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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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Welcome Kurly!: Celtics 99, Clippers 92

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The post-Perkins era, or should I say the Nenad Krstic era, has begun with a W.  Sloppy, ugly, and painful to watch at times,  but a “W” nonetheless.  There were a lot of examples of things one would normally think to witness while watching a Celtics v. Clippers game.  There was some strong defensive play late by the Celtics.  There were some really disorganized strings of turnover-to-turnover possessions.  And one huge, thunderous Blake Griffin throw down.  These were to be expected.  Not everything tonight, however, could have been easily predicted.

Let’s start with the newbies.  How many of you thought Nenad Krstic would be the newbie worth noting tonight?  I expected Krstic to come in, play slow, and hit a couple of long jumpers that made me think, “hey, maybe it’ll be nice to have a center with a little range.”  Instead, he came out really aggressive–almost as if he wanted to prove to the Celtics that he could fill in some of what Perkins brought to this team.  He snagged 6 rebounds (all offensive) but more importantly, he got a hand on a ton of up-for-grab balls and hedged on the pick and roll really well.

Jeff Green, on the other hand, started really slow and looked a little rough in the early going.  It’s tough when your first significant play as a Celtics is getting embarassingly dunked on in transition.  Still, he showed flashes of the ability Danny Ainge thinks will be essential to a title run.

The last thing you expected to see?  Randy Foye scoring 32 points.  Seriously, he’s not that good.

That’s it for right now.  Much more to come tomorrow with a ton of talk on how Krstic may not be as bad as we thought.

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