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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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Pregame Addendum: Doc Speaks About the Fight

So…there was a fight today.  Okay, everyone by now has heard the reports of a fight between Von Wafer and Delonte West.  This is obviously big enough news for Doc Rivers to comment on in tonight’s pregame interviews (straight from Brian Robb who is at the Garden):

Doc on the fight:

“There was a fight and that’s all you need to know.  So I’m going to leave it alone but you know, obviously I’m not real thrilled with it but it happened and we’ll handle it.”

On how it will affect Delonte West‘s reputation:

“We’ll just handle it.  I’m going to leave it at that.  It should stay inside the locker room.  It didn’t and that’s okay but we’re just going to leave it alone.”

On whether the blame for the altercation was shared equally between Von Wafer and Delonte West:

“I’m not going to say one way or the other.”

On the frequency of fracases:

“Oh they happen.  Some you’re fine with and some you’re not.  I’m not going to say one way or another on this one but let’s talk about the Knicks.  I would prefer that.”

Pressed with one more question, Doc commented on whether or not he thought it would have an overall affect on the team:

“It could. I doubt it.  I hope not.  You never know. I hope it does not; especially tonight.”

It’s hard to glean anything substantial from these pregame quotes.  Any comment would really be gross speculation.  So let’s do it!

With the reports and these pregame comments, it appears as though the team is stuck between a rock and hard place.  It’s widely assumed that West is really the antagonist in this whole situation but he’s also the far more useful player.  If Wafer were to be waived given this situation I would be really interested to see if he had any “wrongful firing” recourse.  Players get waived all the time so I doubt it but this kind of stuff makes me want to be a contract lawyer.

That’s it for now.  I cannot wait to see how this whole situation plays out.

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