Logo
The Ticker
14 hours ago

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 [...]

2
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 [...]

2
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 [...]

3
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 [...]

0
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 [...]

0
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 [...]

2
Browse Archives by:

Ken Mauer Gets A Bit Liberal With The Technicials

As we dig ourselves out of nearly two feet of snow in Boston today (the game against the Kings tonight is on by the way, we’ll have full preview this afternoon from Hayes), there were plenty of notable events going on last night in the NBA. You had the Cavs losing by 55 and scoring just 57 points as the Lakers took out some frustration on them.

Then there was Lebron’s tweet about the loss:

Crazy. Karma is a b****.. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!

I’ll let you guys handle the comments on that one. However, the showstopper of the night for me was a little awkwardness in Minnesota, where Ken Mauer T’d up the Timberwolves FIVE TIMES in just 10 seconds of action. Don’t believe me? Check out the clip, and be sure you have something to count with….you’ll need it.

Now, a couple of those were deserved, Darko Milicic doesn’t really have the right to be a whiny baby at this (or any) stage of his career and get away with it. But five T’s in the third quarter of a six-point game? Unless there’s a fight, that just shouldn’t happen. Show some restraint.

It also made me wonder though, what exactly would be Tommy Heinsohn’s reaction if something like that ever transpired at the TD Garden. It probably would go something like this:

More on the way today, including some thoughts on the Sheed rumors.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>