John Zannis
@John_Zannis
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President @CLNSMedia, "Garden Report" Host, Fmr Content Dir. @NBCSBoston, Professor @EmersonCollege, #Celtics, #Patriots, #Phish
Joined March 2009
@TheCinesthetic “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.” They only liked him after they found out he was special.
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It really is remarkable that the most accountable person in the entire organization is a 22-year-old kid with two career starts under his belt.
Drake Maye says that the sack he took late against the Jags was due to a mistake he made in the pocket, made a point of telling Mike Onwenu that it wasn’t on him.
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Holy business decision by Aaron Rodgers. Bench worthy play.
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So Giannis is exempt from charges and goaltending. That’s gonna make things harder.
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The Red Sox should really consider moving Rafael Devers back to 3rd base so he can build back up his confidence by committing a bunch of errors to go with all those strikeouts.
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Reminder that Mike Vrabel is low-key responsible for launching the Patriots Dynasty. Patriots were hanging on but Rams looked poised to blow doors open in Super Bowl XXXVI till Vrabel pressure resulted in Ty Law pick 6. Changed the game. Rest is history.
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If Tatum misses all of next season there will be no Boston teams that begin their season with any legitimate shot at winning a title for the first time in 25 years.
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Jaylen Brown: I don't like the city, I don't trust the organization, the team's star wanted to trade me for KD, I'm under-appreciated, I've made a lot of sacrifices & I'm not sure I want to return. C's fans: What is he trying to say? There's really no way of knowing.
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In slow mo there's a little "game, blouses" to Jaylen's dunk on LeBron.
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This guy would have been such a great dynasty era Patriot.
Jabrill Peppers: Needed this win for players and Bill Belichick/coaches; don’t like all the flak Belichick has been taking.
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Maye is him. People will nitpick but this is insane for a guy playing 3rd full game. He's miles ahead of where Patriots thought he'd be by this point.
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Not gonna lie, don't love the hop-step limp after the landing.
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Wyc after re-signing every single core member of the 2024 #Celtics championship team to lucrative contract extension.
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Celtics won't add Smart or extra picks. Suns won't move Booker. Heat won't give up Bam. Raptors won't include Barnes. No teams showing any urgency, content to just run it back. Unwilling to blow up core for KD or acquiesce to Nets demands. That should tell us something, no?.
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The Tatum end of game iso stepback works zero percent of the time but hey, why not try it again just in case?.
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“We just didn’t come out with enough energy tonight.”. - Every Celtics postgame interview.
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BREAKING: Kevin Durant has just informed Brad Stevens he no longer wants to play for the Celtics and is demanding the team start exploring potential trades.
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This sets the rebuild back another 2 years. Just a total disaster.
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For the 15th roster spot, Lonnie Walker IV is an A+++signing.
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I’m not emotionally ready to be angry and tired 12 hours from now so really need a #Celtics win tonight for my general mental and physical well being.
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Jaylen either hasn't done ANY homework here, or worse, he has. Massively disappointing either way.
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Made all the sense in the world financially for #Celtics to trade this pick. Fact that they didn't leads me to believe Brad/Joe LOVED Scheierman.
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Stark difference in the reactions and accountability from #NHLBruins & #Celtics following losses last night to inferior and shorthanded opponents. Bruins: It's on us. Celtics: It happens.
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Fully healthy when Rob returns, I just don’t know who beats this team.
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Trent Frederic was fuming heading to the dressing room, screaming, presumably at Ryan Lomberg for attempting to choke him while the two were on the ice. Had to be restrained.
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Based strictly off of pregame, warm-ups I can safely predict Jayson Tatum will score 125 points tonight. Seriously hasn’t missed.
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Most disheartening thing of the half was Spoelstra mic'd up telling his team that Celtics can only win if they hit 3s. So basically, do the one thing I told you to do and we beat this team easily was his message.
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More baffling than not upholding the foul call on Jaylen was giving the Pacers possession. If the whistle blows there, everyone stops playing. Shouldn’t that have been a jump ball?.
