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2 days ago

Avery Bradley Likely Done For Season

On the back of a horrific game six performance, Gary Washburn of the Globe piled on with more bad news: Avery Bradley is almost certainly done for the season. Washburn: A source close to Bradley told the Globe that it’s in the “high 90s” percentile that Bradley will be shut down and will perhaps need [...]

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3 days ago

Game 6 Will Be Wednesday Night at 8pm on ESPN

After the Thunder finished up their series by routinely dismantling the Lakers last night to send them packing in five games, a time has been announced for the C’s-Sixers Game 6 on Wednesday night. It will tipoff shortly after 8pm on ESPN. Looking ahead in the postseason, if the C’s do win Game 6, and [...]

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4 days ago

Highlight: Rondo Leads The Break

I love this decision-making from Rajon Rondo. While leading the break, you can see him eyeballing Ray Allen, who runs the wing and spots up on the arc. The Sixers have a 1-2 disadvantage but are mostly concerned about Allen’s three balls, which allows Mickael Pietrus to make an unmolested baseline cut behind the defense. [...]

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4 days ago

Celtics-Sixers Game 5 Tips off at 7pm

A note to all you local C’s fans out there that may be attending the game tonight at TD Garden. The game will start just after 7pm and will be broadcast nationally on TNT. However, unlike most TNT regular season games during the season, the tip will not come 15-20 minutes after the scheduled start [...]

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12 days ago

(Video) Rajon Rondo Continues To Dominate In Postgame Interview

Rajon Rondo is a tremendous player, but he tends to have a little bit of an issue scoring the ball late in games. I won’t go as far as saying he is scared, but he does pass up shots and defer to teammates in crunch-time….well a lot. Last night though may have been his coming [...]

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13 days ago

Video: Full Kevin Garnett Reaction After Game 1

Garnett followed up his season-best effort against Atlanta in Game 6 with a new season-high in points and another sensational double-double, as well 60 percent shooting (12-of-20) from the field. Over his past two contests, Garnett is averaging 28.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, two steals and four blocks a game. After the game, KG was candid [...]

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Beaten Green: Celtics 77, Rockets 93

ESPN Box Score • Red94 • The Dream Shake

It was pretty clear from the first few missed jumpers from Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett that tonight was going to be long.  Despite being down 22 points at halftime, there was actually a glimmer of hope that the Celtics would come out of the locker room, start executing their offensive sets, and start really making to Rockets grind out their possessions.  The Celtics really could have been in this game in the second half.  Just like everything in the known universe, the Rockets scorching offense regressed to the mean to the point where the Celtics bench actually outscored the Rockets in the second half by six points.

By then though, the Celtics had already given up.  They allowed themselves to completely deflate.  The turning point in the game came during the second possession of the second half where, after just forcing the Rockets into a bad shot to start the third quarter, Kevin Garnett gets called for an illegal screen.  I love Kevin Martin, but just because his body is incapable of absorbing any contact doesn’t mean that every bit of contact is a foul.  Martin is incredibly adept at drawing fouls but there’s a cheap way and a respected way and Martin toes the line.

The biggest thing everyone should put in their minds after watching/reading the box score/hearing about tonight’s game: 3/10/10.

On 3/10/10, the Boston Celtics got destroyed by an inferior Memphis Grizzlies team and the doomsayers were packing away their greenery and putting on their Red Sox gear.  The bottom line is that the only thing that’s over right now is tonight’s game.  Okay, and this quick recap.

That’s it for now, Mike Salvucci will have more later.

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