Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2009 View Comments
As soon as Jason Maxiell missed both free throws after Kendrick Perkins’ flagrant foul — unsurprisingly Perk got tossed — you had the feeling it just wasn’t Detroit’s night. Oh and that alley-oop from Rondo to Garnett out of a timeout in the fourth quarter? Once again a thing of beauty… Make that 10 straight [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2009 View Comments
Ray Allen didn’t make the East All-Star team as a reserve despite shooting a career best 50.3 percent from the field and averaging 18 points per game so far this season. That’s more than a point better per game than reserve Jameer Nelson (16.9 ppg) by the way. Paul Pierce did get the call though. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2009 View Comments
Damon Blust, who appeared at games as “Lucky the Leprechaun”, is no longer employed by the team. More on that here and here. While most fans over the age of 13 probably don’t care, little kids definitely got a kick out of him. A co-worker recently lamented that his son couldn’t find him at a [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2009 View Comments
Eddie House is on fire. He’s hit 22 treys over his past four games. That red, white and blue Money Ball would look pretty good in his hands in a few weeks.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2009 View Comments
Celtics vs. Kings
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2009 View Comments
Brian Scalabrine says he’ll be out for a week 10 days with a concussion. “I’m not really concerned,” he said. “I’m really not concerned. As athletes, we always just think we’ll just bounce back and nothing will happen again. “My wife says she was concerned about my intelligence level though.” Tony Allen will likely see [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2009 View Comments
Brian Scalabrine suffered a mild concussion at practice today, his second in three days. “I don’t know if he was out (cold), but he was close,” coach Doc Rivers said of Scalabrine, whose noggin first took a beating against Dallas Sunday. “He’ll be out, probably, for quite some time because of that. ” Doc claims [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2009 View Comments
Stephon Marbury is kinda looney, eh? Click here to find out more. Irregahdless, it would be interesting to see him in a Celtics uniform. In theory. UPDATE: Here’s the Celtics’ rebuttal.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2009 View Comments
Us reporters are really pleasant folks. After the final buzzer sounded yesterday, one Dallas-based reporter turned to another in the TD Banknorth Garden press room. “Let’s go autopsy the corpse.” Anyway, here’s my take from the blowout. It’s about Rajon Rondo. So here goes: BOSTON — So what if his jump shot is as soft [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2009 View Comments
The headline is courtesy of the guy sitting behind me, who apparently is the treasurer of the Eddie House Fan Club. Mr. Ed has eight points. Somehow, the Celtics have improved their torrid shooting this quarter. It was 66.7 percent in the first, as of 4:04 in the second, it’s 68.4. They’re 9 of 11 [...]
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