Boston Celtics

I really like the direction this team is going but I'm not so sure they can really be a contender in the East this year.  The East has gotten a lot stronger over the last few years and while I think they can make the playoffs I don't really see any chance that they can really beat The Magic, the Heat, the Celtics, of the Bulls.  And I'm skeptical they can even beat teams like the 76ers or the Hawks.

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go out on that field and play like one.  Right now the Boston Red Sox and for that matter the Boston Celtics are not playing like champions.  They are playing like a bunch of guys who are glad that they are making a lot of money doing something that we all probably did for free growing up.  It would be like me getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for belching the alphabet (if anyone knows of an opening for that let me know, I'm in for that).  Champions don't get beaten the way the Red Sox got beaten this weekend. 

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Injuries are sweeping through the Boston Celtics locker-room quicker than the Rage Virus infected London in 28 Days Later. Since their February 8th home-defeat against the Spurs, the Celtics have lost Tony Allen, Kevin Garnett, Brian Scalabrine, Rajon Rondo and Big Baby Davis to one ailment or another. Tonight in Miami, Boston will dress a group of ten players that includes a pair of newcomers who have been on the team less than two weeks, two rookies who never play, and a second-year guard who no one knows if Doc even likes and recently returned from a DUI suspension.

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I have to admit, this edition of The Sports Don’s Sunday Musings was harder for me to compile than the previous two weeks. Maybe it’s because I’m still bull over Steven the Black Jack Dealer cheating me out of all of my money at Foxwoods or perhaps it’s because I’m trying to remember to DVR Dark Days in Monkey City. Either way, I still managed to ramble on especially long this weekend so I’ll keep the words typed in the remainder of my intro to a minimum...here it is.

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Are the dogs in New York safe?

5.) I challenge anyone who was beginning to think the Boston Celtics chances at championship 18 were in jeopardy to stand by that belief following the C’s double-digit come from behind victory in the second half against Dallas on Thursday night. It was quite impressive. Boston overcame five Kevin Garnett fouls in three quarters, Ray Allen’s hyper extended thumb, and playing without subs Tony Allen and Brian Scalabrine to enter the all-star break with the best record in basketball. The Mavericks may not be the superpower they were three seasons ago, but the Celtics didn’t make me regret staying up until 2 a.m. to finish watching the recording of the game after taking a break at the half to kill some zombies in Left 4 Dead. While it should have never been in doubt, Boston sent notice to everyone in the game that home losses to the Lakers and Spurs in a five day span was not a sign of their complacency with last year’s Larry O’Brien trophy. I also challenge anyone to tell me that Kendrick Perkins doesn’t look like a combination of John Thompson III and The Muppets’ Sam Eagle. These are the things I think about it. Is there something wrong with me?

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I never had the opportunity to personally attend any of the classic Celtics-Lakers games of the 80s. I was actually only in the old Boston Garden twice, and neither occasion was for basketball. I can’t even claim to remember watching any of the historic battles live on television since I was just six when the decade ended. ESPN Classic provided me with the handful of Bird vs. Magic matchups I have seen, and while I could still feel the intensity between the two great franchises, the suspense was lacking because I already knew the outcomes prior to sitting down.

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The Boston Celtics completed a trade on July 31, 2007 that forever altered the complexion of their franchise. The Celtics swung five players, cash considerations and two first-round picks to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Kevin Garnett, and following some additional tweaking, as Celtics radio announcer Sean Grande so aptly put it, after 20 years of futility, “the game’s original monarchy has retaken the throne”.

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All-Star Reserves ballots were due yesterday at 3p.m., and for the all the Eastern Conference coaches who tune in to my blog, I provided some help, a cheat sheet if you will, to aid in their quest to make the proper selections. Call it an East Coast bias, but time did not allow me to do the same for the West. Hopefully, they managed on their own.

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wyane Wade, Miami Heat

F – LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers

F – Kevin Garnett, Boston Celtics

C – Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic

With the aforementioned guidelines adhered to, here are my selections...

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The Kobes and the LeBrons, excuse me, I mean, the Lakers and the Cavs met for the first time this season a week ago today in Los Angeles, and while the home team won by 17 in an uneventful game where James matched his number in points and Bryant’s 20 weren’t even a team-high, it did give basketball’s so-called pundits another opportunity to debate who’s better: Kobe or LeBron.

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Following a putrid stretch when the defending champions lost seven of nine, the Boston Celtics have regained much of their swagger with six consecutive wins by an average of 16 points per game. Thursday night, the Celtics venture to Orlando to play the hottest, and arguably best, team in the NBA. Regardless of the outcome, do Boston fans still have reason to worry about the chances of Green 18? 

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n intended but the Indiana pacers were surely lucky to be in the receiving end of a sloppy Boston Celtics team. Turnover after turnover, the Celtics looked as if they don't know where their teammates were at the basketball court. Credit must also be given to Indiana's defense but honestly, it was just one of the worst games that the Celtics ever had in the past year. There goes 82-0, no one can ever reach that insane record but nevertheless, if they still play as bad as today, then the repeat would be impossible.

