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After two week’s, All-Star Weekend, the trade deadline passing and five games out west, The Boston Celtics return to the Garden tonight. The C’s last game on the parquet stage was February 7th. An uninspired loss on national television to the Orlando Magic left Stan Van Gundy with the confidence to compare Dwight Howard with [...]

Categories: Big Three, Bill Russell, Boston Celtics, Celtics Legends, Danny Ainge, Doc Rivers, History, Injuries, Kendrick Perkins, Kevin Garnett, Larry Bird, NBA Legends, Nate Robinson, Nick Gelso, Opinion Piece, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Red Auerbach, Robert Parish, Trades, Uncategorized, kevin mchale

Yesterday was quiet when it comes to the obligatory, “Celtics interested in insert-star-player-who-is-on-the-block-for-expiring-deals” trade rumors that flood the major sports sites around deadline time each year. Today’s whisperings that Danny Ainge is discussing dealing Ray Allen to the Washington Wizards for Caron Butler AND Antawn Jamison makes up for yesterday’s dearth of C’s trade talk.

Categories: Boston Celtics, Ray Allen, Shawn McGrath, Trades, washington wizards

As expected, serious talks about dealing Ray Allen are coming from the Celtics front office. The latest round involved Ray going to Washington for Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison. Though the trade is not a done deal, the talks sound to have moved to “serious.”
From Yahoo! Sports via Celticsblog:
The proposed deal would send the expiring [...]

Categories: Boston Celtics, Breaking News, Ray Allen, Trades, Uncategorized, washington wizards

After yesterday’s meeting of the minds with Red’s Army, I found myself re-reading everyone’s thoughts on why the Celtics are struggling in 2010. I re-enforced my belief to the guys that the root of the team’s struggles are chemistry issues. I was encouraged that the rest of the “round table” found the issues to be [...]

Categories: Boston Celtics, Kevin Garnett, Los Angeles Lakers, Nick Gelso, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Uncategorized

Say it aint so Danny!
As most of you know, I have been an advocate to keep Ray Allen in Boston since the trade rumors initially started circulating. Even with the Celtics in a state of disarray and though I (for a day) flip flopped on whether to trade Ray or not, I still would not [...]

Categories: Big Three, Boston Celtics, Breaking News, Nick Gelso, Ray Allen, Trades, Uncategorized

Ray Allen, the victim of rampant trade rumors recently, was quoted by Julian Benbow, of the Boston Globe(this week’s guest on the Celtics Late Night Show), as offering advise to Rajon Rondo and his aspirations for the 2010 Celtics squad.
From The Boston Globe:
“I told him, ‘You’ve got 10, 12-plus years left in the NBA, you’re [...]

Categories: Boston Celtics, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen

I feel the need to get this out of the way before I go any further with this post, as I’ve witnessed some extremely visceral responses to past suggestions that moving Ray Allen might be a beneficial course of action for Danny Ainge to choose. Ray Allen is a consummate professional, one of the greatest shooters of all time, the kind of teammate you’d want beside you in the trenches, and, from everything I have seen, read, or heard whispered while riding the escalator at the Garden, a real family man and class-act off the court. Celtics fans will always be grateful for his contributions 2007-2008, and watching his one-man, 51 pt bombardment of the Chicago Bulls during last year’s playoffs was one of the highlights of my basketball-watching life.

Categories: Boston Celtics, Ray Allen, Shawn McGrath, Trades

I’m going to make a prediction for tomorrow’s Lakers/Celtics game.  My prediction? Pain.  Specifically the hernia I experience after a crushing 96-90 loss.

Normally, I wouldn’t care.  I mean, why should I?  I’m a Laker fan living in Los Angeles. My existence largely consists of double-fisting supermodels and championships while searching for acting roles that do [...]

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Danny Ainge is in a precarious situation with the brewing Ray Allen debate. It was twenty two seasons ago that Danny Ainge was traded from the Boston Celtics for Joe Klien and Ed Pinckney. The Boston Celtics were faced with a depleted front line as Larry Bird would sit out for the entire season with [...]

Categories: Big Three, Bill Russell, Boston Celtics, Celtics Legends, Celtics Players, Danny Ainge, Nick Gelso, Ray Allen, Uncategorized

Ray Allen’s expiring contract has now taken center stage. During the eight months we have seen the future of Glen (Uno Uno) Davis and Rajon Rondo come into question, get shopped and remain in Boston with higher paid salary extensions. Now Ray Allen’s future seems to be going down the same path. Hearing sound bytes [...]

Categories: Big Three, Boston Celtics, Celtics Players, Danny Ainge, Nick Gelso, Ray Allen