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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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3 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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3 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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4 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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12 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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12 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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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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