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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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Highlight Gallery: Pacers 97, Celtics 83

3. Ray Crosses Paul George Over

Here’s Paul George thinking Ray Allen is an easy assignment because he’s slower and five inches shorter, and then Ray throws a 36-year-old crossover in his mug and leaves him in the Indiana dirt. Then Ray passes it off to Avery Bradley, who literally shoots himself out of the game and possibly the rotation.

2. E’Twaun Moore Passes Avery Bradley in Career 3-Point Total

The Avery Bradley-E’Twaun Moore career 3-pointer race is really heating up! Here’s Moore squeaking past Bradley for the lead.

That brings the Bradley-Moore Shootout grand total to:

E’Twaun Moore: 2 (in 40 minutes)
Avery Bradley: 1 (in 254 minutes)

Back and forth they go! Who will emerge triumphant??

1. Rondo Hauls It In And Scores

This might have been the only legitimately great play of the night. Pierce gets trapped in the paint and lofts a no-look to a cutting Rondo, but the pass is a little off, so Rondo reaches out and Gronks the pass in traffic. Even more amazing is that, even with his momentum carrying him away from the basket, he retains enough control to spin and bank it in.

Fox Sports Indiana even showed a replay. What nice guys.

That shot tied the game and put the Celtics on a 7-0 run! Then they gave up a 10-0 run.

0. Lowlight Highlight Reel

I considered cutting together all of Jermaine’s blown layups and dunks in a “supercut” of sorts, but that would take me nine hours so here’s one terrible play where Jermaine really shines.

-Rondo drives and dumps it off to Pierce in perfect position.
-Pierce completely bones the layup. How many layups did they miss tonight? 8? 12? It might actually be 12.
-Jermaine gets the rebound, but gets blocked when Hibbert jumps one inch to contest his shot.
-Pierce gets the loose ball, then passes it out to Jermaine, who unfortunately has put on two baseball gloves and muffs it.
-Rondo mercifully fouls George Hill to end this charade of a possession.

0A. KG Aggressively Throws Pass Into Backboard

Two lowlights for a terrible game! Here’s Garnett seeing a wide-open Jermaine under the basket, then hucking the ball off the backboard square at 150 mph. Classic Garnett: violent, angry turnovers.

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