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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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9 days ago

Danny Ainge is Waiting on Talking Future with Kevin Garnett

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10 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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11 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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Belinelli’d!? Celtics 100, Bulls 99

Chicago Bulls 100 Final

Recap | Box Score

99 Boston Celtics

Five Things We Saw

  1. The Celtics missed Avery Bradley tonight. Rip Hamilton had a field day against Jason Terry, Leandro Barbosa and Rajon Rondo, drawing fouls and using his superior height to his advantage. Had Bradley been available, Rip would have surely been limited.
  2. This one stings. The Celtics still lost despite benefitting from Luol Deng leaving the game early after re-aggravating his bothersome hamstring. Deng was pretty ineffective all game, and had he been healthy this game could have easily been a blood bath.
  3. The Celtics almost escaped tonight. Make no mistake about it. It took a superhuman offensive performance from Rondo, and Kevin Garnett and Jared Sullinger playing the whole fourth quarter for the C’s to almost pull this one out.
  4. Carlos Boozer played MVP level basketball through three quarters and disappeared in the fourth. His only point came on a free throw from a very questionable foul call on Paul Pierce with 22.5 left. I think his stumble in the fourth quarter was due in part to cooling off and not going against Brandon Bass. The combination of KG and Sullinger on defense in the fourth was reminiscent of Zdeno Chara and Johnny Boychuk pairing (god, I am so happy hockey is back.).
  5. The officiating was just AWFUL tonight. To qualify: the refs didn’t favor one side over the other. They just continuously made one bad call after the other. The litany includes: the Pierce/Noah jumpball (italize), the out of bounds call on Rondo that was overturned, the Nate Robinson phantom foul. To make matters worse, it seemed like every blown whistle was momentum stifling. Overtime notwithstanding, when three players foul out and one player has 5 personal fouls, the game is not being officiated properly.

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