I often wonder what opposing teams, their beat reporters and bloggers are saying about the Celtics after playing the Celtics. Here's a dose of 'enemy chatter' from San Antonio. “Everybody basically sucked,’’ said the man who has been coach of the Spurs since 1996-97. Globe Gregg Popovich on Ray Allen: “Ray needs to work on [...]
January 6, 2011 Chuck - Red's Army Uncategorized (Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images) This game was freakin' nuts… The Celtics beat the Spurs 105 – 103 in a game that featured two dramatic momentum swings over the final 2 minutes. The Celtics execution from the 2:28 mark until the :50 second mark was perfect: Rondo dishes to Glen Davis who finds [...]
January 5, 2011 Chuck - Red's Army Uncategorized This is a pretty big game… hell, it's a potential NBA Finals preview… so we figured something more was in order for this evening. And with our boy Jeff Garcia from Project Spurs in town, we figured sitting down for a joint preview podcast was a good idea. We dive into it with a "hey, [...]
January 5, 2011 RedsArmyAdmin Uncategorized This preview is provided by Accuscore and is not written by any members of RedsArmy.com. Predictions are based on computer simulations The San Antonio Spurs are slight 51.5 percent favorites over the Boston Celtics. The Spurs are shooting 44.9 percent from the field and the Celtics are forecasted to shoot 45.9 percent. The rebounding battle is pretty [...]
January 5, 2011 RedsArmyAdmin Uncategorized Whoa momma… that's pretty nasty. (via Ball Don't Lie) [...]
December 17, 2010 RedsArmyAdmin Uncategorized According to Forbes Magazine, Celtic fans rank seventh overall as the "Best fans in professional sports." Forbes used three different metrics across each of the four "major" sports leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL) which were the following: Measure home and away attendance (indicating the team's drawing power) Counted team's merchandise sales (provided by Sportsonesource) Rank [...]
August 3, 2010 Jay Uncategorized Man… folks in the NBA ain't playin' around. If you actually slept last night, you missed a few things. - The Milwaukee Bucks agreed to a 5 year, $32 million deal with Drew Gooden. $32 mil. is a lot, but $6 million a year isn't too bad. Kelly Dwyer explains it pretty well. As he [...]
July 1, 2010 RedsArmyAdmin Uncategorized TNT's and NBA.com's David Aldridge joins Boston & That Sports Babe tonight at 9pm to help us sort through the latest in the NBA playoffs. We'll be talking C's/Cavs, of course, but we'll also be talking about the Suns going up 2-0 on the Spurs, whether the Lakers have turned it around, and much more. [...]
May 6, 2010 RedsArmyAdmin Uncategorized We're giving tickets to Friday night's Houston Rockets, courtesy of T-Mobile, game every hour, on the hour today between 11 am and 3 pm. Each hour, we're going to ask a simple little trivia question that requires, at best, the ability to use Google, but mostly involves information already on RedsArmy.com. The first person to [...]
March 31, 2010 RedsArmyAdmin Uncategorized We're giving tickets to Friday night's Houston Rockets, courtesy of T-Mobile, game every hour, on the hour today between 11 am and 3 pm. Each hour, we're going to ask a simple little trivia question that requires, at best, the ability to use Google, but mostly involves information already on RedsArmy.com. The first person to [...]
March 31, 2010 RedsArmyAdmin Uncategorized