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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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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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