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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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Doc: Shaq Feeling Better, Shooting To Practice Friday

The Celtics just wrapped the media rounds in Waltham, before starting their first practice after two well-earned off. Here’s the latest on Shaq from Chris Forsberg over at ESPNBoston.com

“Shaq is not going to practice today, and he will not practice [Thursday],” said Rivers. “We hope he’ll practice the next day, whatever day that would be. Is that Friday? OK, we hope he’s back on Friday. But we don’t know, we’ll see.”

Rivers later admitted that O’Neal, limited to 5½ minutes of action since Feb. 1 due to right Achilles and calf injuries, is doing “a lot better,” but wouldn’t start speculating about his availability for Game 1 of the next round.

“It really depends, not just on Friday, but Friday and Saturday, so I don’t know,” said Rivers. “I don’t know if I’m confident or not. I’m hopeful.”

The Celtics took Monday and Tuesday off and Rivers zipped home to Orlando for the break. Asked if the team had examined O’Neal during the lull in activity, Rivers quipped: “I didn’t take a look at anybody. Unless he was in Orlando, Florida, I didn’t see Shaq — and Shaq could have been in Orlando, now that I think about it.”

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