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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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C’s 89, Bobcats 94: Blame the Schedulers

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I’m no Demetri Martin, but I think we can do some Trendspotting here.

Seven of the Celtics 13 losses have come in the form of a SEGABABA. That’s what we call a Second Game of a Back to Back, or a Sega Genesis for sheep (count it).

It’s really no surprise that the 2010-11 Celtics would lose a lot of games like this. This is an old team with old bones, and one that has documented trouble getting up for regular season games to begin with. I’d imagine the most difficult games to show maximum effort in would be those when you’ve just played a game the night before, especially if that game was in a different city. You’d probably have the most trouble going full speed in the fourth quarter. So, like the other six losses of this nature, that’s about all we can take from this meltdown against the Bobcats tonight.

Unfortunately, our long national SEGABABA nightmare is not quite over. They’ve got three coming up in the second half of March against the Nets, Hornets, and Pacers. Not necessarily great news, because one could argue that if the C’s are going to lose these games they might as well be against really good teams.

Then in April, the C’s have two SEGABABAs in FOUR DAYS, and they’re BOTH against Washington, to whom Boston already dropped a SEGABABA this season.

But there are no SEGABABAs in the playoffs. We’ll get into this one in a little while.

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