CELTICS 2010

looking at rosters around the league and there are so many random vets i'd take over half of these guys they're keeping around.

yeah at the very least i feel like they could move on from semi tacko and carsen without much risk

could we have langston galloway? hell, could we have glenn robinson iii?

there are guys out there

kyrie is a portlandia skit

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpyJRBGUwAEE_Ev?format=jpg&name=medium

evan hello

6-foot-10 giant jayson tatum basically earned $194m of his $195m tonight. they only have to pay him $1 million for the next five years if my math is right.

wasn't always pretty but that was a nice win after they looked like complete trash in the preseason.

https://i.imgur.com/w5I3fMf.png

would be cool

😬

James Harden’s list of preferred destinations now includes the Boston Celtics and Portland TrailBlazers, sources tell @TheAthletic.

Inside another wild week in Houston— reported with @sam_amick https://t.co/QPFLJLbV9L

— Kelly Iko (@KellyIkoNBA) December 24, 2020

☹️

Not sure why Harden mentioned PDX. Maybe he just wants to hang out with Melo?

most strip clubs per capita duh

the scene in boston is not amazing if anyone wants to let him know.

lol

payton pritchard looking like a pretty nice find

yeah he's a player

As I read him, he's in the Chris Mullin mold, but not quite at that level. He was a nice pick up that deep in the first round.

the classic mold of a 2020 basketball player, chris mullin

btw in the brief time i was hanging out on the ilh draft zoom Pritchard was drafted and they cut to his family's house party thing and I said "wow but the interior of that house looks like every house in the suburb i grew up in" and lo and behold they showed the city name and it was the one about 4 miles south, god bless the worst of aesthetics

he's a natural point guard who's 5 inches shorter so absolutely no idea on the mullin thing, but i fondly remember your suburban oregon flashback

5 inches shorter

I indicated he was not at Mullins' level.

afaict the mullins comp comes down to "white guy with crew cut" and ends there, mullin played the 3-4 and sure as shit wasn't shooting at a nearly 40% clip from 3 (I am not looking this up but it is true bc I was alive in the 90s)

both are/were total gym rats

brad showing a lot of faith in pritchard in this one, he looks to be a matchup problem but otherwise a high ceiling

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqdUYO4UUAQEUQD?format=jpg&name=large

lol

Such a fun pass from Robert Williams. pic.twitter.com/1MS2NH1RFP

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) December 31, 2020

omg. he has such a weird acute basketball iq sometimes.

jaylen brown career high 44 in 29mins

42 rather

yeah i'm going to need to go back and rewatch this one.

failed to plan my evening around the 2nd night of a back 2 back vs. the grizz

i only watched the 1st half grizz werent putting up much resistance and the celtics were hitting every 3 so

both ja and jjj out

yeah going to be a rough couple of weeks for the grizzles

jaylen coming out blazing

Jaylen Brown season stats through five games:

28 PPG, 56.2% FG, 44% 3pt, 6.2 FTA/G

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) December 31, 2020

true, true

Jaylen Brown on what he has improved the most since joining the NBA: “I think it’s kind of hard to point out. I think everything is something I’ve been working on. .... I wouldn’t even be able to tell you, but everything I feel like I’ve gotten better at.”

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) December 31, 2020

http://i.imgur.com/CmL2biU.jpg

Tacko + Marcus buddy cop movie waiting to happen

2k definitely needs a hair/accessories update

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqxtzDTW4AwYU_S?format=jpg&name=900x900

lol what is that from?

larry and bill seeing the dead in worcester, that must have been wild.

idk got the clip off twitter

bill walton was a fantastic top-tier hoops player and is a deeply weird person.

my key memory of bill walton as a sports announcer was him doing a national game with marv albert in the immediate aftermath of albert's sexual assault case in '97 ()before the network fired Marv... for those who weren't around or may have forgotten, here's the wiki:

Albert became embroiled in a sexual assault scandal in 1997. A 42-year-old woman named Vanessa Perhach accused Albert of throwing her onto a bed, biting her, then forcing her to perform oral sex after a February 12, 1997 argument in his Pentagon City hotel room. DNA testing linked Albert to genetic material taken from the bite marks and from semen in Perhach's underwear. During the trial, testimony was presented from another woman, Patricia Masden, who told the jury Albert had bitten her on two different occasions in 1993 and 1994 in Miami and Dallas hotels respectively, which she viewed as unwanted sexual advances. Masden claimed that in Dallas, Albert called her to his hotel room to help him send a fax, only for her to find him wearing "white panties and garter belt". Albert maintained that Perhach had requested that he bite her and denied her accusation he had asked her to bring another man into their sexual affair. He described the recorded conversation of hers with the police on the night of the incident as "an Academy Award performance". After tests proved that the bite marks were his, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges, while the sodomy charge was dropped. Albert was given a 12-month suspended sentence.

So anyway, there was a series of plays where walton was clearly actively needling albert about it on-air, talking about how some player was "chomping at the bit" to play and "hungry to tear into the competition" and "sharpening his teeth" and at a certain point he asked Marv for his opinion about something like if such and such player was ready to take a bite out of the league. Then the booth went completely silent for like a possession and a half and when they came back, it was just Marv calling plays and Bill completely shut up for the quarter. If that had happened during the twitter era, it would've been national news, as it stands I've never met anyone who remembers having heard that game.

that’s outstanding.

this idea of playing theis and thompson together makes no sense and has not worked

u need rudy gay rn