The Boston Celtics are old. In signing Jermaine O'Neal and Shaquille O'Neal they certainly didn't make themselves any younger. On the other hand they have some key players that are relatively young in Rajon Rondo and Kendrick Perkins, and they went to the NBA finals last year. The question then becomes, are they too old now? For that matter, how old is too old?
The Boston Celtics are old. In signing Jermaine O'Neal and Shaquille O'Neal they certainly didn't make themselves any younger. On the other hand they have some key players that are relatively young in Rajon Rondo and Kendrick Perkins, and they went to the NBA finals last year. The question then becomes, are they too old now? For that matter, how old is too old? That question may be impossible to ...
The Boston Celtics have prided themselves on defense. But a funny thing happened on their way to a second NBA title in three years. Their offense let them down.
The Boston Celtics have brought the mercurial Delonte West back to Boston. Off court issues while in Cleveland dominated his season last yearm and he lost his starting position because of it. After settling his case, the NBA has decided to suspend him for the first 10 games for the 2010-11 season.
The Celtics have kept Kobe Bryant at bay so far. Can they keep it up? No chance, Mike Freeman says. Sooner or later, perhaps in Game 5 on Sunday, Ko-Me will finally explode and leave the Celtics in shambles.
By the looks of things, parity is now dying in the NBA. During recent years, the league has adopted an, if you can't beat them, join them mentality, as a trend has begun to develop in which superstar players have sought to team up with, rather than compete against, one another. As a result, the gap between the strong and the weak has begun to widen, with only a few superteams now actually ...
The Boston Celtics have brought the mercurial Delonte West back to Boston . Off court issues while in Cleveland dominated his season last yearm and he lost his starting position because of it. After settling his case, the NBA has decided to suspend him for the first 10 games for the 2010-11 season. His fall from NBA grace may just have given the Celtics an insurance policy against Rajon Rondo's ...
Defense wins championships, so they say. Well, it's only won one so far for the Celtics, and it's unlikely to win them another -- even if the C's are on top of the basketball world next June, holding the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
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On June 17, 2010, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics in an epic, defensively-orientated seven game series to repeat as NBA champions. During the summer of 2010, the landscape of the NBA has changed and although it seems that the power has shifted to the East somewhat, the NBA championship and the league's best team still remain in the West. Every free agent move in the summer of ...
--G Tony Allen had a few things to say about the Celtics once he arrived in Memphis as a free agent. Being in Boston I was kind of overshadowed by those guys, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, Allen said. Here's a ballclub who's on the rise and a lot of guys can make names for themselves.
Just one decade ago, the gap between the Celtics and any other team was colossal. Even considering that the Green had not won a championship since 1986, their closest competitors, the Los Angeles Lakers, had only 11 titles to Boston's 16. That, along with the Celtics' rich history, made them an easy pick as the NBA's greatest franchise. And then the tide began to turn... Over the next 10 years ...
