Quiet around here. Paul Pierce and Ray Allen won’t be playing in tonight’s regular season finale. Rajon Rondo will see limited action. No shocker there.
Kevin Garnett’s status for the playoffs remains in the same ambiguous place.
“He’ll play,” coach Doc Rivers said.
But, he hedged that bet with this statement:
“If we don’t like what we see (at practice Thursday), he won’t. We don’t know how it’s going to turn out tomorrow.”
That’s the bit of (no) news for the evening.
Allen addressed his one-game suspension for elbowing Cleveland’s Anderson Varejao , um, where the sun don’t shine.
“I was upset. I needed an explanation,” he said. “I talked to NBA discipline guru Stu Jackson and really didn’t give me a great explanation, at least one I thought rationalized why I was suspended.”
Allen essentially said he was just protecting himself. Although he was docked $170K — yeesh, that’s one game’s pay? — it’s kind of a moot point by now.
The C’s will know their first-round opponent by the end of the evening…
