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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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Ainge: KG Has Strained Calf, Will Miss Couple Weeks At Most

Rejoice Celtics fans. Danny Ainge has passed along the news while appearing on WEEI 850 in Boston that the team has received the results on Kevin Garnett’s MRI on his right leg. A few of the highlights from the injury report, with a full transcript on the way from Ainge’s interview:

  • It is a muscle strain in the calf
  • Garnett should be out a couple of weeks at the most
  • The injury has nothing to do with the knee

Once again, all of this news is fairly consistent with what we heard from Doc and other C’s personnel last night. Much more on this story as we get it, along with full analysis, but for now looks like the C’s dodged a huge bullet with this minor injury for their All-Star power forward. Here’s the rest of Ainge’s remarks complied from the interview, which you will be able to hear in full at weei.com

Ainge On KG:

“He may be out for a couple of weeks at the most.”

“My biggest fear is wearing Paul and Ray out.”

“It’s not just Rondo out, but Delonte out and we’ve had the injuries to Shaq and Jermaine and now they’re back and that’s going to help. It’s going to be hard to maintain the same pace that we’re playing at right now without Rajon and KG. Doc is going to have to be creative…. Like he did the other night using Marquis at the 1.

Ainge on Perk:

“We’re just taking it week by week. He’s not coming back within the next week or two. We’ll evaluate it in a couple of weeks. Our timetable has been the middle of February and we’ll keep it there until we know he’s healthy.”

Ainge on Rondo:

“Rajon is getting better. It was a pretty severe sprain as you could see on TV. He could play but he’s still in pain. He has pain on both sides of the ankle. We don’t want to get him back on the court until he can play hard.”

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