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Paul Pierce’s Contract: Dispelling The Myths and Stating The Facts

The first domino to fall this offseason is Paul Pierce’s contract. Until Danny Ainge figures out what he’s doing there, little else matters. As we wait for this decision, we also must face the rest of the offseason, which means it is also rumor season. With that time of year, comes plenty of information floating [...]

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10 days ago

Final Grade: Avery Bradley (C+)

In his third year in the league, in which promising players often make brash leaps from benchwarmer to starter, from starter to star, Avery Bradley took a big step back. But his regression might be deceptive. When he returned to the Celtics’ lineup on January the 2nd after two in-season months recovering from offseason shoulder [...]

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10 days ago

Danny Ainge Expects Doc Rivers & Kevin Garnett To Return, Unsure About Paul Pierce

A long, challenging offseason awaits Danny Ainge this summer. Before he dives in head first, he joined Salk and Holley on WEEI-FM 93.7 to discuss the multitude of decisions facing him this offseason, as well as the progress of Rajon Rondo in his rehab from ACL surgery. A few of the notable highlights from the interview. Ainge [...]

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10 days ago

Suns Hire Away Celtics’ Assistant GM Ryan McDonough

In one way or another, there will be change this offseason in Boston. That process started in the past couple days, with the first piece moving out coming as a name most C’s fans might not be familiar with. Yet, it was Celtics’ assistant general manager Ryan McDonough, one of Danny Ainge’s top lieutenants, who [...]

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12 days ago

Doc Rivers Finishes 13th in Coach of the Year Voting

It was a tough season for the Boston Celtics, and that includes for head coach Doc Rivers. The long-time coach battled to find the right fit for a lot of new pieces that were both underperforming and/or failed to pick up his schemes on both ends of the floor. Naturally, an unfortunate plethora of injuries [...]

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13 days ago

Overconfident Answers To Offseason Questions (Part 1)

It seems like every offseason since 2010 we’ve been through this: a myriad of questions and concerns about the Celtics’ roster that usually involve the possibility of the core of the team being dismantled. As we head into the summer of 2013, we’ve got a whole batch of questions, many of which will be familiar.  [...]

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Photo/Video Essay: Celtics Win in LA

On Sunday the Celtics won their 47th game.  That’s it.  No extra storylines.  This was just another game….Okay, so maybe that’s only kind of true.  Which is why I am only going to kind of highlight the more salients parts of the game.

Before we begin, there are some worthwhile statistics to point out.  Old friend Zach Lowe put the Celtics’ season shooting numbers in perspective and Chris Forsberg at ESPN.com makes a case for Ray Allen being the new answer to Kobe Bryant.  I took the liberty of playing around with Basketball Reference’s Team Game Finder-Thingy and found even more interesting things.  The Celtics have shot over 60% against the Lakers twice since 1986.  One time was yesterday and the other was this crazy game that ended in a Celtics’ loss.  Go figure.

Last but not least, remember those unis the Lakers wore last night?  Well they wore them against the Celtics a few years ago too.  That game was another Celtics win.  Here are some highlights of that game.

Alright, here we go.

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Up close? A bandage.  From far away?  A crazy birthmark.

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Kendrick Perkins is so dirty.  Just look what his telepathy did to Derek Fisher.

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Remember when I showed you a call that Paul Pierce never gets?  Yeah, well here’s Derek Fisher getting that call.

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Kobe sneaks a peek at Shaq’s chest.  C’mon Kobe, his eyes are up there.

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Ray Allen just baited Fisher into a cheap foul while trying to run him off a screen.  Big mistake…

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On the very next play Fisher draws a “foul” on Allen.  Here’s the last contact Allen makes with Fisher.

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Here is where they call the foul and reenact the breakout scene from Shawshank Redemption.

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Amazing Celtic defense.  I can watch this over and over and over again.

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Here is Pau Gasol’s patented “I want to sell a foul so let me do a controlled butt slide” slowed down by 75%.  Warning, the audio is creepy but suitable for work I s’pose.

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Good work fellas.  You can leave now.

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