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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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Scattered Thoughts On the Wizards Win

When it was all said and done the Celtics won a game last night by 16 points.  A healthy margin for sure, but when you consider that neither team played any defense last night and the Celtics are simply better than the Wizards, you can’t help but feel like you did right after the Bulls loss on Thursday.  Like I wrote last night, you have to avoid the inclination to read too much into a team’s play against a far inferior team.  It’s pretty evident that the Celtics knew they would win last night based on talent and turning it on and grinding it out.  Doc Rivers seemed to say as much after the game:
“No, it was not.  It was one of those games where every time we pulled away they stayed just close enough.  And, so, it was a win.”

This is not the type of attitude the team can have going into tomorrow’s game against Miami, or the playoffs.  That being said, let’s take a look at some highlights and lowlights from last night:

This is the most assertive I have seen Kevin Garnett on a dunk in a very long time.


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Every good turn deserves another. So here’s Javale McGee awkwardly losing the ball and then dunking on Nenad Krstic.

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I have posted a couple of different clips this season of what I thought may have been the best Celtics basketball. Here’s maybe the single worst basketball sequence I have ever seen:

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Andray Blatche must be incredibly frustrating for anyone who ever tried to make it in pro basketball but wasn’t tall enough or skilled enough but worked tirelessly. Just look what he does…and then scores:


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And here’s John Wall showing everyone that he’s working on his Derek Rose but he’s just not quite there yet.

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