CELTICS 2010

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i might actually try to follow the regular season this year, pending my tv/cable status

yeah seriously considering ponying up for a league pass

yes doing this, keep in mind dudes that THERE IS NO FUTURE ONLY NOW (ie lockout 2011)

also re pic, can't tell if docs face is a) oh lord what have we done pls accelerate perkins' rehab with hyperbaric cheese chambers or b) f all yall miami etc we gots the DIESEL now

lol 36 is a terrible number

shaq looks animatronic imo

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feel like this is all some elaborate joke

the LeDecision, celtics getting shaq, kobe winning the mvp while shooting 6/24, kevin durants twitter is all somehow tied together leading up to david stern announcing hes bought an applebees franchise or something and its gonna be the best applebees ever

yes doing this, keep in mind dudes that THERE IS NO FUTURE ONLY NOW (ie lockout 2011) the celtics do not care at all about the regular season and will only frustrate and depress you

― enjoy your day (agent hibachi), Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

and the playoffs will not make the season seem worth it, it will only depress you further for having sat thru their regular season nonsense

lol what the 2010 playoffs were totally worth it

no i only made u depressed further

it

stop telling ppl how depressed they are

i may become a celtics fan this season

diagnosis: depressed

:(

remember when they knocked out the skeet in the first round this year i do

bowtie is a nice touch for press conference attire.

this year will be fantastic.

Shaq is all smiles because he will earn a few more million dollars for doing little odd jobs here and there. Doc looks grimly serious because Shaq has just executed a cannonball into Doc's swimming pool and now only half the water is left in the pool.

jordan u forgot one crucial point that i dont have to watch rasheed power-walk from 3 pt line to 3 pt line thus the regular season will be less depressing. i know what to expect from fat shaq and he is really fourth/fifth big man on the depth chart and at a min salary and somehow that's less depressing

for real though i think cs will be energized by the finals run and ready for vengeance. injuries were big last year too

clincher is that league pass also means i can watch okc all the time if all else fails

clincher is that league pass also means i can watch okc all the time if all else fails

Was thinking this exact same thing today.

Shaq is all smiles because he will earn a few more million dollars for doing little odd jobs here and there.

this i don't believe. i think o'neal is desperately concerned with going out on a super high note -- preferably by beating bryant in the finals. he could have signed for more money elsewhere. not that i think he's likely to put boston over-the-top at this stage of his career, but whatevs.

i hope he wears the bowtie during games, is all i hope.

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green eyes

get well perkinstein! i like him

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looking for a amen

will shaq playing for the Celtics in anyway hinder the chances of his jersey hanging in the rafters at Staples?

perkinstein, hadn't heard that one haha. shaq is on the boston celtics btw not sure if ya'll heard

man his twitter better blow up this season

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perkinstein, hadn't heard that one haha

im not messing with perkins. i like him

i'd push the big 3 down some stairs dont get me wrong

Then throw big baby down on top of'em

are these pre-emptively strikes against some trash-talking c's fans that haven't arrived yet or

ly

I don't get the potshots and hatred; C's fans aren't parasitical cancers like Lakers' fans.

oh GOODNESS i came here as a peace offering and now im a barnacle or some shit

'ez snappin' is scandalized by a little bored schtick BRA-VOE

aerosol really hates you all tbf

that orlando shirt is lol

needs reposting

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BRIDE OF PERKINSTEIN

aw

shaq to solidify celtics:

BOSTON — NBA analyst David Aldridge said Wednesday that with the addition of Shaquille O'Neal, the Celtics have vastly improved their chances of leading the league in three-second lane violations for the 2010–2011 season. "Not only does Shaq's presence in the paint give his team more opportunities to turn the ball over, but the Celtics have also added an experienced big man who makes an already old team significantly older," said Aldridge, adding that O'Neal should fill a key role in terms of drastically slowing down the Celtics' offense. "Danny Ainge was looking for someone with size who can't make it down to the other end of the court, and he went out and got the best in the business." Aldridge added that while O'Neal isn't the dominant force he once was, he believes Shaq still has a thing or two to teach teams who think it's a good idea to sign him.

He may not entirely solidify the C's, but he can add a lot of viscosity.

hahahahaaha guys i just realized, shaq is really fat!

on paper and based on my faded memories of his great prime years, boston signing shaq sounds like a very good move. then, you read stuff like this:

SamAmicoNBA Shaq on Mo: "Guys who couldn't even play were worried about shots. Why was Mo (Williams) taking 15 shots, and I'm only taking four?"

if o'neal is complaining about his shots on a 66-win team featuring lebron james, i'm not convinced he'll all of a sudden be a good team player in boston. i imagine if he could work well anywhere, it would be there, given the quality character guys leading the team, but still . . .

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RIP

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almost felt bad for scal w/the intensely patronizing fan appresh, almost

he'll get over it

Perkins, who will turn 24 next season, is too young to remember when Shaq was a productive basketball player. When asked if he has seen any tapes of Shaqs days with the Magic, Lakers, or Heat Perkins replied “no . . . I don’t own a VCR.”

lol

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shaq's son is out of control

broken link image rip

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http://www.talkhoops.net/2010-articles/september/i-will-always-heart-kg-reason-281.html

There's a lot to like about KG, but I wish to god he'd woof less at his opponents and refs and let his play do more of the talking. Too dickish from my pov.

Woofing at his teammates is ok in my book, though.

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lolthefaces

it looks like he's with his kids

he's obv. fitting into the system well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZYBqSTD9VI

should of worn those masks in game 7. they'd be defending world champions today.

guys...you need to watch this video

jumping back in here. really enjoying the pics and videos posted.

perk's marriage looks a keeper

This just made my morning (stole it from the "Living on a Prayer" thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoC4yWWxFGs

rivers v. thibodeau tonite!

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nba/news/story?id=5870869

wicked awesome

win streak fuk u all ashfjfnfc cmdmllv

note to kg's mri: pls be nice

they will prob just lie abt it if its not

KG's injury not only reason for concern
By John Hollinger

Kevin Garnett's health is obviously first and foremost on the minds of Boston Celtics fans right now. It goes without saying that a long-term injury to the superstar power forward would be devastating to the Celtics' title hopes.

But a more insidious foe also may be a factor for them during the final two-thirds of the season: the law of averages. Statistically, it will be very difficult for Boston to maintain its offensive performance, even allowing for the fact that it has been short-handed on several nights.

It's an odd conclusion to reach because Boston isn't primarily an offensive team; the Celtics are only 10th in offensive efficiency. It's their top-ranked defense that's carried the mail for them in their torrid 24-6 start.

Nonetheless, the offense perhaps bears greater scrutiny as we test whether the Celtics' play can continue throughout the season's final 52 games, because in one respect Boston has been flukishly amazing.

Let's start at the top. The Celtics are one of the league's most unusual offensive teams -- they take fewer shots than nearly everyone else, and they make a higher percentage of them than everyone else. In fact, their field goal percentage of 50.2 is more than 2 percentage points higher than that of any other team this season; what's more, it's the second-best shooting percentage of the past decade.

