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June 11th, 2009

A couple features today:

  • Mike Brown could be out in Cleveland?: There are reports of infighting in the Cleveland Cavaliers organization in the wake of their disappointing loss to Orlando in the Eastern Conference. And the consensus around the league is that Mike Brown was badly out-coached by Stan Van Gundy in the series. It’s a tough and unfair job; you are Coach of the Year after winning 66 regular season games. Plus you go 8-0 to start the playoffs and yet maybe you’re not the right guy for the job. [New York Daily News]
  • Heinsohn recieves achievement award from NBA: The NBA Coaches Association announced today that legendary Celtics player and coach Tommy Heinsohn will receive the inaugural “Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award.” The award carries on the memory of Hall of Fame coach Chuck Daly. [Globe]
  • Kapono could start for Sixers: With the Sixers looking to upgrade at shooting guard, it’s possible that Kapono, a 6-foot-8 swingman, could start opposite Andre Iguodala on the wing. “That’d be Eddie (Jordan’s) call in the preseason,” said Sixers president Ed Stefanski during Wednesday’s conference call. “Eddie’s thing is he can play both (shooting) guard and swing forward. We’re just happy to get a shooter of his ilk.”
    [Philly Burbs]
  • McHale likely to return as coach of Timberwolves: A little birdie says that if Kevin McHale remains the Timberwolves’ coach, which now seems likely, he’ll be required to hire a former NBA head coach as his top assistant for in-depth help. The Wolves will provide McHale with a list of candidates from whom to choose. [Twincities]

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Sunday morning links

May 31st, 2009

A couple features today:

  • Changing of a guard: Finally clean and sober, Herren ready to embrace his post-basketball life. The 33-year-old’s hopes of returning to the NBA or playing pro basketball anywhere in world are now basically dead. With his Massachusetts driver’s license expected to be suspended soon, the Fall River hoop legend had to give up his job repossessing cars recently and is seeking employment in tough economic times. And the ex-Celtics point guard also has a wife and three kids to support. [Globe]
  • Arizona prospect is hot stuff: there is one stellar prospect in their realm still trying to make a name for himself: Arizona forward Jordan Hill. Hill didn’t start playing organized basketball until the ninth grade and didn’t play in the 11th grade because of issues with his grades. The 6-foot-10-inch, 235-pounder signed with Arizona late in the recruiting game in 2006 after impressing coach Lute Olson at an AAU tournament. [Globe]
  • Celtics earn solid Pat on back: When model organizations are mentioned, it still may be a Patriots universe, but the Celtics walked off with a galaxy or two last week when they were named the 2009 Professional Sports Team of the Year by the SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily. [Herald]
  • Note to referees: NBA games are not about you: Dick Bavetta and Joey Crawford are among the biggest names in the NBA playoffs. But they are officiating the games, not playing in them. [Miami Herald]

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Tuesday Afternoon Links

May 19th, 2009

Celtics raise doubts about what’s possible: Questions, not banners: We always are looking for a bright side, and maybe this is it: At least no one will be gunning for them now. Teams will measure themselves against Cleveland or Orlando or maybe Los Angeles or Denver. When someone mentions the Big Three now, they will be referring to Dwight Howard and his biceps. [BostonHerald.com]

Celtics have big shopping list: Frontline a priority in busy offseason ahead: The day after his team was eliminated from the playoffs by Orlando, Danny Ainge was at work trying to get the Celtics [team stats] back to the Eastern Conference semifinals and beyond. While the vagaries of the marketplace make it difficult for the team’s executive director of basketball operations to know exactly what his roster will look like in four months, Ainge was fairly blunt when asked about his priorities this offseason. [BostonHerald.com]

Rivers on D&C: Pierce and Perkins Likely Need Surgeries, Hamstring Hampered Allen Against Magic: Celtics coach Doc Rivers, appearing on the Dennis & Callahan Show, said that shooting guard Ray Allen was hampered by a hamstring injury during the series against the Orlando Magic. “Ray had a hamstring problem throughout the Orlando series,” said Rivers. “In Ray’s case, I thought his hamstring was bothering him a lot. That could have had an effect on him.” Rivers also said that, in addition to the surgery that Kevin Garnett will require on his right knee, Kendrick Perkins likely will require a procedure on his injured shoulder, and that Paul Pierce “had some bone spurs that may need to be removed as well.” [WEEI.com]

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Thursday morning links

May 14th, 2009
  • Claude Julien, Doc Rivers earn high praise: Two of the area’s four big league teams are in the playoffs, and as we sit here, waiting for the drama to play out, one thing we don’t have to worry about is that either Claude or Doc will show up at work decked out in tri-cornered hats, life preservers and holding inflatable rubber duckies. Translation: Neither Claude nor Doc is going to allow the postseason to turn their brains to mush. [Boston Herald]
  • Uncorking excuses: That’s not all Van Gundy’s fault, but his best player tried to make it seem that way when he threw the coach under the bus and then backed up to make sure he got Van Gundy following the Celtics’ improbable 92-88 victory in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals at the Garden. [Herald]
  • Celts Seal a Gutty Win the 50-50 Way: The Celtics’ 92-88 Game 5 win over the Orlando Magic didn’t feature a lot of pretty basketball. The good guys’ basket seemed to be roughly the size of a keyhole for most of the contest. The fouls and jumping at head-fakes on both sides weren’t attractive. The Magic’s offensive execution (aided by a suddenly awakened Celtics defense) down the stretch was downright grisly. [Celtics Blog]

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Wednesday morning links

May 13th, 2009
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  • Rally in fourth allows Celtics to take advantage: Somehow this team continues to live by what it does in the last five minutes of a game, now needing just one win to reach the conference finals and an overly rested Cleveland team. But the C’s, so busy living minute to minute and basket to basket, haven’t lifted their heads long enough to notice. “Toughness – a lot of character,” said Glen Davis, who in the wake of his Game 4 game-winner in Orlando added to his celebrity by scoring 16 of his 22 points in the second half, including a 10-point fourth quarter. “When you go through trials and tribulations like that during the game, to come back and win like that is unbelievable. Our guys showed a lot of character.” [Herald]
  • Taking a shot proves worthy: Then, like a death row inmate finding religion on his walk to the chair, they finally located the Garden strings. After Stephon Marbury lit the path with 12 points in the first 6:05 of the final period, he stepped back and watched his mates score 13 unanswered points for a 92-88 win that wrote its own page in the Book of Celtic, which is a pretty hard tome to crack. [Herald]
  • Stephon Marbury is a star again: Last Saturday afternoon, Marbury stood in a hotel lobby in Orlando, Fla., and chatted for some time about many things. He talked about the long, hard year it’s been. He talked about what it meant to read Bill Russell’s defense of him in the New York Post. Then, at one point, he joked, “I haven’t got to the podium yet.” [Herald]
  • A Magical Collapse: There were five minutes left and the Celtics were down by 10 points when Doc Rivers put his starters back on the floor. It was, as he said later, “a gamble” because at the time the players who were doing the most on the court were Stephon Marbury and Eddie House. But if the Celtics were going to go down in their building they were going to go down with the ones who had brought them here. [WEEI.com]
  • Orlando Magic suffer historic collapse, fall to Boston Celtics: If you called this the most devastating loss in Orlando Magic history, I wouldn’t argue with you. If the Magic lose one of the next two games, this meltdown will go down with Nick Anderson’s missed free throws, Shaq’s departure and Fran Vazquez as some of the worst memories in the history of this franchise. [Orlando Magic Daily]

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