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Paul Pierce’s Contract: Dispelling The Myths and Stating The Facts

The first domino to fall this offseason is Paul Pierce’s contract. Until Danny Ainge figures out what he’s doing there, little else matters. As we wait for this decision, we also must face the rest of the offseason, which means it is also rumor season. With that time of year, comes plenty of information floating [...]

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9 days ago

Final Grade: Avery Bradley (C+)

In his third year in the league, in which promising players often make brash leaps from benchwarmer to starter, from starter to star, Avery Bradley took a big step back. But his regression might be deceptive. When he returned to the Celtics’ lineup on January the 2nd after two in-season months recovering from offseason shoulder [...]

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9 days ago

Danny Ainge Expects Doc Rivers & Kevin Garnett To Return, Unsure About Paul Pierce

A long, challenging offseason awaits Danny Ainge this summer. Before he dives in head first, he joined Salk and Holley on WEEI-FM 93.7 to discuss the multitude of decisions facing him this offseason, as well as the progress of Rajon Rondo in his rehab from ACL surgery. A few of the notable highlights from the interview. Ainge [...]

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9 days ago

Suns Hire Away Celtics’ Assistant GM Ryan McDonough

In one way or another, there will be change this offseason in Boston. That process started in the past couple days, with the first piece moving out coming as a name most C’s fans might not be familiar with. Yet, it was Celtics’ assistant general manager Ryan McDonough, one of Danny Ainge’s top lieutenants, who [...]

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11 days ago

Doc Rivers Finishes 13th in Coach of the Year Voting

It was a tough season for the Boston Celtics, and that includes for head coach Doc Rivers. The long-time coach battled to find the right fit for a lot of new pieces that were both underperforming and/or failed to pick up his schemes on both ends of the floor. Naturally, an unfortunate plethora of injuries [...]

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12 days ago

Overconfident Answers To Offseason Questions (Part 1)

It seems like every offseason since 2010 we’ve been through this: a myriad of questions and concerns about the Celtics’ roster that usually involve the possibility of the core of the team being dismantled. As we head into the summer of 2013, we’ve got a whole batch of questions, many of which will be familiar.  [...]

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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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