On the flip side, while although the Celtics have lowered the obscenely high turnover rate of seasons past, their lack of second shots remains phenomenal. Despite enviable size, Boston ranks last in offensive rebound rate. The Celtics claim only 21.0 percent of their missed shots, and as a result, only the woebegone Charlotte Bobcats attempt fewer shots per possessions. (I define "shots" here to include free throw attempts.)

That's just par for the course so far; Boston was last in the NBA in shots per possession last season.

But the other part of the equation is that Boston is not only first in overall shooting percentage, as noted, but also first in true shooting percentage at 57.3, beating out even the likes of Phoenix and New York, both of which are known for their propensity to launch 3-pointers (which improve their true shooting percentage).

Delve a little deeper, and it gets more surprising. Boston doesn't get a huge bump from 3-pointers or free throws; the Celtics just are amazingly accurate inside the arc. The Celtics' 52.9 percent shooting on 2-pointers dwarfs the league average of 48.2 percent and is actually a major improvement on their league-leading performance of last season.

In 2009-10, despite what was largely seen as a disappointing regular season, Boston finished 3.1 percentage points ahead of the league average in 2-point shooting. This season's performance, at 4.7 points ahead, is an even greater outlier.

If you're wondering, that continued even without Garnett on Wednesday night: Boston hit 52.8 percent of its 2s against the Pistons -- but lost to Detroit because it couldn't miss.

(By the way, for those of you Celtics fans bewildered by Tracy McGrady's performance Wednesday night, he's been showing signs of re-emergence lately. In some games, like the one Wednesday night or a week ago against Toronto, he's been brilliant, almost like the T-Mac of old. In others, as against Charlotte, he's seemed dead-legged. Methinks the knees aren't there for him every night, but when they are, he can still bring it.)

OK, so they make a lot of 2s. What's the big deal?

It's this: Two-point field goal percentage is one of the flukiest stats in basketball. One can see huge random variances in this stat from month to month and even from year to year, and they aren't necessarily meaningful.

Applying it to Boston's case, it's easy to be suspicious of its ability to keep shooting so well. Boston's top 2-point shooter from last season, Kendrick Perkins, hasn't played a game this season, yet the Celtics have dramatically increased their advantage on the rest of the league in this category. Although Shaquille O'Neal's addition has been very helpful in this area, Perkins actually shot better on 2s than Shaq did last season. Now O'Neal has upped his percentage to career-high levels in green.

He's not the only one. Paul Pierce, Glen Davis, Nate Robinson, Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo all have increased their 2-point percentages from last season, which is very odd to see this early in the season. Leaguewide, shooting percentages normally gently rise as the season goes on, which means most players will be slightly below their career norms in late December. But of the Celtics' seven most frequent shooters, only Ray Allen is making 2s at a lower clip than last season.

The two most suspect marks are those of Pierce and Davis. They're second and third on the team, respectively, in 2-point attempts, and both are converting at rates that blow away their career bests. Pierce has made half his 2-point shots in a season just once, when he made 50.3 percent in 2005-06. For his career he's made 47.2 percent of his 2-point attempts. But this season, at age 33, he's at 53.2 percent.

Similarly, Davis entered the season a 45.3 percent career marksman on 2s, and he's made 48.3 percent so far this season. You can go right on down the line with the other Boston regulars, but those two are the greatest extremes.

Breaking it down on a team level, what's particularly striking is how much more often the Celtics convert at the rim. Boston is making 69.3 percent of its shots there, according to Hoopdata.com. Last season, it made only 64.4 percent.

It's not just that Boston hasn't been at 69 percent before, it's that nobody else has, either. No team has made more than 67 percent at the rim in the past five seasons. In fact, the only teams to top 65 percent are last season's, Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns in the four previous seasons. Those teams, obviously, had historically great finishers in LeBron James and Amare Stoudemire. The Celtics do not, which makes me suspicious of their ability to end up in the high 60s.

Maybe I'm wrong. Perhaps it's no fluke and there's a good reason the Celtics are defying the long-term trends. Nonetheless, trying to find such a reason seems to me a grasp for straws. One might argue it's the brilliant passing of Rondo, but he was on the team last season, and besides, he missed several games this season. One might say it's O'Neal, except he's missed a ton of time, too. One could argue that subtracting Rasheed Wallace helps, except he didn't shoot that many 2s last season and didn't shoot them that badly (51.1 percent). And one might say that the veteran Celtics are simply taking advantage of their experience, except that older players typically see their 2-point percentage decline.

So we're left to conclude that Boston is unlikely to keep shooting 2s so phenomenally. Which takes us to the next question: How great an impact are we talking about?

If, in its final 52 games, Boston shoots something more like 64 percent at the rim instead of 69 percent, that alone will subtract about 1.25 made shots a game, or 2.5 points. The Celtics will get back a few baskets on second shots, but since their offensive rebound rate is so poor, they'll end up with only about 0.3 points off those misses.

So we end up knocking 2.2 points a game off their offensive output. The good news is that the Celtics are still a heck of a team without those points. Right now they outscore opponents by 8.2 points per game, and dropping to 6.0 a game still would leave them as the second-best team in the East.

Where it becomes more interesting is a vis-à-vis the Miami Heat and the race for home-court advantage in the East.

Boston still leads Miami by three games in the loss column and has a good chance of owning the tiebreaker thanks to two early-season victories over the Heat. But the current playoff odds, which are based on past performance and do not factor in a potential decline in the Celtics' 2-point shooting, see the teams tying with 61 victories each. If Boston can't keep up its phenomenal short-range shooting percentage, it's going to fall short of that mark and likely would end up costing the Celtics home-court advantage.

All of that pales, of course, in comparison to the worries over Garnett's calf this morning. But the hot shooting of the C's is a subplot that warrants tracking as the season goes on. Boston is on pace to post historically great 2-point shooting results, particularly from short range, and that's been a major factor in its blistering start. But history tells us not to trust it.

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Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said Thursday afternoon an MRI confirmed Kevin Garnett's injury is a strained right calf muscle and not related to his surgically repaired knee.

Ainge, speaking on Boston sports radio station WEEI, estimated Garnett would miss two weeks with the injury.

