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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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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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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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Winter Blahs: Rockets 108 Celtics 102

ESPN Box Score • Red94 • The Dream Shake

Forget the late-game machinations that got the C’s to within 4 points of the Rockets in the final minute. Boston earned tonight’s loss with an ugly, mostly lifeless effort against a seriously undermanned Houston team, dropping the Celtics to 4-3 without Kevin Garnett and edging observers closer to not-really-that-rational-but-worrying-anyway concerns the C’s current winter blahs will morph into a full-on winter depression.

With few exceptions, the Celtics gave the impression they’d rather be anywhere but on a basketball court tonight. Marquis Daniels (7-8 shooting) and Ray Allen (8-13) lead the Celtics with 19 points apiece, but the Boston offense didn’t take advantage of enough favorable mismatches and the Boston defense allowed the Rockets to shoot 52.7% from the field and go 10-20 from the three-point-arc.

Rajon Rondo took most of the night off, suggesting the busy nine-day stretch since his return has worn him down (or he just decided to put it on cruise control). Glen Davis played passable defense on Luis Scola (5-13 on the night) but again lead the team in shots, many of them of the groan-inducing variety. That’s not all on him, but it’s indicative of tonight’s effort – just not enough energy and not enough smarts.

By the time the C’s started to pull it together, the Rockets had taken the reins of this one and weren’t willing to let go. They scrapped hard early, made tougher shots late and walk out of Boston with what they deserve: a win.

That’s it for now. Come back later on for a closer look.

Just don’t expect to like what you see.

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