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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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Garnett Has Calf Injury

Kevin Garnett left tonight’s game against the Detroit Pistons with a calf injury.

UPDATE #2:

CSNNE reports that it is a calf injury, not a knee injury.

UPDATE:

Obviously, the injury, however severe it might turn out to be, will have hit Celtics’ fans like a gut punch tonight, as it bore resemblance to the injury that sidelined Garnett for the end of the 2009 season, and affected Garnett all of last season. Though his recovery has been remarkable this year, with the KG of 2010-11 playing like the KG of 2007-08, everyone has reason to be concerned. That noted, there is no confirmation that tonight’s injury is related to that one.

Garnett did have X-Rays after the injury took place tonight and they came back negative. This is good. There is no fracture.

However, the real litmus test will be the MRI back in Boston on Thursday to determine if anything is torn within the knee – assuming that is where the injury is situated. As of right now, that’s unconfirmed. The worst case scenario would be that Garnett is out for the season, or possibly longer, a bridge which we’ll jump off, only if we come to it.

In the ray of hope department, Celtics’ radio man Sean Grande tweeted the following during the third quarter of tonight’s game:

@SeanGrandePBP: No fracture, MRI Thu for KG. Players indicating its not as bad as it looked.

-Ryan DeGama
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We have seen this song and dance before.  Brian Robb’s expert opinion complete guess is that KG will be out “a couple of months.”  Eeesh. The videos of the injury are below.

-Brendan Jackson

Garnett’s injury in real time:

Garnett’s Injury from the Baseline Cam:

KG Walking to the locker room:

KG Walking in the locker room:

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