"It's actually the muscle just off the side of the leg below the knee," Ainge explained. "It's not anything to do with his knee, which is great news. He may be out for a couple of weeks, at the most. ... I think that's on the conservative side."

uhhh luke harangody went off for a 17/11 tonite??

goin to celtics/rockets on monday - hadnt been to a c's game in prob five years now two in one month - i am truly blessed

neat! how long u in town for?

few days, maybe we could drink, still in ny atm

k well ilx bos crew is pretty good at turning out--if you've got a free night bump the boston classic or dirty water thread or something

sweet

avengers assemble

yo

gonna try to see them vs lolwizards later this month

uh wizards tix are way overpriced. no way am i paying $$$ for a throwaway game against a garbage team

td garden tix surprisingly affordable maybe i need to make a trip

do it! tho imo balcony not worth it for a bball game past the first few rows

was thinking about hitting the c's/clips game in early march

yeah i was looking at balcony. verizon center prices dont really go down until you're way up in the mezzanine corners, wtf.

my other idea was to catch them @ sixers but thats faded since a.i. left (again)

dude i'm on stubhub, yr not kidding those verizon center prices are insane!

i'd really like an explanation for it!

cuz dc is home to thousands of lobbyists with big expense accounts?

hmm looks as though wizards encourage price hikes on stubhub
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/31632/cutting-in-the-middle-man/

that article is old as fuck but must still hold true

cuz dc is home to thousands of lobbyists with big expense accounts?

none of whom give a shit about pro b-ball i mean come on don't kid urself

we are now back to being a game behind boston so it's over settling for second-seed is a bitter pill but it's fallen to us oh well.

ugh second tnt game is heat v. nuggs, nuggs seem to be on tv every 36 hours and i could not be more sick of looking at them. freaking trade melo already

oops wrong thread! i'll take it to god save antawn

agreed freaking trade melo already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkE5TlNfJa0

the end is so good

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what up

pt 2!

heat on sunday my god

lol gasol rly digging his heel in

oh shit forgot this was tonight

not gonna lie pretty worried about zero available centers behind perk. how much u wanna bet that ref who hates the c's (bill kennedy?) is in tonight and calls 2 quick ones on perk for having a mean face

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yeah c's are p banged up right now, would not be surprised at all if the lakers took this one

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love that

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/25076/sources-celtics-rockets-discuss-battier-deal

guess they might as well

would like. obv he would be there solely to chase around joe johnson, lebron and kobe in some order, pp can still guard them but stopping lebron obviously leaves him totally drained (see 0-10 last week)

but not sure cs have anything resembling an asset to give up at this point, right?

draft pick

would like. obv he would be there solely to chase around joe johnson, lebron and kobe in some order, pp can still guard them but stopping lebron obviously leaves him totally drained (see 0-10 last week)

― i see you're still wearing bs on tv (agent hibachi), Monday, February 21, 2011 9:47 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah wing stopper is their missing piece, rip tony allen

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MISS U BRUV

RIP KENDRICK "YOUNG JEEZY" PERKINS

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my fav scowl

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MISS U BOO

rip

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rip fun tymes

Perk was the soul of this team. Seriously bummed, and don't know why they needed to do it since they cleared roster slots with Luke and Semih.

I forgot - Go screw Nate! Don't let Shaq's big shoe hit you in the ass on your way out.

brain can compute why this trade was made, but heart knows it's wrong nonetheless.

i think ainge srsly underestimated the effect this will have on team morale, and how this will translate into performance.

ok look, i'll be honest. i love perk. i hate this trade. fuck i hate it.

tbh I think they will look back on this trade as the beginning of the decline of this celtics team

you guy realize perk barely played so far this season right

idk the "beginning of the decline" was a bit inevitable, what with all of them being elderly

i hate this trade and i hate ainge!!!

I mean not just about outcomes on the court - this will be the point where the organizational culture, the mission, starts going hill, it'll be easy for sportswriters to latch onto this as the turning point when they blow up the celtics a few years from now

they'll see this as when the c's jumped the shark, basically

unless they win it all

#whereamazinghappens

if they win it all again I guess they can go visit perk down in oklahoma

maybe egg his house or something

Boston trades Kendrick Perkins and Nate Robinson to Oklahoma City for Jeff Green and Nenad Krstic.

• View deal in ESPN's Trade Machine

Oklahoma City Thunder: B
The Thunder finally took some chips off their huge stack and threw them into the center of the table, dealing two starters to upgrade their interior defense and promote Serge Ibaka. I wrote about the transformation more extensively earlier, but the risk is that Perkins may fly the coop as a free agent. Even then Oklahoma City will be partially covered because it will have cap space, but if so it loses a valuable draft pick belonging to the Clippers for just half a season of Perkins. Robinson is more a minus than a plus in this deal, as he'll cost more than $4 million next season and is unlikely to see more than spot duty as a fifth guard.

Boston Celtics: B
Everyone in Beantown is puzzled by this deal, but the Celtics desperately needed a wing and had a surplus of centers. Obviously, dealing Perkins was a risk, and getting the Clippers draft pick is of questionable value for a team trying to win a title right now. I wrote more about the move here, but suffice it to say I can understand the logic as long as the Celtics think it's the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs, not the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers, who present the greatest threats to their title hopes this season.
Thunder bulk up with Mohammed

Boston trades Semih Erden and Luke Harangody to Cleveland for a second-round pick.

• View this deal in the ESPN Trade Machine

Cleveland Cavaliers: B
I don't think Erden is much of a player, but I can at least understand the Cavs' mentality here: They would use a second-round pick this summer to get a true center to back up Anderson Varejao anyway. Paying Harangody next season is likely just the price of it -- although, he may be competent enough to pass as a fourth or fifth big man. Cleveland also had to waive Leon Powe to clear a roster spot for the trade.

Boston Celtics: C+
Trading Erden is an odd response for a team with a rash of frontcourt injuries that hopes to contend right away. Obviously, Boston hopes to use the roster spots on waived or bought-out veterans, such as Golden State's Troy Murphy, but they already created one by shipping Marquis Daniels to Sacramento. A second-round pick from Cleveland has some value -- actually more value than Erden, I would argue -- but the time horizon here is the problem. Boston's window is right now.
Kings take on injured Daniels

Boston trades Marquis Daniels to Sacramento for a protected 2017 second-round pick and cash considerations.

Sacramento Kings: B+
This was a no-brainer. As ESPN.com's Marc Stein reported, the Kings were under the league's salary floor, which means having Boston pay them to take Daniels cost them less than nothing -- they were going to pay out extra money to players otherwise; instead, Boston is doing it. It's possible they can also parlay a small asset from a sign-and-trade with Daniels this summer, but this was mainly a money deal.

Boston Celtics: B+
A nice way to wriggle out of some luxury-tax money, as the Celtics essentially pay Sacramento to take Daniels, who was unlikely to play the rest of this season because of a spinal injury. That's the NBA for you -- Boston paid Sacramento to take Daniels, but both teams profited from it thanks to the cap and luxury tax rules.

is chris johnson the new guy from d-league? cuz yeeesh

nm it was WAFER

haha 'von wafer'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8q8gjTfGfo&feature=player_embedded

more embarrassing for big baby: getting blocked by danilo or getting blocked by the rim?

are you ready for the TROY MURPHY ERA

for some reason I refused to cut troy murphy from my fantasy team in spite of him not playing 2/3ds of the season. MAYBE I WILL BE REWARDED?*

*- probably not

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getting pavlovic

has that guy even played in the nba since like 09

not really!

http://grab.by/9gab

poor alvie

oh god celtics got arroyo, may he never play a post season minute

talk about yer "poison pills"

lol would you rather have arroyo or naterob

http://www.zeusbox.com/wallpapers/nate_big_baby_shrek_donkey_wallpaper-1024x768.jpg

assuming rondo is fine arroyo won't see the court in playoffs in anything but a blowout, but he can probably cut down rondo's minutes for the last 20 reg season games

nate is a much better player than arroyo when hes right, this season idk

trap game tonight or easy win?

