reached such a level of despair after Game 7, he forgot what a basketball was this summer.

Now before you all go crazy and chase him out of Boston like he’s Frankenstein’s monster, there are a few things you have to know.  Flynn was a little busy this summer.  He ran a very successful summer camp in our hometown, he was taking extra courses to finish up his degree, and he became a certified EMT- which is not easy for a reason.

At any rate, with all the media buzz around the area today, even Flynn caught wind of everything that has happened this summer and decided to send me an email.  Oh, and did I mention he’s hilarious?

The following has been edited for your safety and sanity:

Dear Brendan,

First and for most, I would like to preface this email with acknowledging my utter and complete ignorance of the Celtics this offseason.

As I sit in the commuter cafeteria, diligently procrastinating doing my neuropsych homework, I said to myself, “hey big guy, why not check out them there Celtics lineup!?”

We have Jermaine O’Neal and Shaq? How in the sweet mother of God did that happen?

Somehow Delonte West has gotten back to Beantown and is threatening to [disrupt team chemistry] due to his incessant need to [do things that may disrupt team chemistry].

I see a Mr. Nate Robinson will be joining us again for some small (pun intended) time comedy and emotion always coupled well with Glen Davis’ aggressive salivating that makes Pavlov’s dog look tame.

Allen, Garnett and Pierce are still the cats [meow] clearly, and god damn Perk decided to sit the next few games out.  Why doesn’t he put his big boy pants on, follow the untraceable root of Wes Welker and just smoke HGH morning noon and night and get back to the court (probably untrue but I don’t know how else he did it).

Rookies: lets talk about them.  Avery Bradley, Semih Erden (apparently he’s international?) and Luke Harangody.  Who the [hell]?

As I sit here in awe of all the changes, my sincerest concern is to the whereabouts of a Mr. Scalabrine.  We officially have no white people unless the international guy is white, and I have a sneaky suspicion that he may be.

Figured I’d share my thoughts/ramblings with someone other then other voices in my head.

Flynn

As you can see, everyone is excited for this season.  The Celtics, on paper, are stacked and training camp starts tomorrow.  This means that we actually get to find out what this team is made of aside from how Shaq describes their pickup games.

Flynn’s letter proves three things: 1) he really hasn’t been paying attention this offseason; 2) he hasn’t read this blog at all; and 3) the NBA is back.

So, thanks Flynn. 

And for the record:  Brian Scalabrine is in training camp with the Chicago Bulls and Luke Harangody and Semih Erden are white- not that I see color.

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