Danny Ainge strikes again with some unexpected trading of Celtics players. The biggest deal involved sending Kendrick Perkins and Nate Robinson to Oklahoma City for Jeff Green, Nenad Krstic and a first-round draft choice in 2012. Green was chosen with the pick traded to Seattle in the Ray Allen deal.
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So it happened. The exuberant joy that came with last week's announcement, that was killed by the weekend's news that it wasn't going to happen - you can let it all back in again. Adrian Gonzalez is coming to Fenway after all (we think), and the lineup is ready to be stacked.
After two straight losses, the Bruins lace up against the Florida Panthers. Tim Thomas (10-1-1, 1.49 GAA) should be in goal tonight. The biggest news related to the team involves a player not skating tonight: Marc Savard. ESPN reports Savard is 2-3 days away from playing in a game after being cleared for full-contact practices on Tuesday.
The Celtics host the New Jersey Nets in the Garden tonight. Rajon Rondo is out for the third straight game. It's the Nets, though. Nate Robinson starts instead.
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.
Nate Robinson could make a career of dunking on really large men. First, Dwight Howard. Now, he got Shaquille O'Neal at a recent practice with the Boston Celtics.
We've seen some surreal sights in our time as Boston sportswatchers. And honestly, we thought "Gagne getting a ring" would never be topped. But there we were last night, watching as Doc Rivers sent two and a half future Hall of Famers to the scorer's table, then called them back to the bench, in crunch time in the Finals, because he didn't want to take Glen Davis, Nate Robinson and Tony Allen off the floor.
Miami.Cleveland.Orlando.
For the second time in three seasons, the Boston Celtics have reached the NBA Finals. After taking a commanding 3-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals and staggering into the sixth game, the Celtics reasserted their playoff mojo with a 96-84 win that was way more decisive than a 12-point margin might indicate. The Celtics are off until Thursday when the Finals begin in L.A. or Phoenix. After beating the NBA's two best regular season teams, and getting beaten up by Bill Laimbeer Rick Mahorn Lex Luthor Dwight Howard and Orlando, - ask Glenn Davis, Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce, Rasheed Wallace, Marquis Daniels and his father - they need the time off.
The Celtics didn't make any rumored changes to the starting five and routed the Indiana Pacers 122-103. But, the bench and its 26 first-half points provided a spark to help the Celtics quickly open a first-half lead. At the end of the first quarter, Marquis Daniels scored a bucket, Nate Robinson buried a three-pointer and Glen Davis blocked a shot to put Boston up six, 29-23.
Where do you go after suffering what might be the worst loss in franchise history? (Hyperbole? How many other 5-52 teams have the Celtics ever lost to?) Do you give up on basketball? Walk the Earth like David Carradine and Jules Winnfield?
Nate Robinson is all about fresh starts and do overs and we're all about whatever it will take for the Celtics to get the job done. That said, we have to admit that there's something very Robinson-appropriate in the level of drama that comes with the new guy's Celtics debut tonight. At the Garden. Against the Knicks. Perhaps without the ailing Paul Pierce.
Sure, the Lakers were shorthanded, missing a future Hall-of-Famer whose basket beat the Celtics in Boston back in January. But the Celtics were shorthanded, too, with one backup PG en route to the Knicks and the new one on his way to join the team out West. So the C's sympathize.
Eddie House knows how this goes.
You don't play on eight teams in ten years without understanding the business. You don't spend the early part of your career getting waived by chumps like the Bucks and Bobcats, only to find yourself a key rotation guy on a championship team, without realizing that basketball is a crazy world. And since he seems to internalized the fact that he'll be a Knick later today - "I have friends that I will have for the rest of my life on this team, but it’s life. It’s not the end of the world" - we're glad he's OK with it. Since we're still not sure if we are or not.
We're not the biggest Japanese-movie-monster buffs in the world, but we honestly can't remember an entry in the series when the monster got to go home early because Tokyo didn't even make a token effort to defend itself. But Ghidorah was sent to the bench early last night; the "Big Three" were no longer needed amid the Celtics' utter annihilation of the listless Knicks last night. It was a 23-point lead at halftime, and when...
Let's just set aside the Celtics current troubles and cheer for Gerald Green, who won the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk contest with skill and some serious showmanship. Green needed to be flashy because the All-Star events were already set in the shiny, sparkly city of Las Vegas, and he lived up to the landscape. With Paul Pierce as his set-up man, Green competed against Orlando's Dwight Howard, Chicago's Tyrus Thomas, and last year's winner, Nate...
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