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Here's the injury update from practice Despite appearing glum about his prognosis and sitting out Wednesday's regular-season finale against the New York Knicks, West looked in full health Friday during 5-on-5 drills to close out the session, and remains on target to play in Game 1 on Sunday.  "Delonte's fine," said Rivers. "We're 100 percent, [...]

Via the Globe: Celtics president Danny Ainge told the Globe this afternoon that Shaquille O'Neal is unlikely to play in Wednesday's season finale against the New York Knicks but is expected to practice Thursday and be ready for Game 1 of the Celtics' first-round series Saturday or Sunday. File this under:  We'll believe it when [...]

Chris Forsberg has some notes from today's shootaround As for your daily Shaquille O'Neal Watch, Rivers reiterated that the 39-year-old center, who is now nursing a right calf sprain, won't play in either of the next two games, but there's still potential for Sunday in Miami.  "Definitely not tonight, unless he gets on his super plane and [...]

Doc was on WEEI this morning.  Chris Forsberg listened to it. Asked if the 39-year-old center could join the team in Miami on Sunday, Rivers playfully said, "Maybe." He quickly added, "We're going to be very cautious with him. I would love to play him a couple games, but only if I think he's feeling [...]

Via WEEI:  Krstic thinks the biggest silver lining to Thursday’s knee scare has been watching from the bench over the last two games. “It’s very important,” Krstic said of learning time before the playoffs. “Maybe these two games I missed are a good thing. Everything is going to settle down in my head. I was [...]

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 The Big 4:  Instead of ticking them off one by one, I'm gonna lump them [...]

Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images 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 O'Neal was the first Celtic introduced to the TD Garden crowd in the starting lineup announcements and was greeted by [...]

Are you dizzy yet? Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge joined The Big Show for his weekly interview on Thursday afternoon. Ainge was first asked about the status of Shaquille O’Neal. Doc Rivers indicated earlier on Thursday that O’Neal’s achilles injury could be a problem in the postseason. “I was just with Shaq, we were just working out down [...]

  From Chris Forsberg we have video of Jermaine from this morning’s walkthrough/shootaround. He says he was very winded during his first practice which was yesterday, but Doc still thought “he had a good day.”  I predicted early in the season that J.O. would not last the entire 2010-11 campaign, but not because I have anything against [...]

Via Sherrod The Boston Celtics are starting to get worried that Shaquille O'Neal's sabbatical from the game to deal with an assortment of right foot/leg/Achilles tendon continues to take longer than expected to heal. While the goal is to have him suit up before the playoffs, Celtics coach Doc Rivers acknowledged on Thursday that the [...]