Weirder things has happened in the beginning of the season, the San Antonio Spurs are 0-2 and if you forgot already, they were champions a couple of years ago. Anyways, it's still too early to tell but if the Celtics really play as sloppy as today, then maybe they need to improve because there are more tougher teams than Indiana. What sucks more is that the Celtics lost even if Mike Dunleavy, Jr. did not play. 

The Celtics must not feel complacent in every quarter. Eventhough they have the capability to catch up in the fourth quarter, still, they can't pull off that trick all the time. As Doc Rivers sat by the scorer's table in disbelief, the Boston fans were in awe with what happened in Indiana, their shots were always falling while the Celtics had a very hard time to get a ball sliding through the net. It looked as if there was a lid on the Celtics' basket at Conseco Field House.

Big Ups to Danny Granger and TJ Ford, but truth be told, all I can say is that they just really got lucky that the Celtics sucked today.

November 4 =

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The Boston Celtics have definitely proven their worth as a championship team. Their cinderella story has came true the previous season and now comes the hard part. It's time to defend and it's time to prove that they are deserving to be called NBA Champions. Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett will have their hands full this season as many teams have improved their line-ups.

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TAR:

EAST WINS OVER THE WEST

ROOKIES WIN OVER SOPHOMORES

PLAY-OFFS:

EASTERN CONFERENCE

1) Boston Celtics

2) Cleveland Cavaliers

3) Detroit Pistons

4) Orlando Magic

5) Philadelphia Sixers

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Many may doubt a repeat from the Boston Celtics due to the trades made out in the Eastern Conference. Definitely, many teams have improved with regards to their line-up. You have Toronto with two imposing big men, then you also have Philadelphia adding up Elton Brand. The Eastern Conference has beefed up for sure but as the saying goes, "Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion."

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Here is the line-up for the 2008-2009 BOSTON CELTICS

Guards:

Rajon Rondo, Gabe Pruitt, J.R. Giddens, Eddie House, Sam Cassell, Tony Allen, Ray Allen

Forwards:

Paul Pierce, Leon Powe, Glen Davis, Kevin Garnett, Brian Scalabrine, Bill Walker

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He could lead a team, establish defense and impose himself offensively if he wants to.

The Boston Celtics is the best team because they have come up with the winning formula to capture a crown. Though many say that the "Big Three" does it all, we can't just disregard the bench and the role players who's ready to step up in any given situation.

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been a Boston sports fan the entire time.  Without a doubt my biggest allegiance lies with the Boston Celtics.  My family has had season tickets since the day I was born, and I have bled Celtic green for 22 years.  Of course winning the 2008 NBA Championship was quite a feeling, but I've had other great moments as a Celtics fan and plenty of bad moments.  Through the thick and thing I have stuck with this team, including the drafting of Chauncey Billups and Ron Mercer instead of Tim Duncan.  It has all been worth it.  I've had the privilege of being at the then-FleetCenter for Game 1 of the 2002 Playoffs against Philadelphia where they marched all of the all-time greats onto the court with everyone in the crowd waving a rally towel, the current team on the jumbotron getting ready to come to the floor; and I can admit that I got a little choked up.

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Don’t take this the wrong way, but I like a little violence, in sports that is. I think most people who like sports agree. The biggest reactions from spectators usually occur after a big coll

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I don’t know why, but it occurred to me the other day that clothing really changed sports. In ancient Rome, sports were played in the nude. Seriously. That’s probably why there were no

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Call the cops cause the Lakers got murdered last night, as the Celtics went on to win their record 17th championship . After dominating the Western Conference playoffs, the Lakers got beat up and down the floor last night. It even left red blood stains on Doc's suit, it was actually red Gatorade. The Celtics defense held the Lakers to 42.2% shooting, forced 18 steals, and if not for some garbage time buckets in the final three minutes the Lakers had only scored 85 points. They were able to stop the Laker's aggressive play by cutting off passing lanes and coming over to help when they saw the Lakers move to the basket.

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tracked by the Gang Green.

How cool is this spring going to be?  We have the 54-13 Boston Celtics.  The best record in the NBA and maybe best team to match.  And the 2007 Champion Red Sox, coming into the new season with just about all of the key cogs from last year, along with a couple of nice additions in Sean Casey and possibly Bartolo Colon.  It's pretty cool knowing that 2 or 3 times a week through April, Boston fans will have great sports options.

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here and there.  Last year it happened here, there, then, now, yesterday, and tomorrow for the Boston Celtics.  But that was last year.

For only the second time all season the Celtics dropped two in a row after Baron Davis canned a last second fall away jumper.  The Golden State Warriors defeated the men in Green, 119-117, in front of 20,711 people, the largest crowd in franchise history, and largest crowd to ever watch a basketball game in the state of California.  That's great.  We lost!

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