Let's say you're going to the Celtics-Timberwolves game tonight. If you're like most of the people at Celtics games these days, chances are you weren't there last year. Which is perfectly legal on your part. But there's something you should know. Most of the Timberwolves played here last year, during that long, miserable 06-07 campaign, and several of them - promising, hardworking youngsters for the most part - were sent away to make room for......

We're the most starry-eyed, green-Kool-Aid-guzzling optimists anywhere, but even we never thought it would be this good, this fast. Even on a night when two-thirds of Ghidorah wasn't quite up to snuff (Ray Allen 4-for-14, Kevin Garnett missing his usual double-double), the Celtics still had enough to put the clamps on Jersey and win their seventh straight. Any time you defensively hold a team to 69 points and 33% shooting, you're doing something right. And......

Celtics, 84 vs. Indiana Pacers, 97 – Perhaps the play was less "selfish," but the outcome wasn't any better when the Celtics were up against Jermaine O'Neal and Jamaal Tinsley. And Tony Allen, the go-to-guy of the moment, got hurt. This means everyone got hurt. Doc Rivers is even more down in the mouth: "This is just terrible. Tony (Allen) is probably an ACL. Tony's injury really hurt us, obviously. Not just because of his......