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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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Making It An Even Ten: Celtics 83, Wizards 85

ESPN Box Score • Truth About It • Bullets Forever

The Celtics’ offense completely disappeared after the first quarter and the Wizards took complete advantage.  And by “complete advantage” I mean they were slightly less terrible than the second half Celtics.  The Wizards may have won tonight but they were so bad it took them until around the last two minutes of the game to overtake a Celtics team that only scored 11 fourth quarter points.  11 fourth quarter points!  No matter how many times I look at the ESPN Box Score I still can’t help but refresh my page thinking that I have an older cached version loaded up.

The Wizards were bad tonight but the Celtics were worse.  The fourth quarter was astounding.  I do not think I have ever seen that many missed wide open shots from the Celtics.  These wide open shots were also right in the Celtics players’ respective wheelhouses.  Ray Allen missed a three without anyone within ten feet of him.  Glen Davis and Kevin Garnett missed wide open long twos from both sides of the key.  Biggest miss of all goes to Paul Pierce who bricked the potential game winner from his foul line extended sweet spot.

The Wizards put this one away with an awkward end-of-the-shot-clock bank three pointer from Superstar-In-Training John Wall.  I don’t mind the hero moment.  I like Wall and he has the talent to be one of the best players in the league someday.  I object to the complicated hand gesture(s) that came afterward.  If you didn’t catch it, John Wall hit an embarrassingly ugly, unintentional bank shot to put the Wizards up for good and proceeded to celebrate by playing Miss Mary Mack with himself.

Here’s a quick photo montage:

Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack…

All dressed in black black black….

With silver buttons buttons buttons…

All down her back back back…

There was one more move but the camera angle was obscured by a referee.  Don’t worry though.  Kyle Weidie of Truth About It just tweeted that Wall and Andray Blatche are playing Double Dutch out by the Verizon Center’s loading dock and he’s recording it on his camera phone.

I’ll break down this horrendous second half for the Cs later.  For now, go out and pretend this game didn’t happen.

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