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After last game, Jaylen and Marcus talked about how the Celtics needed to play with more focus, energy and do all the little things. Apparently neither listened to their own advice.
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Tatum, White, Porzingis, Holiday, Horford all out for tonight's MEANINGLESS game against Orlando. Jaylen Brown: Questionable. What are we doing here?
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This is such a no-brainer. No one knows what kind of head coach he’ll make but take a big swing at the best offensive mind in football and try and lock in your Mahomes Reid pairing for the next 15 years.
If this whole thing is about Maye then you gotta take the guy that took Goff from the brink of extinction and has him averaging 4500 yards and 30+ TD's a year over his last 3 years. You get Vrable now you gotta find an offensive genius to come with him. Just hire the genius as HC
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He must be stopped.
Jerod Mayo: Drake is our starting quarterback. If he’s healthy and ready to go, he’ll play.
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Came to me like in a dream but I legitimately think Tom Brady is going to be quarterback of the #Patriots next season. I feel it in my bones.
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Checking in on some former #Celtics who started last season w/ team. 🤮 IND: Aaron Nesmith: 3 pts (1-8) 23 min.😬 SA: Romeo Langford: 4 pts, 9 garbage time min.👎 SA: Josh Richardson: 0 pts, 17 min.🚑 LA: Dennis Schröder: Injured.🤷♂️ FOX News: Enes Kanter Freedom: Out of league.
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I'm sorry I ever said a negative thing about Luke Kornet. I take it all back.
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If Derrick White is the best player on the best team in the world is he therefore the best player in the world?.
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I’m way up on the ninth floor watching Kristaps Porziņģis go through his pregame warm-ups. He’s doing much more than we’ve seen him do to this point.
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Tatum behind the back pass to Horford for the corner 3 was one of the best plays he's ever made in his career under any circumstances.
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There's just no words for how big an impact that Jayson Tatum injury could have on the #Celtics today, next year and long term. Just devastating.
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Joe Mazzulla confirms it. Rob Williams is pretty much ready to return as soon as he gets himself into game shape. Training camp begins today.
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An absolute steal.
Boston Celtics guard Derrick White has agreed on a four-year, $125.9 million contract extension, sources tell ESPN. The deal includes a player option. Huge offseason priority for the champs.
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Nights like this why it's impossible to quit the #Celtics no matter what they do the game before. Their best is better than everyone else's best by a good margin.
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This team, man. Tatum still ice cold, JB sits entire quarter in foul trouble. Missing 3 of top 7 players. Freaking Wagon.
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I don't expect Rob Williams to start knocking down or even taking 15 foot jumpers with regularity any more than I expect Ben Simmons to start jacking 3s. BUT. the fact that he's actually working on his game and getting in shape in his 1st fully healthy offseason is huge.
Rob Williams is healthy and working to make strides on both ends of the floor this off-season! @celtics
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Someone lip read this. Sure looks like Jonathan Kraft is frustrated by what’s happening down on the field. Shaking his head. Also, it appears he’s scrolling down some notes?
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"They really do not have an answer for Kornet" is a thing that was just said during a game broadcast. And it's 100% true.
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Premiere matchup and TNT spent the entire broadcast almost apologizing for the amount of 3s these 2 teams were shooting or about to shoot. Like, "avert your eyes everyone, the 3s are coming!" Not to mention Inside the NBA halftime segment breaking down why 3s are bad.
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After finishing his media availability, Joe Mazzulla stopped at a television to pick apart an ESPN segment on the Mavericks pick and roll in front of a group of reporters. Joe not having any of the noise right now.
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Fu-k Sabonis for real. Dirty shit. Can pretend you didn't mean it but it's reckless a hell.
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Brady to Patriots on 2 year deal. Mac to Vegas. Pats draft OT in Round 1, WR in round 2 and trade 3rd for Hopkins who restructures to stay in NE. And we're off and running. .
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Celtics have humbled a couple "contenders" in the last week. Denver at home and Atlanta tonight. Just on a higher plain of existence right now.
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I would like to apologize in advance for everything I’m going to say later on tonight. Emotions high and patience very thin.