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are they putting shaq on display during his injury hiatus? seems like the best use for him at this point

here is a carlos arroyo music video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYH9LzAzR3E

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this is intense

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Needs a caption.

"back...down...to...hell"

krstic and pavlovic, special bros from the former yugoslavia

Why does the Auerbach plaque in North Station have a factual error in bronze? It has a number of his accomplishments listed, including breaking the color barrier by drafting Chuck Cooper in 1960.

Is it that hard to check the facts before you cast it and display it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwgRjU1L6kA

reinforcements coming: jermaine tonight (lol)

von wafer could be tonight or tomorrow (also lol- i totally forgot he was on the team!)

shaq: now not really on any kind of timetable (read: he will skip everything but the last game or two to warm up for the playoffs)

“That was terrific,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers told reporters. “Hell, I’m going to say it. I probably shouldn’t, but I call it coach’s porn. We kept moving the ball, and Rondo kept taking shots and I was yelling that jokingly to them. We were laughing, because we had a joke about it that I won’t get into. It was terrific.”

lol doc is the best

first etsy item i have even considered buying:

http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_570xN.200207343.jpg

wau, 5-year extension for doc.

love it. doc is the now only active coach other than pop with a ring, at least until june. ainge must have sold him on the idea of one last big three run, then rebuild on the fly with rondo, free agent x and old man pierce in 2012-13 on

thought thread was being bumped for this

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/inmate_regrets_asking_judge_for_longer_sentence_to_match_larry_birds_jersey/

feel liek ainge mustve sold doc on some fantastic rebuilding master plan to get five more years, like something specific that could actually work otherwise why stick around through the lean times, maybe they have the inside track on howard B-) - p crazy everyone thought doc was walking

did you hear the plan to bring pierce off the bench to make minutes for... JEFF GREEN

genius!

or maybe doc just likes working for the celtics, they seem to have a v posi organizational vibe

ubuntu!

(trades beloved starting center)

i think that specific rebuilding plan is 2012 = only 25 mil in salary committed or w/e, rondo in his prime, pierce probably still effective enough as old man playing old man game = perfect free agent trap, a pre-made alpha dog slot wide open with a championship coach in a town that will love you

i mean im sure they have a dossier with plan a = max contract for dwight or something but i dont think it can be much more specific than that yet. im sure more specifics were told to doc like who is gonna get resigned and/or traded too

http://www.pestaola.gr/img2/panathinaikos-cool-logo.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Panathinaikos_shirt.jpg/800px-Panathinaikos_shirt.jpg

1938 swag

see ya, big guy:

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/images/photos/001/168/551/nenad-krstic-clippers1-e1301578957635-500x296_crop_310x205.jpg?1301623770

it's cool, u spurned my team for moscow, nbd.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/.element/img/4.0/global/swapper/201106/110615.06.jpg

i think that cardigan just won larry vs magic in favour of the aids guy

http://twitpic.com/5ow1pk

hey celtics fans, paul pierce is reportedly doing pretty well in the world series of poker fyi

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/full/344136872.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF3XCCKACR3QDMOA&Expires=1310446353&Signature=TYXmZZlqyUhzYzWtpyzmGtqlzlU%3D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuTk_VAdp-U

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxlUR0OCAAEy0XE.jpg

prediction: 2014 celtics will be somewhat better than people expect

not sure what people are currently expecting tbh

me neither

2010

shaq jersey

prediction: 2014 celtics will fall asleep in a lead-lined chamber and when they wake up the world will have been mysteriously depopulated and they will have to figure out how to procreate among themselves. i guess i am only 50/50 on this tho.

prediction: 2014 celtics will be somewhat better than people expect

I guess they couldn’t be worse …

they're gonna be worse. not much worse, but like 20 wins rather than 25. unless Marcus Smart is in fact the second coming of yeezus some seem to be predicting.

doesnt make too much sense frankly m8

yeah i'm unclear on how they'll be worse.

they have a not insignificant chance to lose more games than they did last year is all I'm saying. as just one example they don't have 3 gimme wins against the cavs like they did last year. which is not quiiiiiite the same thing as playing worse by default, I suppose. are you all expecting them to be better? or exactly the same?

and for the record I live here and would love to see them do better. I simply despair.

theyre going to have rondo back for one at least until he gets traded, rondo-bradley-smart shd be the best defensive backcourt in the league, this will be their second year with m/l the same team/same coach so that shd benefit them some, and theyve looked better in the preseason imo just more together, obvs theyre not gonna be good but i cld def see them surprising people w their competency

btw sullinger is still fat, wtf man hes flushing his career down the gdamn toilet

he needs a motivational speech from kevin love

sully I'm actually not that worried about. rondo will def be playing to impress suitors so that will help (I think if he goes to the knicks it's just as a rental). the backcourt is defensively strong though idk about it overall vs. certain others in the east, namely a certain dougie-ing fellow and Bradley beal

sully is good now it just drives me crazy how getting in shape wld take his game to the next level and hes not doing it

could be worse, he could be OJ mayo #silverlinings

http://i.imgur.com/YPcURs7.png

:]

http://i.imgur.com/vKZp0x0.jpg

Marcus Smart lost weight and he’s still the strongest man on the planet pic.twitter.com/SnBYB18Nuu

— #Mickstape (@MickstapeShow) October 7, 2017

smarts j looks different........ better

MARCUS SMART 👀 pic.twitter.com/4km7jgLsSn

— The Fuzz (@TheFuzzNBA) October 10, 2017

he's def leaner. had a nice over the shoulder pass to nader too.

everyone is talking about the weight loss which is a good improvement, but the jump looks like he changed it a lot and it looks like a realistic nba shot, he used to bring the ball too far back and his whole form just seemed really uncoordinated, it looks fluid now and hes cocking the ball further forward

if he cld become a reasonable shooter that wld be huge

heres last years shot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgSSbBcYGc

and nowww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG_-rKEHlw

the victory of the set shot over the two motion jumper is an under appreciated nba trend, we went from kobe jumping as high as he cld then flinging the ball with his arms to steph jumping like 4 inches and shooting in one quick motion

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNBPy91UMAAuL9-.jpg

lebron is old also i totally forgot Shaq was on the Celtics lol

i went to a celtics game feat shaq, he was large

got to see him a bunch with the suns. its true he is massive

Kelly Olynyk: "Coach (Brad) Stevens is one of the greatest people I've ever met in the world. He's an unbelievable human being." #Celtics

— gary washburn (@GwashburnGlobe) October 27, 2017

its funny in summer league everyone was freaking out over tatums fall away midrange game and there was even one sportswriter who was worried abt his future because thats not a efficient shot even tho really he was taking all types of shots and the fallaway was just what made the hightlights, anyway since the real nba has started hes barely taken one of those instead hes hitting 50% on threes and doin stuff like this

Up & Away Off Foot Lay In Traffic@bballbreakdown pic.twitter.com/pTTpj8MwjH

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) November 15, 2017

if u really need to generate a dece look its good to have an unblockable shot in yr pocket tho

celtics tv guys cant stop talking about what a big kid he is, theyre all you see him from far away and youre like fine then youre next to him in the elevator and youre like wow thats a big kid wide shoulders

also they have basically stopped apologizing for comparing him to pierce

Gap & Kick Pump Fake Slide Gallop Corner 3 @bballbreakdown pic.twitter.com/tMtzKm016n

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) November 15, 2017

also i love this twitter account it reads exactly like some nonsense generating bot

theyre worried in the comments that tatums knees might be a lil weak

need 2 do some squats kid

today in probably meaningless early season stats

The Boston Celtics have a 103.6 offensive rating this year, ranked 19th league wide.

