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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. And that, in a nutshell, is the story behind the 2011-12 Celtics. Garnett, the linchpin of one of the best defensive teams in NBA history over the [...]

The Celtics, after probably losing today to drop to 4-8, are going to go on a 6-2 run to close out the month.  What inside information did I get to make such a bold proclamation after such a crappy start?   I, ummm, looked at the schedule. Let's take a look ahead together, shall we?   Mon [...]

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The Celtics bench has totally been re-tooled.  The only returning players are Marquis Daniels (who missed half the season after his injury), Avery Bradley (who barely played last year), and Sasha Pavlovic (who is returning in only the strictest sense of the term).   We touched on the bench in the Dump, noting how awful [...]

  After each game, we'll be taking stock in each players… and maybe coach's… performance.  If we like what we see, we're buyin'.  If we don't, we're sellin'.  Or maybe we'll just hold onto our stock until we see more next game Paul Pierce: The Captain went off in the third quarter to bail out [...]

  Way to be in the game, Troy Murphy. Remember when we were excited to get this guy? via BDL [...]

Tip: 7:30pm     Court: TD Garden    Watch it: CSNNE    Hear it: WEEI Referees: Mike Callahan, Kane Fitzgerald, Karl Lane  Get your tickets here The Matchup   Record: 0-3 Record: 0-2     At Home: 0-0  On road: 0-1 Streak: Lost 3 Streak: Lost 2     Leaders  Leaders Buckets: Rondo (22.0 ppg) Buckets: Ben Gordon (19.5 ppg) Boards: [...]

Twitter / @gwashburn14: #Celtics GM Danny Ainge te … via kwout Mickael Pietrus, like it or not, is now extremely important to this team's success.  We need him in uniform, but we also need him healthy and ready to finish the season.  Obviously Paul Pierce is the most important piece we need back, but I'm [...]

After each game, we'll be taking stock in each players… and maybe coach's… performance.  If we like what we see, we're buyin'.  If we don't, we're sellin'.  Or maybe we'll just hold onto our stock until we see more next game Paul Pierce:  The man who hasn't played a minute yet has shown us all [...]

Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski was on WEEI this morning and he explained the whole Rajon Rondo trade rumor mess.   If the Celtics had a chance to get Chris Paul, they would have moved Rondo to get him.  That's just the reality Rondo will have to live with…. The one thing about Rondo, for all the [...]