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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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Updates on Shaq & Delonte

A few news and notes, after the C’s went through a walkthrough yesterday in Waltham before watching video and implenting their gameplan. Meanwhile, the Knicks going off the heels of a back-to-back to close out the season took the day off, and made the media rounds with Carmelo appearing on David Letterman and Amar’e stopping by Regis and Kelly. Why not take advantage of the media attention while you can right?

Dan Duggan of The Boston Herald gets us caught up with the latest on Shaq and Delonte, before the team goes full throttle in practice today at noon.

Coach Doc Rivers and general manager Danny Ainge have insisted that O’Neal will be ready for the playoffs. With that time here, the expectation is a little less certain.

“I do, but I can’t guarantee that,” Rivers said of O’Neal’s availability for Game 1. “He’s going to do a little bit today. We’re not going to do enough — we’re going to walk through stuff, so I could do today. But tomorrow and the following day are the two big days for Shaq. He’s going to try to get through practices and see what he can do.”

O’Neal appeared in only 37 games this season, missing all but five minutes of the final 34 games. O’Neal went down with a right Achilles injury on Feb. 1, missed the next two months and returned on April 3. He looked good for five minutes — before straining his right calf, which kept him out of the lineup for the remainder of the regular season.

As big of a boost it would be to see Shaq in Game 1, would anyone be shocked at this point if they hold him out Game 3 in New York? With New York likely to go small for most of the series anyway, Shaq’s impact will be very limited off the bat, so I feel like its a fair question to ask on whether give him the extra week if he truly needs it.

Doc on Delonte’s Sprained Right Ankle

“I think he’ll be fine,” Rivers said. “I don’t know that, but he’s walking with no (limp) today. He said he could play today if there was a game, so that’s a good sign for us.”

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