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Avery Bradley Likely Done For Season

On the back of a horrific game six performance, Gary Washburn of the Globe piled on with more bad news: Avery Bradley is almost certainly done for the season. Washburn: A source close to Bradley told the Globe that it’s in the “high 90s” percentile that Bradley will be shut down and will perhaps need [...]

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3 days ago

Game 6 Will Be Wednesday Night at 8pm on ESPN

After the Thunder finished up their series by routinely dismantling the Lakers last night to send them packing in five games, a time has been announced for the C’s-Sixers Game 6 on Wednesday night. It will tipoff shortly after 8pm on ESPN. Looking ahead in the postseason, if the C’s do win Game 6, and [...]

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4 days ago

Highlight: Rondo Leads The Break

I love this decision-making from Rajon Rondo. While leading the break, you can see him eyeballing Ray Allen, who runs the wing and spots up on the arc. The Sixers have a 1-2 disadvantage but are mostly concerned about Allen’s three balls, which allows Mickael Pietrus to make an unmolested baseline cut behind the defense. [...]

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4 days ago

Celtics-Sixers Game 5 Tips off at 7pm

A note to all you local C’s fans out there that may be attending the game tonight at TD Garden. The game will start just after 7pm and will be broadcast nationally on TNT. However, unlike most TNT regular season games during the season, the tip will not come 15-20 minutes after the scheduled start [...]

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12 days ago

(Video) Rajon Rondo Continues To Dominate In Postgame Interview

Rajon Rondo is a tremendous player, but he tends to have a little bit of an issue scoring the ball late in games. I won’t go as far as saying he is scared, but he does pass up shots and defer to teammates in crunch-time….well a lot. Last night though may have been his coming [...]

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13 days ago

Video: Full Kevin Garnett Reaction After Game 1

Garnett followed up his season-best effort against Atlanta in Game 6 with a new season-high in points and another sensational double-double, as well 60 percent shooting (12-of-20) from the field. Over his past two contests, Garnett is averaging 28.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, two steals and four blocks a game. After the game, KG was candid [...]

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Celtics Trade Glen Davis For Brandon Bass

Marc Spears of Yahoo! Sports tweets the Celtics are sign-and-trading Glen Davis to the Orlando Magic for Brandon Bass.

The 26-year-old, 6’8″ Bass is entering his seventh year in the league, after averaging 11.2 points per game last season for the Magic. He also registered career-highs in starting 51 games and averaging 26.1 minutes per. His contract calls for $4M this season, with a player option for the same amount for 2012-13.

One of Bass’ key strengths is his mid-range game, which is an improvement over the departing Davis. Bass hit 47% of his shots from 16-23 feet last season, while Davis was far more erratic at 35%. Overall, beyond 10 feet, Bass shot 46.1%.

Bass has a reputation as an offensive black hole, so with ball-sticking being such a sin in the C’s offense, we can expect Doc Rivers to find some teachable moments in the early going.

One downside: Davis and Bass are basically a wash as rebounders. Which means more mediocrity.

As Brian noted this morning, this has been coming for a long time for the C’s. Davis’ relationship with the Celtics has always involved flare-ups, usually centered around Davis’ meandering road to maturity and his constant concerns about whether he’s being featured enough on the offense and the team. He gave the Celtics many good games, many of them under pressure and may yet be a starter in this league. But it’s not going to happen with Boston.

UPDATE: The Davis deal with Orlando is for 4 years/$26 million.

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