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New: I sat with Brad Stevens at one of his son Brady’s high school games.
It was fascinating to see one of basketball’s ultra-competitive minds try to turn that off for two hours and just be a dad.
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“Man, you’re in the Garden with me. You can go anywhere you want. Come on.”
Jayson Tatum met a young cancer patient 2 months ago, and it was nice. But Tatum wanted it to turn into something more, and it has.
And that’s where his 51-point game ball went.
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Joe Mazzulla just walked past Marcus Smart in the locker room, did a full somersault in front of him, turned and said ‘you can’t do that.” Then walked out.
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Tatum on Grant taking his kiss of death celebration:
"He was too excited, too hyped. He was jumping. I was like, ‘Grant, it’s still the 2nd qtr.’ So I pulled him aside & said, ‘You can do it, but I’m cool when I do it. I look cool. You didn’t look cool. You looked like a kid.'"
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Tatum: "None of this means anything if we don't hang a banner."
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Per source, Jaylen Brown requested that instead of a formal press conference at Auerbach Center, his extension will be announced at his 7uice Bridge Program, a collab with MIT for minority high school students.
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New: Sources said Marcus Smart was completely shocked by last night’s trade and is still trying to process it today.
“Marcus loves Boston. He thought he was going to retire there. He wanted to retire there.”
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Kemba was asked if that felt like a playoff game. Cracked a big smile. “You’re asking the wrong guy about the playoffs.”
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Pretty great two-part Twitter story here. IT is a truly good dude.
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Kyrie: "Being guarded by Brandon Ingram most of the game, I can’t even lie to you guys, those guys on the defensive end are unusual. Driving lanes that I see against every other team, they were closing down the lane."
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Been in the Cs locker room for 5 mins and seems like Blake Griffin has been here 5 years. Engaging everyone and roasting Grant lol.
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Kemba: “I’ve never won this many games in a row. I’ve never had a start like this. I’m just loving the way I’m feeling after games.”
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Donovan Mitchell hanging out by the Cs locker room. Daps up Horford as he goes by.
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Tacko Fall is 6th in All-Star fan voting in the East frontcourt.
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Jaylen Brown’s technical foul for yelling toward the 76ers’ bench after having his leg grabbed by Georges Niang has been rescinded.
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Bottom line is the Celtics need Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown to really become stars.
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The Celtics will sign Jeff Teague to a one-year deal, according to a league source.
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Doc Rivers is here for Pierce: “I’m gonna have a beer, yell at the refs the whole time, and I may even boo LeBron.”
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Can confirm that Danilo Gallinari plans to sign with the Celtics after clearing waivers, as
@wojespn
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Draymond on TNT just now: “We’re gonna play Boston. That’s who we’re gonna play.”
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Kyrie is sitting at his locker just staring straight ahead. Hasn’t showered yet. Most of the other players have already dressed and left.
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Blake: “I figure if I dunk once a game people will stop acting like it’s a miracle.”
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No NBA team has ever had a wilder two-year All-Star point guard roller-coaster than Isaiah to Kyrie to Kemba.
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Shoutout to Theis, btw. No one really knew who he was when he got to Boston but he turned into a reliable and important piece for the Celtics. Always seemed to treat people with respect, too.
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Marcus Smart was really the connective tissue of this Celtics era. From Isaiah to Kyrie to Tatum, he was the constant.
And he embraced being a Celtic as much as anyone. He lived it. Wild that it's over so suddenly.
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Draymond had a pretty bad lane violation on George Hill’s missed free throw too. Swooped into Tristan’s entire block.
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Duncan Robinson’s emergence on the world’s basketball stage is still surreal to those close to him in New England. His best friend Harry Rafferty was in the bubble, and at breakfast one morning LeBron stopped by.
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This is a cool moment. Cool of Murray to console Mitchell, and cool of Mitchell to immediately bounce up once he sees it’s Murray showing respect.
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Marcus Smart comes out of the showers and sees all the media.
“Y’all waiting on Kemba?”
(Some media people sort of nod/shrug)
“I’m Kemba’s spokesperson. He’ll be out in a few minutes. Please give him a little time.”
*turns around*
“Kemba hurry up!!”
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Truly wild that it was just two years ago that Kelly Olynyk and Kelly Oubre were scrapping, Isaiah was getting his teeth knocked out, and the Cs were showing up in DC in all black. Never forget the glory that was Celtics/Wizards.
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Tatum, Jaylen and Smart have 84 of the Celtics' 100 points.
