Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It was a full-team effort with 12 Bruins registering at least a point in the win. The Boston Bruins held onto a two-period lead to close out the final 20 minutes and open up the game, coming away with a 7-3 win over the Tampa Bay …
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Yukihito Taguchi-USA TODAY Sports We’re going to get a decision soon. It seems like we’re reaching an endgame with respect to the Yoshinobu Yamamoto sweepstakes, and we have reports that the Sox have offered the Japanese ace a contract worth over $300 million. That’s well above most of the contract estimates we were seeing at …
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Zappe had a very good game except for two plays. He was 19 of 28, for 240 yards and 3 TDs. The Interception was at a very bad time. The post MORSE: 14 Observation From the Big Patriots’ Victory Over Steelers appeared first on PatsFans.com.
With the Grizzlies signing free agent Bismack Biyombo, the perfect free agent target for the Boston Celtics has been taken off the board. With every perfect plan, though, is a perfect backup plan. Enter Derrick Favors. Like Biyombo, Favors is sturdy and can fight at the rim for second opportunities and to curtail them for …
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Notable NBA writer for The Ringer’s Michael Pina thinks Kristaps Porzingis’s importance to the Boston Celtics is “more essential than originally expected.” “Porzingis poses some fascinating and perhaps more meaningful basketball questions,” Pina prefaced before saying, “Where and how often will he get his touches? Who does he fit best next to? Boston’s success hinges …
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When the Boston Celtics first executed the Grant Williams sign-and-trade, they received a $6.2 million trade exception, but there were some caveats upon first getting that TPE. It was around that time that the Celtics had crossed the NBA’s first tax apron but were trying to avoid the second tax apron at all costs. While …
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The Neemias Queta hype train has left the station following the third game of the Boston Celtics preseason slate; a 112-101 win over the Philadelphia 76ers from the Wells Fargo Center on October 11. In seven minutes of floor time, Queta went 4/4 from the field and 2/2 from the free-throw line for 10 points, …
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While painful for everyone involved, trading Robert Williams III “had” to be done by the Boston Celtics according to CelticsBlog’s Bobby Manning — who made the case that the team’s floor is higher but their ceiling is lower now that the Time Lord (plus Malcolm Brogdon and draft picks) has been turned into Jrue Holiday. …
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There’ve been many a Damian Lillard trade proposals involving the Boston Celtics, but the latest from NBA Analysis Network would keep all of the projected starters ahead of the 2023-24 season and add the seven-time All-NBA point guard — creating a Big Five starting lineup of Lillard, Derrick White, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, and Kristaps …
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Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Career bests? Always a good sign. The 2022-2023 regular season was a season of career bests for many players on the Boston Bruins, and Trent Frederic got in on the party. Playing in all but three regular season games, Frederic set career highs in goals, assists, …
Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen helped lead the Boston Celtics to their 17th NBA championship back in 2008. They went on to play another four seasons as a trio, with Pierce and Garnett playing an extra year in 2013, after Allen joined the Miami Heat the summer prior. Unfortunately, they were never able …
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Sports Illustrated’s Chris Herring denied that he had reported that Boston Celtics big man Blake Griffin was on the verge of retiring on Twitter by quote tweeting a parody news aggregation and telling them “FOH” after they claimed Herring reported such news. FOH. I’m on a beach somewhere; I didn’t report that. https://t.co/F87fpnM3FF — Chris …
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Sports Illustrated’s Chris Herring denied that he had reported that Boston Celtics big man Blake Griffin was on the verge of retiring on Twitter by quote tweeting a parody news aggregation and telling them “FOH” after they claimed Herring reported such news. FOH. I’m on a beach somewhere; I didn’t report that. https://t.co/F87fpnM3FF — Chris …
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Danny Ainge-era big man Kelly Olynyk liked the idea of a reunion with the Boston Celtics at the 2023 trade deadline when such rumors popped up, but as the 31-year-old told Heavy’s Steve Bulpett, he isn’t looking to leave the Jazz — a franchise Ainge is now in control of — to return to the …
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The Boston Celtics are a team that could be returning their starting center, Robert Williams III, away from being the top contender in the conference. With the Cleveland Cavaliers, who narrowly beat the Cs in their two matchups thus far, falling off a bit, no team — outside of a fully healthy Milwaukee Bucks team …
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With two consecutive losses to teams with size and strength in the frontcourt, it might be time for the Boston Celtics to start considering deals that would add talent to their own depleted depth chart down low to counter to bridge the gap between now and Robert Williams’ return from a knee injury. In an …
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Former Boston Celtics big man Kendrick Perkins, a starter on the 2007-08 NBA Championship squad and a current ESPN analyst, called this past September’s Ime Udoka suspension episode a ‘soap opera’ in a recent tweet. The message ultimately was a pro-Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown one, but in the process, he called out Udoka and …
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It’s become a nearly annual ritual for Boston Celtics fans — that is, the trick of figuring out how to fill out a proper depth chart with multiple options in the frontcourt. Back in 2019-20, after an exodus of big men like Al Horford and Aron Baynes, the Cs relied on a platoon of Daniel …
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It’s not hard to see where the Boston Celtics could lack talent-wise during the opening stretch of the 2022-23 season — most notably, in the frontcourt where Robert Williams III and Luke Kornet will be injured for the first portion of the season. We know it’ll be a while before Williams will be healthy. According …
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Back before the second Boston Celtics preseason game on October 5 against the Toronto Raptors — a game the Cs had a lead but blew late in the fourth quarter and overtime to move to 1-1 on the exhibition slate –, CelticsBlog’s Jeff Clark advocated for Noah Vonleh to make the roster ahead of the …
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Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens has an interesting Twitter history that Hardwood Houdini was not privy to until NBC Sports Boston’s Bobby Manning pointed it out on Saturday morning. Stevens, who joined Twitter in 2009, had never liked a single tweet during his 13 years on the social media platform until Twitter …
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