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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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3 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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12 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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A Win’s A Win: Celtics 104, Wizards 88

I need to check with Truth About It to see if this bit was retired after last season's locker room "incident"

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A night after getting completely outplayed by Derrick Rose, Rajon Rondo takes his frustration out on DRose 2.0*.  Make no mistake though, Rondo was more of a beneficiary of getting to play a terrible Wizards team than actually taking the game over.

A win is a win, which is great, but there are plenty of things not to like about tonight’s play.  The defense absolutely awful, which was probably why the Garden was the quietest I have witnessed in recent memory..  The Wizards shot 53% in the first half and finished the game shooting 45%.  It’s nice to see the defense tighten up in the second half but it’s disheartening to realize that the superior play in the second half was a direct result of the starters playing more and the bench playing less.  The Celtics starters played close to playoff minutes.  Paul Pierce and Rondo each played at least 40 minutes and Ray Allen played 37.  While it was refreshing to see the starters out on the court, you still want the bench to play up to their ability and you still want the starters’ minutes conserved for the playoffs.  It’s just not happening.

Like anytime you play a bad team, you cannot read too much into the outcome or the team’s overall play…but we’ll try tomorrow.  For now, just go out and enjoy the thought that the Celtics are halfway to a winning streak.

*Okay so maybe John Wall will become a similar player to Rose but he’s hardly in the same stratosphere right not.

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