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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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5 Questions With Jerryd Bayless

I talked with former lottery pick and Toronto guard Jerryd Bayless prior to tonight’s Celtics-Raptors game at the TD Garden.  Here is what the 23 year old Arizona product had to say.

1. With Bargnani being out, and you being healthy now, do you feel like this is an opportunity to establish yourself more as a scorer?

Bayless: I’m actually not starting tonight, but it was.  It’s just different.  I think at times we’ve had trouble scoring without Andrea, and coach wanted to put me in to try and put a couple more points on the board. 

2. Is that frustrating, starting some nights then coming off the bench.  Would you rather have a more defined role?

Bayless: It is what it is, I got to play through and do whatever I can to help this team. You know whatever that is, I’m willing to do.

3. You came up with an incredible high school class and you were one of the best, everyone knows you have the talent.  Do you see the success of guys like Derrick Rose, Kevin Love, and Eric Gordon, and think that if you were in a different spot you’d have the same success?

Bayless: I couldn’t be happier about where I am right now.  I love being in Toronto.  I’m just happy to be here.  Everything happens for a reason, and whatever happens, happens. 

4. You more comfortable in the NBA playing the point or off the ball?

Bayless:  I am 100 times more comfortable playing the point.  Playing off the ball is different for me.   

5. What is like matching up against Rajon Rondo?

Bayless: Rondo is a really good player.  You got to try to keep him out of the paint, he makes everyone around him better, and that’s the hardest part about it.  But you got to try and just do the best you can. 

BONUS QUESTION

Who you got in the Super Bowl?

Bayless:  Patriots.

Rich Keefe is the Celtics Reporter for 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston.  You can follow him on twitter: @Keefe21

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