Shaq's Always Quote-worthy... "When I came into the league, I wanted to compete with Bill Russell for titles," O'Neal said Tuesday, with Russell's 11 championship banners hanging above him at a news conference to mark his signing with the Boston Celtics. "That's not going to happen, but I'd like to almost get half of what he got." "Do I have the same hunger? Yes. If I didn't, I wouldn't be here," O'Neal said. "I don't like wasting my time. I don't like wasting anybody's time. At the end of the day, when I close the book, it's all ...
Here we go! The regular season kickoff is a little less than three months away and the hype has begun. NSS friend and esteemed member of the ESPN family, Chris Forsberg, published a terrific article today. In the story, Forsberg noted some of the great player quotes coming out of Boston regarding the South Beach circus. He also speculated what we all believe to be the case. The Celtics will square off against the league's newest big three. As Chris put it, "old big three" vs "new big three." Brace yourselves. It's coming. Miami will be getting more air play than that shitty ...
Digesting Thursday's loss took me a full day. I avoided basketball at all costs yesterday. I just needed a break as the absolutely crazy 2010 season ended. I think many Celtics fans felt the same as I did. Today, I am back into NBA mode and I am already in Celtics-withdrawal. Every off season, I feel a gaping hole in my heart-- like a close relative has moved away. Now it's time to get back into full off-season swing at NSS. Before we do, I would like to reach out to our friends, contributors and loyal readers with a message of thanks ...
No, not good all Doc but his offspring Austin. Little Rivers may have been riding high after getting ranked as the number one high school prospect in the nation by Rivals.com heading into the opening day of the Boost Mobile Elite 24 camp. It seems like there is a new camp we hear about every [...]
Categories: Doc Rivers, Lee Herman, Opinion Piece
If there is one question that always comes up in conversation about the Celtics this off season, it’s what is Boston going to do when Kendrick Perkins returns from injury in February? There are many different options that get bandied about that can lead to some pretty heated discussions. The pro-Perk camp says that the [...]
Categories: Boston Celtics, Lee Herman, Opinion Piece
Since there isn’t a whole lot happening in the Hub right now outside of Patriots Camp where Vince Wilfork tried his hand at QB, Dustin Pedroia’s imminent return to a listless Sox team and the Celtics getting around posting an updated roster with the new uni numbers, I decided to look at every team on [...]
Categories: Boston Celtics, Lee Herman, Opinion Piece
Even though the Hub is all a twitter with the official announcement and press conference to introduce Shaq Paddy, I can’t help but not be interested whatsoever. Yeah, yeah, Game 7, we were so close blah blah friggin’ blah. If we had Perk…now we have Shaq. I honestly don’t care at this point. One thing has [...]
Categories: Boston Celtics, Lee Herman, Opinion Piece, Rajon Rondo
This is the current picture overwhelming the Celtics official website. Everyone in the sports world seems to have a differing opinion on how the Big Shamrock will fit in as a Celtic. North Station Sports is no different. Here is a list of great articles posted from our excellent writing staff this week about the [...]
Categories: Boston Celtics, Calvin Chamberlain, Lee Herman, Nick Gelso, Nick Sannicandro, Opinion Piece
I held off on commenting about Shaq signing with the C’s until I started to hear some specifics. An acquisition of a player of O’Neal’s accomplishments at the very late stage of his career is always dicey. Teams will want to pay players like that for what they can do, not what they have done [...]
Categories: Boston Celtics, Lee Herman, Opinion Piece
Here is a possible acquisition I can get behind. Rudy Fernandez is tired of playing behind Brandon Roy at the two in Portland. Why would he then want to come to Boston and play behind Ray Allen? Age, my friends. Roy is a young buck with many years left on those surgically repaired legs of [...]
Categories: Boston Celtics, Celtics Beat, Lee Herman, Opinion Piece, Portland Trail Blazers
When I first read about New Zealand eying up Perkins to play for, get this, their National Team, I thought it was an Onion article. After reading it on Gino’s Jungle, more Celtics outlets as well as ESPN’s Chris Forsberg (who incorrectly [though probably not intentionally] sited the “find” on another blog that was 10 [...]
Categories: Lee Herman, Opinion Piece
Maybe I had unrealistic high hopes for the Celtics heading into free agency. They obviously weren’t in the market for Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson or the Great Decider but I have to say, I’m a little underwhelmed here. Lacking any sort of a splash reinforce the bench at any meaningful position and the [...]
Categories: Boston Celtics, Lee Herman, Opinion Piece
I have made it perfectly clear that I am probably the biggest Tony Allen apologist this side of having half of my genetic code in his genes. The fact that he left the Celtics after finding his role and embracing it was like getting a boot to the face after being doubled over from the [...]
Categories: Boston Celtics, Lee Herman, Opinion Piece
