Celtics News

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big storyline. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. Changing people is not easy, though. Perhaps the Celtics would be able to “figure out” Cousins and help him tap his vast potential. That does not mean [...]

Frank Isola of the New York Daily News brings us up to date on the Carmelo Anthony/Kevin Garnett soap opera: There are unconfirmed reports that Carmelo became enraged because Garnett said something derogatory about Melo’s wife, TV personality, LaLa According to a source, Garnett told Carmelo outside Celtics locker room something along lines of “it’s [...]

Rajon Rondo served a one-game suspension last night for inappropriate contact with a referee.  At the time, Rodney Mott didn’t think enough of the contact to throw a tech at Rondo, clearly thinking it wasn’t a big deal.  Rondo today, addressed it before practice.    The league thought it was a big deal. I don’t [...]

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My apologies for taking a quote from the civil rights movement and using it to speak about basketball,  but the brilliance of [...]

Rajon Rondo made contact with an official after being whistled for an offensive foul.  The official at the time did not whistle Rondo for a technical foul, but the league decided it was enough of a bump to warrant another suspension for Rondo. They said Boston’s Rondo suspended 1 game for making contact with an [...]

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big storyline. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. The Celtics confirmed that they have waived Kris Joseph and Jarvis Varnado. At 5 p.m. today, their contracts would have become guaranteed. An NBA source termed the release of Joseph, [...]

If the Celtics had just waived Jarvis Varnado, no one would have batted an eye.  The fact that they waived Kris Joseph, a kid they were pretty high on over the summer… well… we’re batting eyes all over the joint. Suddenly, the Celtics have gone from “we don’t want to pay guys guaranteed money to [...]

According to ESPN’s Marc Stein, the Celtics waived Kris Joseph and Jarvis Varnado today. This came out of nowhere and has not been reported by any local media as of yet. Stein went on to say that 5pm tomorrow is the deadline for teams to waive players with non-guaranteed deals, else they become guaranteed. Stay [...]

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big storyline. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. According to the NBA schedule, the Celtics will host Phoenix on Wednesday. Last night they were a phoenix.Rising from the ashes of a 19-point, first-half deficit, the Celts turned [...]

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big storyline. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. On the Celtics PR staff’s quote sheets, the first sentence in Kevin Garnett‘s post-ejection press conference reads: “This game was not about foreplay.” There’s a chance he said [...]