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Terrence Williams Arrested on Gun Charges, Following Domestic Dispute

Terrence Williams was on the verge of coming back to the Boston Celtics next season after being one of the few bright spots of the Celtics’ postseason. Now, that journey is just an afterthought. According to a report from the Kent Reporter, a newspaper in Williams’ home state of Washington, the point guard was arrested yesterday [...]

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7 days ago

Kevin Garnett Will Avoid Foot Surgery

As we await Kevin Garnett’s decision about whether or not he will play a 7th season with the Boston Celtics, an important physical limitation has been avoided for the big man. After laboring through the last couple months of the season with a foot/ankle injury, which caused him to miss much of the regular season, [...]

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8 days ago

Danny Ainge is Waiting on Talking Future with Kevin Garnett

Yesterday was a good day in Boston. We found out Doc Rivers would definitely be coming back as a head coach, the Bruins won in overtime, and the Sox had a big comeback as well. As the first big decision of the Celtics offseason came in though, a brighter light begins to shine down now [...]

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9 days ago

Jeff Green’s 2012-13 Final Grade

Unless we’re discussing the eight or nine best players in the world, it’s impossible to separate a contract’s price from a player’s expectations, value, and overall performance. Jeff Green is the manifestation of this theory. In August he was guaranteed $36 million over four years, even though he didn’t play a single game during the [...]

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10 days ago

Painful Reminders (Part I): The Celtics Drafted JaJuan Johnson Instead of Jimmy Butler

On June 23rd, 2011, Brian Robb and I stood around a high top bar table in Tommy Doyle’s in Kendall Square.  Before us lay one of the biggest mounds of buffalo chicken wings I had ever endeavor to make disappear.  These 25 cent flappers- one of the few indulgences afforded to the participants of our [...]

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10 days ago

Chris Wilcox: 2012-13 Final Grade

There are a number of contextually-appropriate ways to craft this post. One would be to forgo words entirely, and represent Chris Wilcox’s entire season with a series of videos. That would involve one part of this: For every eight parts of this: Note the headline on that second clip. Someone was so amused/enraged by Wilcox’s [...]

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Obliterated: Celtics 96, Kings 118

The Celtics are a bad basketball team.

In years past, the Celtics have played poorly, taken games off, and had bad losses. In the end, however, they still beat really good teams and took care of most of them bad ones. It was more about how the Celtics were pacing themselves because they had old legs. Or the Celtics just didn’t respect their opponent and in the end it didn’t matter because they would be in the playoffs and other teams wouldn’t be.

This year is completely different. The Celtics can’t defend. They can’t score. They can’t keep up with young teams despite the addition of young, athletic players like Courtney Lee and Jeff Green. They have absolutely zero identity. They started the year trying to go small in order to compete with the Miami Heat and were woefully unsuccessful, so now they’re trying to go big by inserting Jason Collins into the starting lineup and moving Kevin Garnett back to the power forward position. It’s not working.

The Celtics have so many weaknesses- so many holes- it’s hard to know how to begin to suggest fixes. Take tonight’s loss for example. The Celtics are supposed to be able to protect the rim and they gave up 56 points in the paint. 12 of those points were scored by Isaiah Thomas, who’s generously listed at 5’9″. The Celtics couldn’t defend the three point line, allowing the Kings to shoot 50% from beyond the arc.

This road trip makes it seem like this team is lottery bound with a band of players that you can’t even sell off. There aren’t enough contenders out there willing to give up future firsts for players who play like the Celtics did on this road trip.

That’s it for now. Grades tomorrow. Spoiler alert: they will not be flattering.

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