With Marcus Smart and Kyrie Irving on the floor, it’s 111.

With Marcus Smart and not Kyrie Irving, it’s 103.5.

With Irving and not Smart, 100.6.

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) November 15, 2017

aw

📹 A Video Essay from @ASherrodBlakey on the bond between @jaytatum0 and @MookMorris2 pic.twitter.com/nhOUubjgln

— NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSBoston) December 6, 2017

im getting old ... seems weird that the morris bros are already considered vets

ha i thought the same, theyre pushing 30 tho!

I wonder about the Morris bros. They got a real bum rap here in PHX for obv reasons so I never heard anything but negative.

seems like they cld be kinda knuckleheads who have matured, they super hate the suns org from what ive heard

marcus seems not that great at basketball fwiw his main move is taking contested mid range shots, hes kinda undersized and not that athletic so he cant really defend or rebound, also hes convinced he shd be starting, his brother is/plays bigger tho so he has more of a role as physical inside presence/can play some center

yeah they got played by the suns. i woulda been mad too but at the same time like dudes you cant really expect to just be on the same team forever.

the conventional wisdom around the league is that theyre a bad influence on each other lol

theyre both just pretty middle of the road PFs in the league. good guys to have on the team at the right price. especially if you get one like marcus who is helping the young stud with the life of an nba baller pro tips and such.

markieff played great in last years wiz-celtics series is basically what im basing my opinion of him on

the new thing tommy wont stop talking about now that hes tired of discussing how big jason tatum is in the elevator is how kyrie spends like 20 minutes before every game practicing weird midrange bankshots, he yells IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT in a tone thats simultaneously shocked and suspects everything it knows is wrong

😭😭😭😭😭

pic.twitter.com/yFIaQyLkDK

— Cam 🎄 (@TransitionTatum) December 10, 2017

there was a good kyrie moment in todays game where jaylen and kyrie both went for the same defensive rebound jaylen fell down and kyrie got the rebound then kyrie while dribbling offers jaylen a hand up and jaylen gives him this expression like wtf are you doing play basketball

one of the tv guys just goes kyrie???

jayson update: he hit a three as the pnr ball handler today

one crazy thing to think abt with the celtics success this year is not only are they doing it while only returning one starter from last year and losing hayward which shook up their rotations even further but theyve played the most games in the league so far which means theyve had almost no time to practice

the flip side of the being they are v well positioned to have a good rest of the season

jayson tatum just like everyone else has no idea how he can shoot 15% better from 3 in the pros than he did in college

.@jaytatum0 discusses the work he put in this summer with @drewhanlen to increase his 3p% #unseenhours #puresweatfam pic.twitter.com/OMdXtY2AUL

— Pure Sweat (@PureSweat) December 21, 2017

👀 pic.twitter.com/ayebeLyXwi

— Lifelong Pelicans Fan Man 69☭ (@HebertofRiffs) December 22, 2017

celtics play 17 games in december

problem

#Celtics rebounding:

Games 1-20: 2nd in NBA overall
2nd defensive rebs

Games 21-37: 24th overall
17th defensive

— gary washburn (@GwashburnGlobe) December 26, 2017

This video perfectly describes Smart’s season so far pic.twitter.com/8R0duPPwVx

— Pᴜʟʟ ᴜᴘ sʜᴏᴏᴛ 🅥 (@Kl11A) December 27, 2017

If the season ended today, The Celtics would have the best possible odds that they can achieve for getting the Lakers pick (80.4%).

— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) December 30, 2017

the lakers have lost 8 of 10 and currently have the 3rd worst record in the whole nba

i want them to get one of the two big big men ayton and bamba

kyrie started using comic sans exclusively and gilbert felt threatened is what im reading between the lines here http://nba.nbcsports.com/2018/01/03/report-cavaliers-explored-trading-kyrie-irving-last-june-before-his-request/

Last summer’s trade request from Kyrie Irving came out of the blue for a lot of fans, and confused people — why would he want to leave a team that had been to three consecutive Finals and has the best player on the planet in LeBron James? Was his ego so big he had to do it his way? That’s not how Irving saw it, he saw a team he thought no longer wanted him.

The Cavaliers explored trading Irving before he ever made his request, reports ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan, who had a lengthy interview with Irving about the trade that sent him to Boston

Eastern Conference @Kia NBA Rookie of the Month @jaytatum0 of the @celtics in action! #KiaROTM pic.twitter.com/qxDFIXM6v6

— NBA (@NBA) January 4, 2018

more petty IT celtics drama the celtics wanted to show a tribute video for him at the game last night but IT said hed rather wait for a game when hes playing and his family can be there but then it turns out the 2nd cleveland game in boston is the night pierce gets his jersey retired and now pierce is saying that its not ok but IT thinks its prob ok lol

Paul Pierce said Isaiah Thomas missed his opportunity for a Celtics tribute video, and doesn't want to see any IT highlights during his jersey retirement ceremony. https://t.co/fRyIMiyS2i

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) January 4, 2018

pp should deal with it imo

naw i tihnk hes right

he's right!

Get dunked on ✅
Doink ✅

Also like how Towns paused a second to make sure his soul hadnt left his body, confirmed it was still in there, proceeded to go play offense. pic.twitter.com/nYDuYQl1C7

— Rob Perez (@World_Wide_Wob) January 6, 2018

pierce has a point but can't they space the two out enough so it's not so bad?

rozier is good now i guess

thumbing through his game logs and he barely played his rookie season but then averaged 20mins a game in the offs, brads ways are mysterious

i think avery bradley got hurt

ahh

i have checked a box score and yes bradley does not appear in it, i have no memory of this

i love IT but pp is right here winning a ring gives you a night to yourself when they retire your number

🍀 Learning British with the Boston Celtics! 🇬🇧

Ahead of #NBALondon, we put the @Celtics to the test and taught them some good old British phrases! 🗣"#Celtics pic.twitter.com/n9k2UxlDrd

— NBA UK (@NBAUK) January 7, 2018

strong feature

i liked it

jaylen came out of the gates strong but then terry made a strong finishing kick

celtics r pretty cute

nice young men

good blokes

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/09/jaylen-brown-boston-celtics-nba-interview

jaylen brown impressing the brits

I also enjoy Euro Kyrie.

Is it important to you to be an NBA ambassador?

"I’m an ambassador to just life in general."

