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6 days ago

3-on-3: Will Doc Rivers Return Next Season?

With the Doc Rivers coaching watch heating up to a fever pitch in the past few days with a countless number of credible reports, we decided it’s time to get our crew back together and address the speculation. 1. On a scale of 1-10, how confident are you Doc Rivers will coach the Celtics next [...]

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9 days ago

Rajon Rondo Reads Mean Tweets About Himself on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Despite all the rehab, Rajon Rondo is finding ways to keep busy this offseason. Just a couple weeks after appearing on E!’s Fashion Police show, the point guard was back on TV last night, in a fun segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live called Mean Tweets. In it, celebrities, or in this case NBA players, read [...]

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22 days ago

Why Are People So Eager To Trade Paul Pierce?

The whispers around Paul Pierce’s future with the Celtics continue to surface in the fourth week of Boston’s offseason. Unconfirmed report after unconfirmed report has circled in, stating anything from Pierce’s house being on the market, to the team being “likely” to buy him out. Locally, plenty of Celtics fans seem resigned to the fact [...]

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24 days ago

Terrence Williams Tells His Side of the Story on Arrest

It was a tough start to the offseason last week for Terrence Williams. After standing out as one of the bright spots on the Celtics roster late last season, he was taken into custody last week with the disturbing allegation that he pulled a gun during a domestic dispute with his son’s mother and her [...]

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25 days ago

Video: Rajon Rondo on E! Fashion Police

What has Rajon Rondo been up to this offseason beyond rehabbing his ACL injury? Rubbing elbows with Joan Rivers, that’s what. Just one summer after spending some time showing off his fashion sense in an internship with GQ, Rondo went one-on-one with Rivers on E’s Fashion Police, since well he has some time on his [...]

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26 days ago

Jason Terry’s 2012-13 Final Grade

  Acquiring any player, whether it’s via trade, free agency, or the draft, comes with an air of uncertainty. The NBA has no guaranteed covenant and all sales are final, no matter how talented, proven, or productive the player may have been in year’s past. But these memories—especially recent ones—often clouds the judgment of a [...]

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I Asked Avery Bradley What?!

Sometimes when you’re in a crowded locker room with a bunch of other media miscreants, things get hectic.  When things get hectic, maybe you get distracted and have a slip of the tongue.  Maybe you are me.

If that is the case then you tried to ask Avery Bradley about the hard foul he took from Dwight Howard by using the word “shot” instead of “foul” because you’re hip and original.  But because you are also an idiot, you replaced the ‘o’ with an ‘i’ and now you have been completely blacklisted by the Comcast camera guys.

Such is the life of a blogger.  Working tirelessly to improve your reputation while only sabotaging it more.

Other than laughing at my expense (and please do not hold back), Bradley’s contributions during Rajon Rondo’s absence should not only be acknowledged but also admired.

So far, Bradley has had to face Steve Nash, John Wall, and Jameer Nelson.  Each game he has consistently pressured the ball handler, making it enormously harder for the point guard to establish a rhythm.

For everything Bradley lacks on the offensive end, he is consistently making it harder for opponents’ offenses to get set up and run their stuff.  Bradley’s contributions become all the more important when you consider how little the Celtics are getting from E’Twuan Moore right now.

Consider the following: in the past three games, the Celtic’s starting point guards have committed more turnovers than they usually do (Nelson committed 5, averages 2.6; Wall committed 7, averages 4;  Nash committed 4; averages 3.4).  Not a perfect analysis for sure, but definitely food for thought while we watch Bradley going forward.

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