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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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9 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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9 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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10 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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Doc Rivers Compares Wes Welker’s Departure from Patriots to Ray Allen Leaving C’s

There aren’t too many coaches who are top of the local sports scene like Doc Rivers. Whether it be the Patriots, Red Sox, college basketball, a golf tournament, Rivers knows what’s going on and usually has a valuable opinion to share on it, making him a delight for the media to cover most days.

Last night was no different with the news that Wes Welker had chosen to leave New England and sign with the Denver Broncos. Rivers threw his two cents in on the move before the game against the Raptors, making a comparison to another tough situation with the C’s this summer.

“It’s hard to (keep teams together). We lost Ray Allen, it feels like, the same way (the Patriots) lost Wes. You wanted him and you did everything you could and somehow they go somewhere else. Just like we wanted Ray to stay, I know they wanted Wes to stay, and it just sometimes doesn’t work out. There’s too many other people involved. That’s what is great once everyone’s signed, it’s the coaches and the players and no one can get in your group. But once you get into free agency, a lot of other people get involved with decision-making that is outside of winning and losing, and that’s why I guess it’s called free agency. But it makes it tough.”

Rivers added a few additional thoughts in his interview with Dennis and Callahan on WEEI this morning (Via ESPNBoston.com)

* On being upset over the Wes Welker news on Wednesday: “Well I was just kind of playing around, but yeah I wasn’t happy with it. I like Wes, Wes is a big Celtics fan, so I do like that. But I hated to see him leave, number one, and hated to see him go to Denver, who I think in the near future will become a big rival.”

* On whether the Patriots losing Wes Welker felt like the Celtics losing Ray Allen: “Well it didn’t for me, but I’m sure it did for them. It’s far more personal for the Patriots, like Ray was far more personal for us, so I’m sure it did feel the same way.

Like the Celtics have been without Ray, chances are the Patriots will end up just fine without Wes, although it would have been nice to keep him.

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