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Honestly, it’s better that Dallas has their best shooting game and the Celtics have their worst in the same game. Flush it and move on.
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The Celtics best player and the Celtics second best player having a conversation on the court.
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Jrue Holiday ruled out again. Man, this thing could linger.
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If Lonnie Walker makes the #Celtics opening day roster they will definitely repeat. If he doesn’t, I’m not so sure.
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I've said it at various points throughout the season but Porzingis' injury setbacks and weird illness have been blessing in disguise. Well rested, fully healthy KP entering playoffs is nightmare fuel for rest of NBA.
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Waiting for the Tatum news is excruciating. It’s like scrolling for election results. For the love of God tell us what’s going on in Maricopa County!!!!.
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Amazing. Best clutch performance by #Celtics all season. Did everything right down the stretch.
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Tatum and Brown both becoming free agents in 2029 feels like when the network announces the final season of your favorite show.
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Not going to go so far as to say this loss undoes all the good that came before it this season. It doesn’t. But a lot of people nationwide are going to really question what the Celtics are made of after tonight’s performance.
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I just want #Celtics fans to brace themselves. The national narrative is not going to be about Brown's superstar turn, or C's being 2 wins away from 2nd Finals appearance in 3 years. It's gonna be. 1. What's wrong with Tatum?. 2. How much EASIER can Celtics path to Finals be?.
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I’m glad this is happening to Tatum. Grow up. Can’t go through another full season of this with him. Clean it up now.
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The Shams “report“ is not news and it shouldn’t be treated as such. The #Celtics face a difficult economic reality this off-season which we’ve known about for two years. This is just putting more quarters into the click machine.
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Players not doing their part but. Tatum sat too long. Grant stayed in too long. Al for Rob was a mistake.
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This is not Joe vs the media. This is a thin skinned, potentially immature HC doing oppo research on a reporter in order to gain the upper hand in a petty public squabble. And it was nowhere near the gotcha moment Joe probably envisioned it to be during rehearsal.
Joe Mazzulla had an interesting exchange with @GwashburnGlobe after the #Celtics loss to the #Sixers 🤣. ⚡️by @FDSportsbook & @HelloFresh
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FWIW, the Jaylen for Durant reports are DEFINITELY coming from Brooklyn side. Doesn't mean they are total BS but Nets must be freaking over lack of Durant market and starting to get desperate to drive up interest.
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It's hilarious how some people are realizing this NOW. Like, C's were these dudes all year. Ridiculously dominant to the point of being boring. Can see picking against them to manufacture narratives/content but still legit baffled by anyone who picked Dallas & actually meant it.
.@Espngreeny makes an argument that this years Celtics were one of the most dominant teams in NBA history 👀
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It’s almost unfathomable, but the NBA’s 2 minute report is a bigger mess than what transpired on the court last night between the #Celtics and Pacers.
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Why Jayson Tatum actually had an awesome game and you don’t know ball. My column….
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#Celtics vs Mavs Practice report. 🏀 Mavericks didn't practice, Celtics did. 👎 Several Mavs were openly critical of Doncic handling of refs. 🍾 Celtics were super loose but don't seem to be celebrating up 3-0. Eyes firmly on the prize. 👀 Kristaps practiced and looks good?
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WTF is Colin Cowherd talking about here regarding Mac Jones? . "We've heard some things and they're not good." . Can't just throw sh-t like that out there.
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Steve Kerr’s decision to not play Jayson Tatum a single minute has given me no choice but to root for Canada to win the gold. My column….
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Wonder if there’s a wink wink deal with Lonnie Walker in place. Hang in Maine for a month or two and we’ll move some money around and get you up here for good.
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What a turnaround by Jaylen. Not just the shots going in. Just so much smarter and in control in the 2nd half. Making all the right reads.
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So did Joe coach better tonight or did the players finally just play harder and do what he always wants them to do (play fast, move the ball, shoot more 3s).
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Tatum had been on best behavior prior to that tech. Virtually no beefing with the refs all night. Then he has a justified complaint and gets whacked with a T. Go figure.
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