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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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Shaquille O’Neal Will Not Play Against Heat & Wizards

A week after seeing a very brief return from the team’s prized starting center in Shaquille O’Neal, the team has decided to be very cautious with the 39-year-old and his strained calf. Jeff Twiss, the Celtics’ PR director confirmed this morning that O’Neal did not make the trip with the team to Miami for Sunday’s showdown with the Heat for the number two seed. He will also not play Monday night in Washington against the Wizards.

The decision to hold Shaq out is the move that head coach Doc Rivers was leaning towards last night in his postgame press conference:

“I’m not sure. I’m going to lean towards not [playing]. But I’m not sure yet.” said Rivers. “We’ll talk in the morning. If we don’t think there’s any chance, he won’t go on the trip. If he goes on the trip, then there’s a chance he’ll play.”

And the latest on Jermaine O’Neal who sat out last night for precautionary reasons from Doc last night as well:

“I’m holding him out — he wanted to play, but I didn’t think he should play,” said Rivers. “I just want to keep him healthy. He’s played a bunch of games. We have games (tomorrow), Monday and Wednesday, and he would like to play that entire week, so I thought this would be a good game for him to sit. The only thing I would do different with JO is we’re sitting him too long — only playing him five or six minutes in a row,” he said. “I would sit him five and play him again. I didn’t know what to expect. But defensively he’s been very good for us.”

Both Jermaine and Von Wafer made the trip according to Twiss. Full analysis on the move to hold out Shaq on the way….

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