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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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21 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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23 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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24 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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25 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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25 days ago

Why Is Doc Rivers Waiting to Confirm His Return to the Celtics Next Season? A Theory on The Wait

The waiting is the hardest part. At least that’s what the Celtics’ brass must feel like about their coveted head coach. A week after Danny Ainge confirmed to The Boston Globe that Doc Rivers would be returning to the Celtics’ bench next season, we’re still waiting for a direct word from the head coach himself. [...]

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Doc Rivers: All-Star Coach, Person

Ryan and I spent a few minutes talking to Tyronn Lue today during one of the crazy media availability events, and he hit us with an interesting nugget about being a member of the All-Star game coaching staff.

Lue is a former NBA role player, one of KG’s best friends, and the Celtics’ Director of Basketball Development, a totally nebulous position that he nonetheless seems to enjoy. He was working the largely ceremonial practice before tomorrow’s All-Star Game, along with seemingly the entire Celtics basketball operations staff. All the guys you’d recognize from the edge of the bench were there: Brian Doo, excitable strength and conditioning coach most famous for this photo. Phil Lynch, director of team security, who you know as the hairless gentleman who escorts the C’s through the tunnels after games. Even the Celtics’ prize-distributing jumbotron hype man, whose name I don’t know but who goes by “Coach,” was working the room.

Seems like a lot of people to fly to Los Angeles for one essentially uncoached game, right? Turns out, according to Lue, that most of them were there because Doc Rivers paid for them to come.

Lue said he wasn’t officially invited with the coaching staff, but he really wanted to go because he wasn’t part of the team the last time Doc coached in 2008. So Doc paid for the whole crew, not just the lead assistants, to come along. Not sure to what extent the money came out of his own pocket, but Lue was definitely appreciative of Doc’s efforts.

He also was totally unafraid to use profanity when he talked to us, which was a summer breeze in an atmosphere of stiff, watered-down interview responses. Thanks, Ty!

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