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) January 9, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTIh-5YVwAAhhSQ.jpg

gordon looks ready to go in my professional opinion

tatum gets 6 blocks in a game and 5 of them are on ball!

All six @jaytatum0 rejections in one clip for your pleasure! 🚫🚫🚫 pic.twitter.com/aLYS7LejwS

— Tomek Kordylewski (@Timi_093) January 7, 2018

celtics might have some good young players https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/1/11/16878632/boston-celtics-could-be-best-young-team-in-nba-history-jayson-tatum-jaylen-brown

namas fuckin te brother

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTWlUJeUQAAEHVZ.jpg

thread

BREAKING: Kyrie Irving, on JJ Redick’s podcast, reveals that his flat-Earth theory came from his dutiful research on … Instagram.https://t.co/YeeSygcGFr pic.twitter.com/4r9qK8lmnD

— Ben Rohrbach (@brohrbach) January 12, 2018

its funny how the subtext of this is kyrie is extremely online

damn @ tatum protecting the rim

kids got the stuff

i like how hes been unlocking his midrange game lately too, hes deadly from there and having those shot available benefits the whole team, he was killing philly yesterday with these lil dives then pulling up

also dont want to jinx anything but terry r has put together by far the best 10 game stretch of his career http://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/3074752/terry-rozier

ordinarily id be fine writing off a 23 y/o shooting 37% a couple months into his 3rd seasons chances of ever becoming a good scorer but terry has always seemed like he has the stuff just cant quite put it together doing weird shit like pulling back his dribble when he has a half a step on his man and double pumping on an open three then taking an out of rhythm contested one, over this recent stretch hes def been finding his groove playing an easier game, and his D of course is great too, him and smart came into that game yesterday with the celtics down big and just completely devastated phillys backcourt they cldnt get into their offense at all

daniel theis at the pats game is excellent boston sports content

Big THANK YOU for the invitation @Patriots 🙌🏼🏈 Let‘s #GoPats 💯 pic.twitter.com/ZJfw2J5WGb

— Daniel Theis (@dtheis10) January 14, 2018

that jacket is perfectly insanely german

i know i thought it was sort of normal until i caught the shiny sleeves

darth vader's fisherman jacket

wow that's really something. the off-alignment toggle at the top makes me suspect he had part of another duffle coat stitched on to make it long enough.

celtics fans need to be cheering for brow tonight since it worked with hayward

Anthony Davis wasn't quite interested in talking about the Celtics reported interest pic.twitter.com/uxbKmWNSqh

— NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSBoston) January 16, 2018

I'm watching the celtics/lakers 30 for 30 and the narration is so corny lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUI60zRtBk

for me, spiritual alchemy is something i'm huge in

gotta be

ML carr is funny as hell in this

u dont get to sit on the bench of a championship team and wave a towel without being a charming guy

hayward playing basketball

Full #Celtics Brad Stevens on Gordon Hayward: He’s doing some spot shooting – very, very light. The other day I had him shoot a free throw in practice to determine whether we’d do the last drill or not. And he made it. So we didn’t do it. He’s doing all that he can right now.

— Scott Souza (@Scott_Souza) January 16, 2018

r.i.p. jo jo white, beloved interregnum celtics player and rare person who everyone seems to agree was "cool" in the classic sense.

Rajon Rondo was irked to hear that the Celtics would honor Isaiah Thomas on any night. "What has he done?” Rondo asked. Told that he led the Celtics to the conference finals last year, Rondo remarked, “Oh, that’s what we celebrate around here?”

— Bill Doyle (@BillDoyle15) January 17, 2018

Baynes is a terrific screener pic.twitter.com/3BdUQTzmDJ

— Mika Honkasalo (@mhonkasalo) January 17, 2018

lmbo

Shooting 50 percent from 3-point range in the G-League this year as a 6-foot-7 swingman. https://t.co/BmQBYjMm1t

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) January 19, 2018

ML carr is funny as hell in this

― k3vin k., Tuesday, January 16, 2018 2:23 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cedric maxwell has some good zingers in it too but Carr is the realness

Dueling cube/Donnie wahlberg narration is extra corny but I kinda liked that they just leaned into it being personally THEM narrating

no the problem was it was so stiff and obviously scripted. they just read these lame stock fan lines in their exaggerated accents lol so bad

Haha yeah true I kind of only half listened to it and it def jumps out when cube slips into RAIDERS HAT NWA CUBE mode for a particular line reading

https://www.instagram.com/p/BePHENgHu6c/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUQF31kU8AA3R8y.jpg

congrats big alfred

Boston Celtics star Al Horford selected 2018 NBA All-Star reserve https://t.co/XgkN5eKzoG pic.twitter.com/AilMk63uCv

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) January 23, 2018

While rehabbing in Los Angeles, @gordonhayward gets shots up ahead of tonight’s @Celtics action @ESPNNBA. pic.twitter.com/TSKwes6N34

— NBA (@NBA) January 25, 2018

He’s gonna be back by the all star game

they wont let him jump but i bet when hes alone he jumps

naw gordy def follows the rules

looks better than fultz

ha owned

NBA's Jayson Tatum Gets Rejected at Hollywood Hot Spot https://t.co/zKbMV6i5kv

— TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) January 25, 2018

ha

Jayson Tatum wanted to be like Kobe, but his dad made him watch tape of Paul Pierce instead.https://t.co/c3wDMkjCAq pic.twitter.com/1Q2mTnGQOA

— Lakers Nation (@LakersNation) January 25, 2018

good parenting

family values

jelly-o

The best part of watching the replay of the Celtics-Warriors game from November is hearing Marv Albert say "Semi Oh-Jelly"

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) January 27, 2018

I ball like Tracy McGrady..this could be us but you playing!

— Terry Rozier (@T_Rozzay3) May 22, 2015

yesss

not buying his excuse. something is up here

Report: Photos posted online by female acquaintance triggered Marcus Smart’s hand-cutting swipe at picture frame https://t.co/93HXOPCrtP

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) January 29, 2018

what do u think happened

she tried to stab him he blocked the knife w his hand, clearly

i wasnt even considering the possibility that she was there but that does make sense, tho on the other hand he does have a documented history of wall punching

yes but not wall swiping you see

idk a dude that has anger issues cuts his hand on a picture frame bad enough to sit him for 2-3 weeks? doesnt add up. need more details.

i agree the swiping part is sus cause its obvs that you need to frame it that way to account for a wound on the palm or inside of fingers which is where a defensive wound wld be, where it wld be on the outside of the hand if it were from punching, tho its not out of the question for someone to do some sort of open handed strike at a picture and break the glass

i feel like we need a timeline to asses if it was realistic for her to be in the room when it happened

tho i dont think missing 2-3 weeks is necessarily indicative of a really bad cut, like it cld just be a few stitches if it were to a part of yr hand that was key to playing basketball/cld open up again with too much stress

stitches is a bad cut!

ehh 2 or 3 stitches doesnt really take much

maybe. im not buying this story as presented, is all im saying.

