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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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Woj: Celtics Offered 1st Rounder and Nate Robinson for Jared Dudley

The latest round of tweets from Yahoo’s NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski indicates the details surrounding C’s (along with several other teams) pursuit of swingman Jared Dudley. Here’s the latest from his Twitter account

Boston, Chicago and several more would love to pry Jared Dudley out of Phoenix, sources say. Suns can’t dump Childress deal, need money off.

Celtics have dangled Nate Robinson and 1st round pick, which isn’t the most appealing package on market to get a talented perimeter player.

To be clear on Celts, I’m told they haven’t checked on Dudley very recently. No sense Suns will move him, but he has great value to teams.

CH’s Analysis: Quite the lowball offer there from Ainge for a guy like Dudley, who is locked up on a very reasonable deal for the next five years at 4.25 million/year.

The gritty small forward would be a dream pickup for Doc off the bench, with his ability to hit three’s, defend, and make smart plays all over the floor. I watched this guy for four years at Boston College and he’s easily one of my favorites to come out of there and certainly has thrived once he arrived in Phoenix a couple years back in the Jason Richardson deal.

With that said, as Woj indicated, this deal obviously isn’t happening unless Ainge ups the ante a lot. For me though, this is the kind of guy I open until the entire asset cabinet for. He solves your small forward backup problem for the next four years and takes a tremendous onus off Paul Pierce and Ray Allen going forward.

Am I crazy to think offering a choice of two of the follow three things (Avery Bradley, Semih Erden, 1st Round pick) would not be too much here? Ainge won’t go there, but you have to give up something to get something of value and this is a case where losing the young kids might be worth it. My desire to win now may be too much, but to me this is a year where you sacrifice the future a bit, with the Eastern Conference getting more and more loaded in the years to come. Whose with me on this?

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