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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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Paul Pierce Thinks Kobe Bryant Is Getting Special Treatment

Paul Pierce is not particularly fond of Kobe Bryant. Being natural rivals for about 15 years will do that. Yet, Paul has had about enough of this “dirty play” talk concerning Dahntay Jones’ defense on Kobe in the closing seconds of the Lakers loss to the Hawks last week. In case you’ve been living under a rock the past couple days, here is the play in question.

The NBA released a statement yesterday saying there should have been a foul called on the play. Pierce, when prompted, was having none of that. In fact, he’s thinking the whole situation is being overblown for one reason alone.

“I think it got kind of blown out of proportion. I thought [Dhantay Jones] put his hands up, [Kobe] got into the defender. I mean the fact it’s Kobe Bryant, it’s an issue. I mean if it was somebody else, we wouldn’t even be talking about this today.”

Just add a little more fuel to the rivalry folks. Pierce had a couple other gems at practice today as well.

On Winning the Atlantic Division: “I’m sure if we hung Atlantic Division banners up here, we’d be looking a lot more closely at them. Right now, we are floating under the radar, try to win as many games as possible. Play well going into the playoffs. I’m sure these guys….I don’t even know how many games we have left to get into the Atlantic Division. We don’t even get a t-shirt for that.”

On the Heat’s winning streak: “I really don’t even care. I hope they lose every game the rest of the season.”

The Truth brought plenty of heat in his press conference. He’s confident and loose right now. Stay tuned folks.

 

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