yeah it def deserves further investigation, online rumors

things of that nature

i jut scrolled through a twitter search for marcus smart and no one seems to be questioning the storyline, someone needs to blow this thing wide open

Probably the most important part of tonight’s game was @johnmalkovich and his wife Nicoletta Peryan watching the game all by themselves. pic.twitter.com/9E740AYdJD

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) February 1, 2018

i wld like the celtics to trade for tyrke evans and sign greg monroe

i wld even trade say this years celtics first for tyreke, its gonna be way at the end of the first round + the celtics wld have a good shot at resigning him for a dece rate

https://i.imgur.com/1tNAsjb.png

+ 2018 celtics 1st --> memphis, sign greg monroe with haywards injured player exception, i dont have to watch marcus morris play basketball anymore

i don't mind trading that pick but evans really feels like a mirage idk

even if he performs more like career average tyreke evans he cld still be very useful as a microwave type for the celtics, they basically cannot score when kyrie sits (last nights 30pt win over the knicks excepted)

monroe is bad tho

hes been p dece the last couple years tbh

can at the very least score and rebound the basketball which is more than i can say for m morris

He’s a good change of pace type of player at the right price. If you just want to dump him the ball like 7-8 possessions in a row if things are jammed up, you could do a lot worse.

Evans is above average and does a lot of things well if healthy which has always been his biggest hurdle.

monroe seems like the kind of player they dislike but i'd def take him with that injury exception. he seems like a pain to play against when he's motivated.

booyah

Adrian Wojnarowski‏ @wojespn
Monroe will sign a one-year, $5M deal with Celtics, league sources tell ESPN. Pelicans could only offer $2.2M.

nice

nice low risk pickup. dude will help in the offs

they need scoring so bad too

next up.............

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUfgxhPWsAA510v.jpg

lol god bless the nba uniform shoppers

id say thats kyries body with evans head and arms

lmao dream big brother

We don’t want Tyreke Evans though. We want Anthony Davis. pic.twitter.com/JlWLooC1nl

— #RingNumberSixSZN (15-3) (@14benrt) January 28, 2018

celtics have the assets to make it happen, you have to pray the mirotic experiment doesnt work and they fall out of the offs and brow gets mad and demands a departure

they dont have the contracts to do it tho unless they want to trade horford which i suspect they dont, the solution is to sign someone to a short big contract to act as filler, but they dont really have anyone that wld be deserving of that contract who is up for a deal, what they cld do is trade for a player whos coming off their rookie deal like say julius randle and give them like a $15m a/year two year deal with a team option third or some shit, but then that cld fuck up their luxury tax situation, idk its complicated

uh who cares make it work!

im sure trader danny is preparing as we speak lol

minutia re tyreke

Boston would only have non-bird rights if they acquired him, meaning they would only be able to offer to him the mid-level exception in free agency next season since they are well over the cap. That is assuming they want to retain him, which would possibly mean letting Marcus Smart walk to minimize the luxury tax hit as the team eyes Terry Rozier’s free agency next summer.

marcus morris is very replaceable

i want him out of my life asap his game is horrendous

maybe u meant smart? in which case yeah, i think danny might love him tho

theyre both replaceable but i read your post wrong lol

anyway im gonna take this opportunity to describe a typical marcus morris possession, receives the ball on the wing with 10 seconds on the shot clock, holds, looks around, dribble, dribble, contested 20 footer bricks front rim

the midlevel would prob do it for tyreke given how little money is going to be out there

otm morris sucks

yeah id think so too, but p much everyone can offer the midlevel so thered be a lot of competition to sign him xp

seems like if the celtics are willing to offer this years first they cn take their pick of tyreke or lou williams but prob wont do it just for a rental

i think if they get one of those guys and the other east contenders dont upgrade even if hawyward doesnt come back theyll be firmly in the lead to be sacrificed to the super warriors

might even take a game off em

getting lou would be incredible though there's some thought that the clippers might keep him in the name of selling some tickets.

ya Morris would drive me crazy if he was on my team

clippers need to just trade their dudes for picks is over man move on

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVBk0WyU8AIPJ8O.jpg

Monroe’s a good pickup so thin on big men after al, feel like they could just feed him the ball a bunch and let the teenage guards run around and stay afloat when kyrie sits

Cuz right now it’s def a lot more contested midrange Marcus Morris than I ever wanted to see when kyrie is out (tho he swished a three the second I turned on the game against the lol Knicks the other night)

if he just took open catch n shoot threes and normal stuff like that hed be fine, but no

Feel like any real picks are not on the table until the offseason unless there’s a mondo warriors injury or something but Danny has surprised me before. Paying more than injury exception play money for a rental player isn’t really his style tho

Ugh I know the morrises are perfectly fine skilled players but they’re in that class of player where if they’re anything resembling the focal point they suddenly think they need to be 6-10 kobe

yeah its not but on the other hand they have sooo many young players and the pick is prob bottom 5 which is practically 2nd round xp

I’m ready to pack Marcus smarts bags though kinda love him but he also drives me crazy

if he just took open catch n shoot threes and normal stuff like that hed be fine, but no

― lag∞n, Friday, February 2, 2018 2:15 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he has these possessions where it's just so obvious w/in a second that he's decided he's gonna take the shot. like the four guys not defending him could be beamed into space and he would still not pass.

the scouting report on him must be like dont guard him so tight that he passes

mike gorman out of context "money for nothin and scal for free"

https://vine.co/v/bVib1ew1p1O/

career highs for rozier and tatum tonight 31, 27 respectively

First-quarter scoring leaders among NBA starters:
1. TERRY ROZIER – 10.0 PPG
2. James Harden – 9.9 PPG
3. Boban Marjanovic (!!!) – 9.0 PPG
4. LeBron James – 8.3 PPG
5. Stephen Curry – 8.2 PPG

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) February 3, 2018

trip dub for terry last game career high points tonight kyries gonna have to come of the bench when he returns

ainge could prob flip rozier for lebron atm

give cleveland a call

aw

Terry Rozier on whether he'll give Kyrie Irving his starting job back: "Kyrie's probably one of my biggest supporters outside of my family through this little process. So I know he's happy for me and when he comes back, he's going to pick it up."

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) February 3, 2018

<3 pals

According to two Western Conference sources, the Celts are still in pursuit of Lou Williams and Tyreke Evans. They have had discussions regarding others, but those two appear to be the main targets as the C’s look to add scoring off the bench.