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Per multiple league sources, a Celtics/Hornets sign-and-trade involving Gordon Hayward is still being discussed.
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Jayson Tatum just asked for Payton Pritchard’s permission to drink the last Muscle Milk in the cooler I never knew Pritchard was the Muscle Milk god. (Pritchard said it was ok.)
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Marcus Smart: "We’ve had star point guards, and yet this so-called non-point guard is the only one that’s led them to the Finals. I think that right there says enough."
A lot more here:
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Jaylen: "We’re a team. It doesn’t matter who rolls the ball out or which team is doing what, I got my money on the Cs…I don’t know if I can say that…Shit."
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The Lakers just grabbed one of the 5 best players in the world in his prime and some people are trying to roast them about the looming 2025 draft I love Twitter
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Isaiah Thomas had 42 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds in his G League debut for Grand Rapids tonight.
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Tatum’s mom said he thinks about his Cs legacy. This is another step.
“He wants to not just say that he played here his whole career, but that he brought the city of Boston a couple of banners and his number is retired. I’m certain he would love that.”
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Oshae Brissett’s grandmother has once again cooked the Celtics’ postgame spread in Toronto. Not a lot of talking in the locker room right now lol.
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Deleting videos from my phone and anyway here's Markelle Fultz making a million 3s on Monday
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According to a league source the Celtics and 2nd round pick Carsen Edwards have come to terms on a guaranteed contract.
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Eddie House is here and wearing his own Celtics jersey, just a spectacular move.
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Not a big surprise, but I’ve been told the Celtics are expected to explore the possibility of trading for Jrue Holiday.
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Asked Smart if this was some kind of inside joke. He said he had no idea where it came from and what it was about lol. "We need to stop giving him sugar."
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According to a league source, the Celtics and forward Sam Hauser have agreed to a three-year deal worth approximately $6 million. The first two years are fully guaranteed.
Cs are hopeful Hauser can be a real contributor next season.
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Man just photo-shopped Grant right out of there lol
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Al Horford and Derrick White are a combined 11 for 15 from three. Wild.
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Kyrie: "Right now I think it would be nice if we had someone that was a 15-year vet, a 14-year vet that could kind of help us race along the regular season and understand it’s a long marathon rather than just a full-on sprint."
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New: Per source, 2nd round pick Carsen Edwards has agreed to a four-year deal with the Celtics that will pay him more than $4.5 million in guaranteed salary. The first 3 years are fully guaranteed and the 4th is a team option:
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According to a league source, the Celtics are signing center Mfiondu Kabengele to a two-way contract. The big man had a really strong showing in Vegas.
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Important locker room convos...
Tatum: “Tacko, me and you are gonna have to do a taco commercial:
Grant Williams: “Nah that’s my job. You already have a cologne.”
Tatum: “I’m Taco Jay. Look it up.”
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Ha Terry Rozier just threw in a pair of 30-footers while walking into film: “You know that’s cash too. Scary Terry back.”
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Sometimes I just think about the fact that the Celtics sent Tom Brady and Kelly Olynyk to recruit Kevin Durant together
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No clue how many games the Celtics will win next year but can promise that they will be fun and likable.
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I present to you...Tacko Fall signing a Kyrie Irving Jersey.
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Bottom line, per sources, is this: The Celtics knew that if they lost Kyrie after 2 years, the bounty they gave up to get him would not cripple them long-term, and If AD left after one, the bounty they would have had to give up would have crippled them long-term.
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Joe Mazzulla, what'd you say at halftime?
"Nothing."
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Rob Williams hinting now there’s a chance he could play vs Warriors.
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Celtics are having a half-court shooting contest and Danilo Gallinari just fired one up. (No jump)
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New: "I don't care how it looks. Get on my back." My Globe longform on how Celtics guard Terry Rozier has helped his sister Tre'Dasia, who has cerebral palsy, through 7 surgeries and other challenges, and how she has inspired him along the way:
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According to a league source, the Celtics created a $17.1 million trade exception in the Fournier sign-and-trade.
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Luke Kornet on dropping the ice-in-my-veins after his made free throw. “I don’t know, I see people do this when they make cool and impressive shots. And since the free throw in that context was a cool and impressive shot, I thought it was suitable.”
"ICE IN THE VEINS!!!" 🤣 🤣 🤣
We all just want Luke Kornet on our team
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Hayward: “we want to come out of Milwaukee with two wins, not one.”
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Ugh Aaron Judge is gonna sign with the Warriors isn't he
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The Celtics and Heat taking a knee for the anthem.
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Marcus Morris was told the 76ers were favored in each of the last two games.
