Stoudemire Return For Knicks In Game 3

So Amar'e is going to be back Game 3 for the Knicks barring any setbacks. You can argue either way if that is a good or bad thing, but I think it's a good thing. The Knicks have done very well when Melo is playing PF, but this is a series that I really think they need another big body. The Pacers are a big team, that can play post defense. The Knicks tried to go small and got their ass kicked. If Stoudemire is healthy he could as least help limit the damage underneath.

The bottom line is that the series is over if the Knicks aren't draining 3's. JR Smith is really the key, he needs to be a sharp shooter, and he hasn't been good since mid way through the Celtics series.

It's so aggravating watching the Knicks, because if the Celtics had Rondo they would've beaten them. I'm not saying the Celtics would've won it all or anything, because they had some serious flaw even with Rondo, but they are better than the Knicks.

So Is Rose Just A Huge Pussy?

The Bulls roster is a mess. They are all banged up, but yet here they are going against the Heat and maybe the healthiest person on the roster is Rose and he refuses to play. You never like to call a guy out when he is hurt, but when is this going to become too much. It's been over a month now that he has been cleared to play. Reports say he looks amazing in practice, and yet he still in wearing a suit on the bench.

Rose has a serious image problem going right now. We see guys like AP come back and less time and tear it up. We know Rondo would be out there if he was even 70%, and Rose is supposed to be one of the best players in the league, and he isn't out there.

Like I said, you hate to call a guy out when he is hurt. We don't know how he feels or what he is going through his head, but it would be tough to be a teammate of his, see him practicing and playing well, and not think "Why the fuck isn't he playing, when I am out there". Noah is playing on one leg, Where ya at Rose?

Why Not?

Pretty sure Jordan Crawford just told Melo, "That's why he fucked your wife"

Celtics @ Knicks Game 5 Preview

So we are once again at that emotional game where it could be the Celtics last. Paul Pierce's contract next year is non guaranteed, and you never know when KG could walk away (I think both will be back). Yet, the Celtics have always been a tough out.

The Knicks won the first three games of this series, holding the Celtics to 75 ppg. In game 3 the Celtics scored 54 points in the first half and led by 20 early in the third quarter before they once again hit the offensive wall, and they were limited to just 30 points in the third and fourth quarters.

There is a ton of things going against the Celtics in this game. As I just stated their offense overall has been horrid. They have to go to NY, and JR Smith is back.

I am sure everyone and their mother are expecting this series to be over tonight. What have I learned from being a Celtics fan? Never count out Pierce and KG. I know there isn't much reason for hope, and the Knicks are favored by 8, but I still the Celtics win tonight.

Celtics win 94-92 (OT)
Tommy Award: KG
Game starts at 7:05pm

Kings No Longer Moving To Seattle

The NBA announced Monday that the relocation committee met Monday and voted to recommend to the Board of Governors not to approve relocation of the Sacramento Kings to Seattle.It doesn't mean they can't move, but the board of directors is expected to vote the same way, and that would kill any chance of them moving.

I think this whole thing is bogus. Seattle shouldn't have lost their team in the first place, and Seattle is a way better market than Sacramento. It is really shocking that the Kings will be staying where they are, because a couple months ago it seemed like this was a done deal. Now, Vivek Ranadive and 24-hour Fitness co-founder Mark Mastrov will buy the team and keep it in Sacramento. Maybe they got the Board of Governors free gym memberships or something.

Jason Collins Is Gay

NBA center Jason Collins on Monday announced that he's gay in a story for Sports Illustrated, becoming the first active player in a major American team sport to announce that he is gay.

Good for him, and it's about time there was an openly gay player in a pro sport. Kobe came out and supported him, and I am sure a bunch more will. He currently isn't on the team, but I don't think him coming out will hurt him, actually it's made him a ton more famous. He went from just a couple of thousand Twitter followers, and now has over 13,000, and I'm sure there will be a lot more as this story becomes more known. 

Cavs Rehire Mike Brown

"Mike Brown is coming back to Cleveland as he and the Cavaliers are close to finalizing a five-year, $20 million contract (ESPN)."

It's really not going to matter who the coach is until they improve the talent on this roster. What everyone is asking now is whether or not this will effect whether or not Lebron Comes back to Cleveland. Sources seem to think he won't care, and I have to agree with that. Lebron is going to care way more about who else is on the roster than who the coach is. If he doesn't like the coach, you really think the team is going to stick by the coach anyways?

The Cavs have a year to make their pitch for LeBron, it'll be interesting to see how they decide to build. The latest rumor is the Cavs are doing everything they can to try to land LaMarcus Aldridge.