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/celtics/2018/02/bulpett_greg_monroe_just_beginning_as_danny_ainge_looks_to_add_some_bench

Celtics seeking first-round pick for Marcus Smart, per @wojespn https://t.co/bZJYmJerZf pic.twitter.com/MGTQB3dkX5

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) February 3, 2018

lol

who wants our wall punching 30% shooting defensive genius pg who will need to be resigned at the end of the season

ainge is a mad genius, i tell ya what

maybe hes doing to fuck with smarts head, get him to stop punching walls

idk maybe smart has fans in the league

the cavs could use him (is becoming a blanket statement)

true

maybe the celtics can get IT back

https://i.imgur.com/dq5ehVq.png

damn it

i can understanding not being able to resign a player you traded who was then cut cause thats kinda a racket but u shd be able to trade for them theres no angle there

:)

GLAD TO BE BACK PLAYING WITH MY GOOD FRIEND AND ONE OF THE BEST TEAMMATE IVE EVER HAD.!! SWEDISH SENSATION .!! https://t.co/KsLh3GGSNf

— JAE CROWDER (@CJC9BOSS) February 9, 2018

wld be funny if jae and IT started playing good now

i think it's likely

yeah nowhere to go but up, regression to the mean and so forth

crowder is a good bounceback candidate, his year was off the rails as soon as his mom died and he got traded within like days. he needs an offseason to get back in shape.

https://i.imgur.com/Yi8E2gq.png

speak for yrself stats man

utah seems like as good a spot as any for crowder to bounce back

The rare Garden white out today as everyone gets a banner on their chest tonight to honor Paul Pierce’s #34 heading to the rafters. pic.twitter.com/DWnp6zSJh1

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) February 11, 2018

IT played good his first game as a laker btw

Doc on why he wanted to be at Pierce's retirement: "When you win together it's like a blood transfusion. You are connected for life." #Celtics #Celticstalk

— Amanda_Pflugrad (@Amanda_Pflugrad) February 11, 2018

doc breaks down his gm philosophy

lol

Doc Rivers says he's going to watch his first NBA game from the stands in 30 years today. "I'm gonna grab a beer, yell at the refs all game and boo LeBron."

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) February 11, 2018

Lmao

ok i dig those t-shirts

https://www.theringer.com/2017/1/6/16040652/why-did-paul-pierce-need-a-wheelchair-a54ca1cd7006

i want to believe that paul pierce pooed his pants

No way that stays on without tape pic.twitter.com/gCqD0wkxvc

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) February 11, 2018

"Ain't no tape!" 😂

The secret behind KG's hoodie (🔊⬆️)

pic.twitter.com/kGmCESra5B

— KG's Area 21 (@KGArea21) February 13, 2018

#3rdeye pic.twitter.com/FDMiwaTOqz

— Mike Dynon (@MikeDynon) February 25, 2018

i have become one with this picture

after last night, marcus smart is posting a career high fg% of .368 (by .001) he's the best

— David (@whaamncheese) March 1, 2018

Patience. One goal.

More to come ➡️ @PlayersTribune pic.twitter.com/buD5E0oDjy

— Gordon Hayward (@gordonhayward) March 2, 2018

he's coming back

ehh idk

Brad Stevens with his most definitive “he’s not playing this year” in regard to Gordon Hayward at shootaround this morning. pic.twitter.com/HxBr69ssXj

— Chris Forsberg (@ESPNForsberg) March 3, 2018

you don't think he might come back for the playoffs? he could rehab for another 2.5 months before they really start to need him

tho maybe they would want to play it safe, that would be understandable. otoh this seems like the rare year in the east where anyone can make the finals

i think its possible, but even then coming back from missing a whole season and being thrown into the playoffs is a pretty rough transition, how much wld he be able to contribute and wld it be worth it or desirable for the celtics to do it, considering that even if hes technically ready they still might hold him out id say if i had to bet that hes not coming back this year, but he def cld who knows

also i doubt making it to the finals and getting smushed is high on the celtics list of priorities

breakdown of weird celtics twitter for those who like to have jokes explained to them https://uproxx.com/dimemag/weird-celtics-twitter-isaiah-thomas-ojeleye-factory-combat-muscles/5/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWrrA0wW4AAxGp5.jpg

lmao

CELTICS TWITTER WE HAVE A NEW GIF pic.twitter.com/CVo2LGxntU

— Go away, Colonizer! (@Game_Phreak845) March 6, 2018

oh damn, that's really hard to do

well, it makes sense given all his combat muscles and grit

he can do flips and all sorts of shit

p sikk tbh

The only scenario that makes any sense to me at all for Hayward to come back during the playoffs would be inserting him briefly into a home game in the second quarter, for the morale boost and to energize the crowd. Regular minutes beyond 5, up to 8 tops, would be totally implausible, unless they've been keeping him back unnecessarily, which seems totally implausible to me, too.

bh combat muscles

Pray for Marcus Smart (@celtics): hope your birthday kicks off a blessed and healthy year @smart_MS3! #NBAPrayers pic.twitter.com/GeEP3iuAhd

— NBA Prayer Requests (@NBAPrayers) March 6, 2018

birthday happy

I can’t stop watching this clip of Brad Stevens yelling at Jaylen Brown to “PUNCH IT” in transition and within a microsecond he jumps from 3rd to 1st gear and explodes.
(Via u/PornCommentsAreWeird on Reddit. Yes that’s their name and I’m proud of them.) https://t.co/M0lctnckR5

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) March 6, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwj-yvnZL1w

Marcus Smart said he has been surprised that his ninja flip has gotten so much attention. He learned flipping at an early age, adding that he was just a kid “flipping in the hood.”

— A. Sherrod Blakely (@ASherrodblakely) March 7, 2018

Danny Ainge: Gordon Hayward doesn't think he's playing this season for Boston Celtics https://t.co/K4dMNXHhAr

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) March 8, 2018

"just a kid flipping in the hood" is a great phrase

this news story is low key funny

Gordon Hayward if he still has hope to play this year: “The hope is still there. It’s something where I’m really honestly not even thinking about it.” pic.twitter.com/L6g7bV5DUy

— Chris Forsberg (@ESPNForsberg) March 9, 2018

hes def playing this year lol.

he cant even run w/o an antigravity machine!

the part of that interview where he talks about not being able to leave his house without randoms asking him if hes gonna play this year lol

Boston fans expect at this point he’s gonna start getting boo’d

you know who celtics fans really want to boo is al horford and im upset about it those fn ignoramuses

celtics shd consider resting some guys

So if the Celtics lose tonight the Pacers will be in 3rd place in the East, and the Cavs in 4th....the C's would still have a 7 game lead over the Pacers with 15 games left pic.twitter.com/ClzrycWwpU

— Max Lederman (@Max_Lederman) March 11, 2018

hmm

Al Horford tried to come in to play but was told to stay home due to his illness.

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) March 11, 2018

lmao flop

thats our marcus

tommy had an amazing burn on the pacers "most of these guys cldnt even spell moxie"

doin stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73VU41U8EUk

damn rip big man

Story on Celtics losing center Daniel Theis to season-ending surgery to repair a torn meniscus: https://t.co/3ZgZfK4UuN

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 12, 2018

true

Terry Rozier on the numerous injuries to Celtics roster: "It sucks, but we can't do anything about it."

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) March 12, 2018

aww theis : (

not a great day for the celtics!

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart has suffered a torn tendon in his right thumb, league sources tell Yahoo. He will have second opinions on his thumb and be out indefinitely.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 12, 2018

prediction: celts aint going to the chip this season

sheesh

Wow jeez. And Kyries knee acting up? Or is that just code for “rest”?

his knee is sore, prob not a big deal but its def been a problem