"Were they favored?"
Yeah.
"They couldn’t have been favored the first two games, could they?"
Yeah they were.
"OK. Shit, this ain’t Miami."
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Smart on Embiid dust-up. Said he doesn’t think he was shown respect by refs as DPOY. Said Embiid tried to break his arm. Said his reaction showed maturity. “I could’ve cracked his head open, but I didn’t.”
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The 76ers had the NBA's third-ranked offense this season.
The Celtics didn't hold an opponent below 90 all year.
They did it three times in this series.
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The Celtics didn't have a single defensive rebound in the fourth quarter of their loss to the Bulls.
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Brad Stevens,fighting back tears, on Kobe: “My favorite part had been watching him transition to a dad and a coach.”
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Per sources, the Celtics have officially guaranteed center Daniel Theis's $5 million salary for this season. No surprise there.
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Brad Stevens' dad jokes are becoming a
#2018fav
How far do you see your team going this season?
"Well, London’s the furthest. L.A. probably next. I don’t know after that."
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This is as lively as the Cs locker room has been after a playoff game.
Deuce Tatum and Ean Horford were playing laundry basketball. Players laughing and joking.
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Gordon Hayward’s physical therapy team may be slightly inexperienced but they’re hard-working
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Wait, LeBron opened by saying he doesn’t know enough about the China situation to speak on it and then follows up by saying Daryl Morey isn’t educated on the topic? Come on.
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Smart: "I mean, we have Jayson Tatum, we have Kemba Walker, All-Stars. We have Jaylen Brown, potential All-Star. We have Gordon Hayward, was an All-Star. We got star guys, too. If that’s the case, we should be getting the same calls that those stars are getting."
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A Nets scout suffered a heart attack at practice. KG knew he had to help defeat this heart attack somehow, so he snapped into action as only he could.
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New Cs assistant Kara Lawson working with Carsen Edwards.
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Jaylen: "We played this game like we had it circled for a long time instead of just playing our game."
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“[Ime's] name got slandered & slaughtered and it was ‘He’ll probably never coach again.' And a couple months later he’s possibly going to be the coach of one of our biggest rivals. It’s tough. It makes no sense."
I spoke w/Marcus Smart, who's not pleased.
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This feels like it would be the preference of plenty of Cs fans
1) Let Kyrie walk
2) Pass on AD
3) Package some of these picks and grab a top-10 player to add to young Tatum/Jaylen/Smart core
4) Re-sign Horford long-term
5) Bring back Isaiah on a vet min and hope for the best
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According to a league source, the Celtics are expected to agree to a multi-year deal with Sam Hauser when the dust clears in the coming days, too.
Boston made that route pretty clear when it declined Hauser's team option for next year.
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According to multiple league sources, the completion of the Porzingis deal would likely mean that Grant Williams's time in Boston has come to an end.
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I have to admit the rage level about a team that’s in Game 6 of the NBA Finals seems a bit high these days lol.
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Jaylen Brown’s 78-year old grandpa once sparred with Muhammad Ali, and now he’s training Jaylen in quarantine. (Manning the stopwatch here as Jaylen goes full Rocky down his street in Boston lol)
Full story:
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Grant Williams said he got his tech for telling the ref: "Referee the game, not your emotions."
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New: "I mean, I was blowing by people. I haven’t blown by anybody since I had a Celtics uniform on...I really feel like I’m back.”
Finally healthy, Isaiah Thomas went to LA and played against KD & Kyrie. Now, he says, he's ready for a chance.
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Grant Williams on where his relationship with Joe Mazzulla stands.
A lot more here:
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Lol Terry Rozier (bottom comment) is disappointed Tatum didn’t go with his true poster dunk of the night for Instagram
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An eviction notice. Asking neighbors for food. Warming bath water on a stovetop. Jayson Tatum wanted a better life, so he and his mother made one. My Globe longform on the Celtics rookie’s journey to the top:
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Jaylen on Kyrie anger: "I don’t think anybody in Boston should have anything to complain or boo about...I think we’re winning, playing good basketball, the Celtics look good, Boston fans should be nothing but happy. I think energy should shift from that to being more positive."
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The departure of Isaiah Thomas will hit a lot of people hard in Boston. He was at the center of this revival and definitely bled green.
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Payton Pritchard, detailed self-description.
"I wouldn't be in the position I am today without having a tough mindset. A lot of people look at me and I’m a 6-foot-1, white, American guard. A lot of us aren't there. So you’ve got to be tough and bring it every day.”
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