87 Knicks, 71 Celtics

I never thought that I would see this kind of lackluster performance from a Doc Rivers coached team, but this team is playing flat out awful. They play well in the first half, get tired in the second and can't score any god damn points. KG has been a pretty big disappointment on the offensive end, Pierce has been the most consistent but still needs to do more and Jeff Green was horrible last night. You know this team desperately needs? Rajon Rondo. It's funny, all the maniacs out there that said the team is better off without Rondo have seem to have disappeared.

In the previous game he would have made sure the offense didn't stay stagnant and last game the same thing. The Knicks figure out that we don't have a god damn point guard and so our offense is pretty one pass and shoot at times and it sucks. Plus Rondo is a big time playoff performer so missing his monster games kills the Celtics. I hope we can appreciate his skills a little bit more Boston fans.

As for last nights game again, the defense is doing fine. I have zero issue what they are doing on defense, but their offense is just miserable. Courtney Lee got buried last night and should stay that way. Jason Terry is just terribly inconsistent. I wasn't a giant fan of the officiating in the first half, but whatever, can't blame the officials for this one.

These 2 games have been mildly annoying to say the least.

Celtics @ Knicks Game 2 Preview

Everyone is talking about how the Celtics need to get KG going. It's true, but it's not the whole story. Listen, KG isn't what he was, he can give you some good games, but he is not what he is going to get you through these playoffs anymore. You know who is? It's Jeff Green.

Jeff Green had 20 points at half time last game, then he got tired and only scored 6 the rest of the way. Unacceptable, and it cost them the game. He needs to play aggressive all the time. They guy has the talent, he has wanted to be a key member of this team, now he is getting the chance and to be honest he kind of failed. He needs to step up. Imagine he he dropped another 15-20 points in the 2nd half? I believe he can do it, he has that kind of talent. If the Celtics suddenly have a guy that can drop 30 every game they become a scary team.

Garnett played in only five of the final 17 games of the regular season, my hope is that Game 1 was just him shaking off some rust. I do believe he will have a better night tonight.

The Knicks haven't held a 2-0 lead since 2000, and you can already hear some fear in their voices...

"Tomorrow we're approaching this game as a must-win," said Anthony, who scored 36 points in Game 1. "Here on our home court, we want to win this basketball game. We don't want to go back to Boston 1-1."

Sorry Melo, but the Celtics don't die easy, and I think they shake the rust off and take it to the Knicks tonight. Like I said from the beginning Celtics in 6.

Celtics win 92-88
Tommy Award: Green
Game starts at 8pm

I Can't Stand Chris Paul So Much It's Dumb

Chris Paul is a dickhead. I don't care if he hit a game winner last night, his team is going to get massacred once they play against a legitimate team.

There are 2 players in the NBA that somehow get a pass for being dirty as fuck, yet nobody calls them out for it and that's Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul. I could go on for days about Wade, but I'm going to try and focus on Paul.

Paul is a fucking dickhead, it all starts with him at Wake Forest when he played NC State where he punches one of my all time favorite players Julius Hodge in the dick and then claims he doesn't remember. To a bunch of things he does on the court now that nobody calls him out. I just don't understand how he can get away with all of this nonsense without being called a "thug", the term everyone loves throwing around towards NBA players.

Is it that he's on a family feud, in commercials, etc. Does that give you a bye? Is that all you need?

Either way, in my NBA most hated players it goes:

1. CP3
2. Wade
3. Lebron
4. Carmelo
5a. Ray Allen
5b. Kobe Bryant

Boom. You'll be shocked the Lebron fell down to 3, it's not that I hate him any less, but him winning a title and doing it in the dominant fashion does mean something and he's not dirty. Carmelo is in there obviously because he's the 2nd most selfish player that ever touched a basketball in the history of the game (Kobe being first), Ray Allen's in there for obvious reasons. And Kobe is all about being selfish, selfishness even was the reason he's injured in the first place, if he realized that he doesn't need to play in ever minute or every game and rested his body and relied on his teammates more he wouldn't be in the position he's in and neither would the Lakers. but since Kobe is all about Kobe they are a 7th seed while he is sitting home undermining his coach on twitter.

Byron Scott Fired From Cavs

The Cleveland Cavaliers have fired coach Byron Scott, who they should never have hired in the first place. Scott is the worst, he is just a shitty coach, and Cavs lost 16 of their final 18 games to finish at 24-58. Sure they didn't have the greatest roster, but I never thought Scott was all that great of a coach.

Things will get interesting for the Cavs. They have Irving, and there is going to be nonstop rumors that LeBron might come back. You have to wonder if they will try to get a coach/players that would entice LeBron to make his way back.

