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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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9 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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12 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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Waking Up to Disappointment

Rajon Urkel

Nuclear winter.  Jeopardy.  Irresponsible.  A charade.

This are just some of the exaggerated verbiage David Stern is using to describe the players rejecting the NBA’s newest CBA offer. Despite the disappointed father act Stern’s putting on, he is right about one thing.   It is pretty irresponsible not to have an NBA season. Popularity was at an all time high and casual fans found enjoyment in loving or hating the fact that LeBron James was dominating the league. Are they really coming back after all this?

In the spirit of SNL’s take on Herman Cain (“proposing unworkable solutions to complicated problems”), I will attempt to explain what’s going on now and three sentences or less:

With the player’s rejecting the latest deal, they are going to decertify as a union in order to sue the NBA. This sets them up for months and months of legal back and forth, however since no one involved actually wants this an out-of-court settlement will likely take place.

It’s also possible this all could go the other way and Stern will cancel the season. (If you want a more robust breakdown, check out CelticsHub alum Zach Lowe’s post on SI).

Either way, this all sucks. Just plain ol’ sucks.  Peter May of ESPNBoston.com, seems to think it sucks a little more for the Celtics than everyone else:

“It’s going to hurt the Celtics, that’s for sure. They are your proverbial “small-window” team in terms of being able to compete for a championship, and with one year removed, that window has gotten smaller or even is about to be closed. Neither Kevin Garnett nor Ray Allen is under contract for 2012-13. (Mercifully, neither is Jermaine O’Neal.)”

I think this is a bit over-simplified.  There will most likely be a mechanism for resigning a team’s former players in the new CBA and if anyone could benefit from not having the wear and tear of an NBA season, it’s Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Paul Pierce.  Do you really think Garnett and Allen will be that much more over-the-hill next October than they are now?

It’s hard to say who is in the right and who is in the wrong between the owners and the players, but I will say that the indisputable victim in all of this is my girlfriend.  If you’ve been watching TrueHoopTV, then you know that I am growing a “lockout beard”.

You have no idea how hard it is to eat with this thing.  I’m thinking of morphing this into the James Harden beard for my rec league playoffs but I’m still undecided.  Anyone can grow a beard, that just takes time.  But if I can pull this off, then that would be really impressive.

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