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Celtics New Year’s Resolutions

By ⋅ January 4, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

New Years’ resolutions are surely swirling inside everyone’s minds, and the Celtics should definitely be thinking of their own resolutions to rectify their, thus far, lackluster season. As the halfway point of the NBA regular season fast approaches, the Celtics are undoubtedly in dire need of some improvements. Paul Pierce’s Resolution: Keep up a High [...]

Celtics Fall to Grizzlies as Avery Bradley Returns

By ⋅ January 3, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

The Boston Celtics continued their recent struggles last night and fell to the Memphis Grizzlies, 93-83. The loss was the fourth in a row for the Celtics, who are now three games under a five-hundred. Old Celtic friend, Tony Allen, proved to be the key to the Memphis victory as he had a season-high 15 [...]

Rondo Returns, Celtics Fall Two Games Below .500 as Kings’ Cousins Notches Triple-Double

By ⋅ December 31, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Boston Celtics finished their four-game road trip on Sunday night with a disappointing outing against the now 11-19 Sacramento Kings. The 118-96 loss was the third straight loss for the C’s by 18 or more points. Jeff Green and Jason Terry both had huge scoring games after being inconsistent during the 1-3 road trip. [...]

Celtics Fall to the Red Hot Clippers, 106-77

By ⋅ December 28, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Boston Celtics continued their recent struggles last night as they fell to the 23-6 Los Angeles Clippers, 106-77, at the Staples Center. From the start of the game, the Clippers dominated the Celtics in all aspects of the game. Led by a balanced scoring attack from Blake Griffin (16), Caron Butler (14), Jamal Crawford [...]

Celtics West Coast Road Trip: Preview the Opponents

By ⋅ December 27, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

With their Christmas Day beat down of the Brooklyn Nets behind them, a Boston Celtics team in need of some serious momentum heads west to begin a three game West Coast swing. They will face the red-hot Los Angeles Clippers, an up-and-coming Golden State Warriors squad, and the perennial underdogs of California, the Sacramento Kings. Here’s a [...]

NBA Experts Forecast “End of Era” For Celtics (Again)

By ⋅ December 22, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Wednesday morning, the NBA.com Blogtable posed a question to five basketball experts: Have we seen the last of these Celtics as a title contender? The answer, on all five counts, was a resounding, confident yes. That’s right, the same Boston Celtics team that rode three starters and Ray Allen’s bum ankles to the seventh game [...]

Celtics Backcourt Coming Together Key

By ⋅ December 21, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The Boston Celtics split two games without Rajon Rondo and are now 5-5 since his return from a two-game suspension. Despite Rondo’s desire to put an end to Boston’s inconsistent play and “run off eight or nine games straight,” it is Doc Rivers’ assertion that the Celtics are “a .500 team” that has prevailed so [...]

Pierce, Celtics Rebound From Road Trip with Rout of Cavs

By ⋅ December 19, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Paul Pierce scored a season-high 40 points on a staggeringly efficient 13-for-16 from the field as the Celtics ended their three-game losing streak with a 103-91 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Pierce also had 8 rebounds and 5 assists, and Rajon Rondo added 20 point and 8 assists for a Celtics’ team that didn’t arrive [...]

Rondo, Celtics Fall to .500 With Loss to Bulls

By ⋅ December 19, 2012 ⋅ One comment

The Boston Celtics lost their third straight contest and fell to 12-12 on the season with a 100-89 loss to the Chicago Bulls at the United Center on Tuesday. The Celtics made it interesting in the third quarter thanks to their point guard Rajon Rondo, who finished with 26 points and 8 rebounds, but the [...]

Rondo Shows Potential to be a Future Hall of Famer

By ⋅ December 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

At 26 years old and a mere six years into his professional career, Boston Celtics’ point guard Rajon Rondo is already being considered a future candidate for the Basketball Hall of Fame. While averaging 13 points and 12.8 assists per game, and beginning the 2012-2013 regular season with 12 double-doubles is impressive, Rondo’s hot temper [...]

Rondo, Pierce Lead Celtics in Loss to Harden and Rockets

By ⋅ December 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Rajon Rondo and Paul Pierce led the Celtics in all categories good and bad as the Celtics dropped the first of their three game road trip, 101-89, to the Rockets on Friday. James Harden had 21 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists and Chandler Parsons had a near triple-double with 15 points, 8 assists and [...]

Time to Rewrite The Truth About Paul Pierce?

By ⋅ December 13, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Ever since being drafted 10th overall by the Celtics back in 1998, Paul Pierce has been “the guy” in Boston. The closer. The Captain. The Truth. Even when he wasn’t the only All-Star on the C’s, whether in his early days of sharing the floor with Antoine Walker or with the recent reincarnation of the [...]

Looking Ahead at the Celtics December 2012 Schedule

By ⋅ December 9, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

With the first full month of the Celtic’s 2012-2013 season behind them, Boston holds a middling 11-9 record. At this point the Celtics are still — to put it lightly — a work in progress. A busy December schedule will be a pivotal step in Boston’s march toward a top playoff seed. The Story So [...]

Rondo Averages Triple-Double as Celtics Split Home-and-Home with 76ers

By ⋅ December 8, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

It felt a bit like a baseball series. The Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers, 92-79, on Saturday in Boston, a night after losing to them by one in overtime in Philadelphia, 95-94. Rajon Rondo averaged a triple-double in the two contests with 11.5 points, 12.5 assists, and 11 rebounds per game. Rondo also recorded 6 [...]

SoB NBA Eastern Conference Power Rankings: Knicks No Joke

By ⋅ December 8, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s the weekly semi-regular edition of the SoB NBA Eastern Conference Power Rankings! I can’t keep typing that out every week, so if someone out there in cyberspace has a catchy title for this column, by all means let me know in the comments. Let’s check back in with our Eastern Conference brethren to see [...]

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