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3-on-3: Will Doc Rivers Return Next Season?

With the Doc Rivers coaching watch heating up to a fever pitch in the past few days with a countless number of credible reports, we decided it’s time to get our crew back together and address the speculation. 1. On a scale of 1-10, how confident are you Doc Rivers will coach the Celtics next [...]

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9 days ago

Rajon Rondo Reads Mean Tweets About Himself on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Despite all the rehab, Rajon Rondo is finding ways to keep busy this offseason. Just a couple weeks after appearing on E!’s Fashion Police show, the point guard was back on TV last night, in a fun segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live called Mean Tweets. In it, celebrities, or in this case NBA players, read [...]

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22 days ago

Why Are People So Eager To Trade Paul Pierce?

The whispers around Paul Pierce’s future with the Celtics continue to surface in the fourth week of Boston’s offseason. Unconfirmed report after unconfirmed report has circled in, stating anything from Pierce’s house being on the market, to the team being “likely” to buy him out. Locally, plenty of Celtics fans seem resigned to the fact [...]

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24 days ago

Terrence Williams Tells His Side of the Story on Arrest

It was a tough start to the offseason last week for Terrence Williams. After standing out as one of the bright spots on the Celtics roster late last season, he was taken into custody last week with the disturbing allegation that he pulled a gun during a domestic dispute with his son’s mother and her [...]

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25 days ago

Video: Rajon Rondo on E! Fashion Police

What has Rajon Rondo been up to this offseason beyond rehabbing his ACL injury? Rubbing elbows with Joan Rivers, that’s what. Just one summer after spending some time showing off his fashion sense in an internship with GQ, Rondo went one-on-one with Rivers on E’s Fashion Police, since well he has some time on his [...]

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26 days ago

Jason Terry’s 2012-13 Final Grade

  Acquiring any player, whether it’s via trade, free agency, or the draft, comes with an air of uncertainty. The NBA has no guaranteed covenant and all sales are final, no matter how talented, proven, or productive the player may have been in year’s past. But these memories—especially recent ones—often clouds the judgment of a [...]

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Down the stretch, the big three delivered.

Bad Things Are About To Happen To J-Rich

Ray Allen knocked in two huge fourth-quarter three pointers to quell the building Orlando momentum as the game raced to a finish. Allen ran around screen after screen to get open for a team-high 26 points, on scintillating (and increasingly typical) 8-11 shooting.

After taking a total of 0 (zero) fourth-quarter shots until the final minute, Paul Pierce finally knocked in an and-one elbow jumper to put the C’s up for good. Then he swatted away a late-game three-pointer on the defensive end.

And Kevin Garnett, returning after a 9-game absence from a strained calf, put in 19 points and 8 rebounds in 31 impressive minutes, including a potentially game-saving steal of a Jameer Nelson pass on the second last Orlando possession of the game.

By the time, they got the ball back for their final shot, it was too late.

The Celtics had this one wrapped up.

So, while it was by no means easy with Dwight Howard unloading on an overmatched Celtics’ frontline to tally 33 points and 13 rebounds, Boston passed this test without Kendrick Perkins and Delonte West (both of whom, we might add, could have addressed a couple of major problems tonight).

But we’ll get into those later on.

For now, enjoy the win.

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