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9 days ago

Paul Pierce’s Contract: Dispelling The Myths and Stating The Facts

The first domino to fall this offseason is Paul Pierce’s contract. Until Danny Ainge figures out what he’s doing there, little else matters. As we wait for this decision, we also must face the rest of the offseason, which means it is also rumor season. With that time of year, comes plenty of information floating [...]

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10 days ago

Final Grade: Avery Bradley (C+)

In his third year in the league, in which promising players often make brash leaps from benchwarmer to starter, from starter to star, Avery Bradley took a big step back. But his regression might be deceptive. When he returned to the Celtics’ lineup on January the 2nd after two in-season months recovering from offseason shoulder [...]

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10 days ago

Danny Ainge Expects Doc Rivers & Kevin Garnett To Return, Unsure About Paul Pierce

A long, challenging offseason awaits Danny Ainge this summer. Before he dives in head first, he joined Salk and Holley on WEEI-FM 93.7 to discuss the multitude of decisions facing him this offseason, as well as the progress of Rajon Rondo in his rehab from ACL surgery. A few of the notable highlights from the interview. Ainge [...]

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10 days ago

Suns Hire Away Celtics’ Assistant GM Ryan McDonough

In one way or another, there will be change this offseason in Boston. That process started in the past couple days, with the first piece moving out coming as a name most C’s fans might not be familiar with. Yet, it was Celtics’ assistant general manager Ryan McDonough, one of Danny Ainge’s top lieutenants, who [...]

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11 days ago

Doc Rivers Finishes 13th in Coach of the Year Voting

It was a tough season for the Boston Celtics, and that includes for head coach Doc Rivers. The long-time coach battled to find the right fit for a lot of new pieces that were both underperforming and/or failed to pick up his schemes on both ends of the floor. Naturally, an unfortunate plethora of injuries [...]

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13 days ago

Overconfident Answers To Offseason Questions (Part 1)

It seems like every offseason since 2010 we’ve been through this: a myriad of questions and concerns about the Celtics’ roster that usually involve the possibility of the core of the team being dismantled. As we head into the summer of 2013, we’ve got a whole batch of questions, many of which will be familiar.  [...]

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It’s Over: Celtics 112, Knicks 102

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Shame about this season. I think if we were all capable of viewing it as a whole, with the beginning of the season given equal weight to the end, we’d be feeling better than we do. What if the C’s had started the season the way they ended it, and finished how they started? We’d all be pretty chipper right now if the Celtics had started off at .500, hovering around the 6th or 7th seed, then somehow untraded Kendrick Perkins and finished winning three-quarters of their games, locking down the third seed in the final game of the season! Pretty chipper indeed. So that was a fun thought experiment.

The Celtics scrubs, led by belated basketball player Avery Bradley, beat the Knick semi-scrubs in a game that should tell us virtually nothing about the first round of the playoffs, but came with some fun dunkery regardless. The otherwise bench players rebounded (figuratively, not so much literally) from their grotesque low-percentage outing against the Wiz to put together some pretty decent offense from some pretty surprising places. It was more fun than it should have been. Congratulations to the fans who went out to this game and cheered hard for no reason, because you guys are the real heroes.

Many Avery Bradley dunks to come. Seeya soon.

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