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The Boston Business Journal ranks Boston's richest athletes. Kevin Garnett leads the way with an $18.8 million salary in 2010-2011. Red Sox Josh Beckett ($17 million), John Lackey ($16 million), Carl Crawford ($14.9 million), and J.D. Drew ($14 million) round out the top five. The Bruins, you know the team playing for a title, pay Zdeno Chara $7.5 million and that makes him #14. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The whole season is on the line today for the Celtics. After losing 98-90 in overtime to the Heat on Wednesday to fall behind 3-1 in the series, Boston is in Miami tonight and faces the first of three elimination games.
Rajon Rondo is currently in possession of the most scrutinized elbow in the NBA, and an MRI today proved the elbow is not broken. Doc Rivers said he's assuming Rondo will be in action tonight in game four against Miami. How effective he'll be is a different matter.
The Celtics victory over the Heat Saturday was quite impressive for a few reasons. Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett turned in dominating performances with their team's season in the balance. The fact of two star players delivering in the clutch is being overshadowed by Rajon Rondo's gutsy return from a ghastly elbow dislocation that looked like a season-ending injury. And Garnett said Rondo inspired them. "He showed a lot of heart, a lot of grit," he said. "And we followed that lead."
With an injection of grit from Rajon Rondo into an absolutely withering defensive effort, the Celtics stopped the Miami Heat juggernaut in its tracks with a memorable 97-81 victory last night to win their first game in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
While tonight's game isn't technically a must win, the Celtics won't win the series without winning game three.
The Celtics completed their four-game sweep of the Knicks with a 101-89 decision on Sunday at Madison Square Garden. Boston led 55-38 at the half and stretched their lead to 23 points in the third before New York surged back. The score closed to 84-80 in the fourth before the Celtics put the Knicks away.
The closing minute of the Celtics 96-93 victory over the Knicks in game two of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals was Kevin Garnett's time. Garnett scored two baskets in the final minute and made a game-saving steal with 4.1 seconds left in the game to put the green up 2-0. Garnett finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Depite losing Shaquille O'Neal to a calf injury in the first half, the Celtics crushed Detroit in the second half for a 101-90 decision over the Pistons. The Green led 49-48 at the half and put the game away in the third by outscoring Detroit 33-18.
The guys in green - okay, white - were "reddy" for the Knicks. No, we still know how to spell ready here at Bostonist. However, Ray Allen was bloodied in the Celtics 96-86 comeback win over the Knicks. Michael Capuano must be smiling somewhere.
Now that a couple of days have passed since Danny Ainge reshaped the roster of the Celtics, perhaps the team can be able to focus on basketball. They admitted the trades made at the trading deadline, epecially the stunning deal that shipped Kendrick Perkins to Denver, made Thursday's game a hard one to handle.
Rajon Rondo was in a giving mood on Tuesday with 15 assists and 19 points to power the Green Machine past the Golden State Warriors 115-93 Tuesday. The C's 55-33 second-half surge broke open a 60-60 game at the half. Kevin Garnett led all scorers with 24 points and 12 rebounds. Paul Pierce added 23 points.
The Boston Celtics haven't gone Hollywood, but they showed true grit by beating the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday 109-96. With their emotional leader, Kevin Garnett, bloodied and then bandaged from Pau Gasol's elbow, and the Lakers ahead (54-50) at the half, the Celtics responded with a 59-42 second-half rout of the Lakers.
Kevin Garnett is kind of intense. You've noticed his usual verbal stylings on court. He's extending his attitude to his shoes. Shortly, out in L.A., KG will debut a shoe specifically targeted for the Celtics-Lakers rivalry. The shoe prominently features the Celtics all-time record (152-120) against the Lakers. Kobe will love it. Ron Artest will need to visit his shrink.
We admit our headline could be an inaccurate summary of the Celtics 88-71 loss to Phoenix last night. They didn't lose on a technicality. Their loss, which featured an incomprehensible six technical fouls from a surprisingly out-of-synch team, was really a total no-show. Perhaps they overlooked the Suns as the Celtics meet the Lakers on Sunday.
Bruins start slow and win; Celtics start fast and lose Aside from a sluggish start, the Bruins thoroughly outplayed the Colorado Avalanche en route to a one-sided 6-2 win, their third in four games. The Celtics' five-game winning streak came to a sudden halt as they gave away a winnable game to the Washington Wizards, 85-83, on Saturday.
On Monday afternoon, the Bruins racked up the seven points the Pats were looking for during the final minutes of play at Gillette the day before.
The Celtics host the Orlando Magic in short order tonight and they're going for their third straight win. Kevin Garnett returns after a leg injury benched him since December 29. After nine games out, Doc Rivers says KG will start and has no restrictions. Orlando beat Boston on Christmas Day, 86-78, and is 9-2 in their last 11 games. Shaquille O'Neal starts, too.
The Celtics dispensed with the Toronto Raptors early, taking a 67-45 lead at the half and finishing with a 122-102 win, the 3,000th franchise victory. Luke Harangody had his best game as a pro, finishing with 17 points and 11 rebounds. Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 20 points in just three quarters of action. Ray Allen added 17 points and three three-pointers.
Kevin Garnett is out for today's game against the New Orleans Hornets. We knew that. Rajon Rondo is still out today, too, with his sore ankle. So, good luck, Celtics! Go, Shaq!
A disappointing loss in December to a crappy Detroit Pistons squad - crappy is generous - is not a devastating to the 24-6 Boston Celtics in 2010. Doc Rivers gave credit to the Pistons, who led at the end of each quarter, for the 104-92 result. He said it wasn't the green's night. "We just didn’t have it in us today. That happens," Rivers said.
The Bruins also stayed in the win column for a third straight game thanks to Mark Recchi's late power-play goal. Recchi scored with just 20 seconds left to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 4-3, on Tuesday.
Something had to give last night at the TD Garden in a game between the Bruins and the Capitals, two teams stuck in losing streaks. The Bruins, who built a 3-0 lead in the first period, held off a fierce Caps surge in the third for a 3-2 win. Boston stopped a three-game losing streak. Washington hasn't won in eight games (0-6-2) and dropped out of first place.
After the game, Celtics radio announcer Sean Grande said it best. Paraphrasing a little, he said good teams win "sexy" matchups like the one in New York on Wednesday. But great teams win the next night, too, on the second night of a back-to-back when everyone's tired and 40% of your starting lineup is out.
We might never know why the Celtics almost gave a game away just days after actually giving away a game to on Sunday. Boston escaped with a 110-101 win over Toronto Friday, despite a 34-24 fourth quarter deficit. The Celtics led by 19 after three quarters thanks to two of their bigger and better players. Kevin Garnett led all scorers 26 points and 11 rebounds, and Shaquille O'Neal added 16 points and nine rebounds.
There is no NBA center who wants to be compared to a statue. Except Shaquille O'Neal on a day off. Shaq made good on a promise to be a statue for almost an hour in Harvard Square on Thursday.
The Boston Bruins are still in the NHL and today's game against New Jersey proves it. They had five days to get reacclimated to Boston after splitting two games in Prague.
Let's take what we can out of this. Since we knew that the refereeing crew was about as bad as it will ever get (they reviewed three plays in the fourth quarter and learned all of them were wrong, now extrapolate that to the 650 calls they make or don't make over the course of the game and we're going to stop now because we're making the exact same face as Kevin Garnett seen here and we're just going to start this paragraph all over again.)