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After reading the headline of this article, former Celtics head coach Rick Pitino might react by screaming out something like, “All the negativity in this town sucks!” After all, the Celtics just won two straight games on the road in the Eastern Conference Finals and are now just two wins away from making the NBA Finals as the series now shifts back home to Boston…Yet I find something to criticize. The ...

Rajon Rondo's Game Four performance was an instant classic that will not soon be forgotten.  Rondo finished with 29 points, 18 rebounds, and 13 assists.  Anyone who watched SportsCenter after the game now knows that only two other players in the history of the NBA Playoffs put up those kind of numbers.  One is Oscar Robertson and the other is Wilt Chamberlain. Following the Celtics' victory on Sunday ...

Tonight, the Celtics finished off the Miami Heat winning the series 4-1. The Cleveland Cavaliers closed out their series against the Chicago Bulls 4-1 as well setting up a rematch of the 2008 Eastern Conference Semifinals starting this Saturday.   Is Cleveland a great team? Of course they are. They wouldn't have had the best record in the NBA if they weren't. Are they beatable? Yes. Can ...

Dwyane Wade and his Miami Heat showed very early on that they meant business in Game Three on Friday night.  But ultimately, it was "The Truth" that closed out the game by draining a step-back jumper at the end of regulation to put Miami in the hole three games to none in the series. Paul Pierce played magnificently, scoring 22 of his 32 points in the second half, nabbing eight boards, and nailing the game ...

There was a playoff atmosphere in the Bradley Center on Saturday night as both the Celtics and the Bucks looked to set the tone for a potential first round playoff matchup.   After getting trounced at home by the Washington Wizards the night before, the Celtics needed to come out and make a statement. That statement would not come from Kevin Garnett, however, as the Celtics chose to give him the ...

Rasheed Wallace has suffered consequences from the officials who have given him technical fouls all season long and even ejected him from a game as well. Wallace has suffered consequences from the league itself, who fined him $35,000 in January and $30,000 back in November. This past Sunday, 'Sheed finally suffered consequences from head coach, Doc Rivers, who benched him in the second half of the Cleveland game following a Wallace temper tantrum in a contest that the Celtics managed ...

Rajon Rondo led the Celtics' charge with a triple-double as Boston began their home stand Wednesday night by exacting revenge on a Denver Nuggets team who defeated them by nine in February.  In the second half of the game, legendary Celtics color man Tommy Heinsohn listed his Top Four Veteran Point Guards along with his Top Four Young Point Guards.  Denver's Chauncey Billups appeared second on Tommy's veteran list while Rajon Rondo appeared first on the young guns list.  Rick Pitino ...

The Celtics pulled off yet another win on the road Saturday night against Dallas, and Paul Pierce continues to look more and more like the dominant and versatile player that Celtics fans have become accustomed to seeing over the last decade and change. Pierce went into the game shooting 58 percent from the floor in the Celtics' previous five contests, and finished Saturday's game with 29 points, five assists, and two steals.  With 1:45 to ...