Doug Collins Quits As 76ers Coach

Doug Collins has resigned after three seasons as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers and will remain with the franchise as an adviser. DP and I were talking and this guy got a real bad deal with the 76ers. They promised they wouldn't trade Andre Iguodala, then they got him a big man who never played, and filled the team with a bunch of guys who are streaky shooters. I mean what was he supposed to do with that?

I think he is a pretty good coach, and I think it's dumb he is sticking around, because he is better than a lot of coaches that currently have jobs.

114 Raptors, 90 Celtics

When Fab Melo gets 17 minutes you know the Celtics didn't give a shit about this game.

Doc coached this game perfectly, Pierce played 14 minutes, KG and Terry didn't play and no player that will have a huge impact against the Knicks on Saturday.

The good that comes out of this is I guess potenial X factor players Jordan Crawford, Terrence Williams, Courtney Lee all got a ton of burn.

Either way the best series in the playoffs begin Saturday.

The Celtics finish 41 - 40 on the season.

College To The Pro's Update

Nerlens Noel may not have lived up to the hype when he was healthy and the Wildcats certainly didn't live up to the hype, bu one thing is for sure, even with a torn ACL Noel is still the best prospect in college basketball. The 6-foot-10 freshman, led the nation with 4.4 blocks per game and averaged 10.5 points and 9.5 rebounds.

Noel also had 50 steals for Kentucky earning Southeastern Conference defensive player of the year honors, along with first team all-conference and freshman team selections.

Noel will obviously take some time to develop into the beast he can be, but he will definitely be a defensive presence in the association.

Otto Porter of Georgetown is also going pro. The 6'8 Porter averaged 16.2 points and 7.5 rebounds, both highs for Georgetown. I would love for the Celtics to get someone like him. He was born to be a great small forward in the NBA. He's long, athletic, can score at will and play great defense.

Smart move.

Celtics/ NBA, Bruins/ NHL do the Right Thing

Yesterday the Celtics cancelled tonights game with the Pacers and aren't going to make it up because it has no impact on the season and the Bruins postponed their game at the Garden last night.

A makeup date for Bruins-Senators was not announced; no other events from top professional leagues around the country were immediately called off.

This is a good proactive move by them incase this madness isn't over yet. To be honest, Bob and I are going to the Sox game on Friday and it is a little nerve wracking that we will be in a giant crowd on the same week as a terrorist attack. In my heart of hearts I honestly do believe this is over, but there is still always that thought in your mind, "what if".

But again, this was a great move by the NBA and NHL.

101 Nets, 93 Celtics

Deron Williams had a pretty good game huh? 29 and 12 from the dickhead PG. It's a shame seeing him do well because when Rondo plays he abuses him. Deron Williams looked the part last night though, I think a lot of the time the NBA media inflates how good he is, but he was just on a roll last night.

As for the Celtics, Pierce was the only one that decided to show up last night with 23 points, everybody else is in coast mode until the playoffs and that's fine with me, but I would like to see a couple of dominating tune up performances before the playoffs. If we are going to make a run we are going to need big playoffs from Crawford, Lee, and Jet.

It always pisses me off to lose to the Nets, but whatever, playoffs are coming.

Nets @ Celtics Preview

This game really doesn't matter. There are 5 games left in the regular season, and the Celtics basically know they are going to be either the Knicks or the Pacers (most likely the Knicks). So my main focus (and I would think the focus of Doc) is to get these guys ready for the playoffs. That means shaking off the rust for guys who have been hurt, while also keeping them rested.

I could really care less if they win this game. What do I want to see? I want to see Green continue to be aggressive. I would like to see Bradley start hitting shots, and I would like to see Pierce and KG play limited minutes but look good.

The Nets are basically in the same boat, but even more so. They are locked in that 4 seed and are going to be playing the Bulls in the first road. There will be a lot of stars on the court tonight, but I don't think either side is really going to be pushing it too hard.

Celtics win 90-85
Tommy Award: Green
Game starts at 8pm

A Woman In The NBA?

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was serious when he told the media on Tuesday that drafting Baylor women's superstar Brittney Griner in the second round or offering her a tryout is a possibility.

"If she is the best on the board, I will take her," Cuban told ESPNDallas.com. "I've thought about it. I've thought about it already. Would I do it? Right now, I'd lean toward yes, just to see if she can do it. You never know unless you give somebody a chance, and it's not like the likelihood of any late-50s draft pick has a good chance of making it."

If Cuban does this it is a publicity stunt and nothing more. Griner might be the greatest woman player of all time, but she will not be able to compete with men. They are too big, and too strong. I don't know why everyone is always in such a rush to mix sexes in sports. They tried it in hockey with a goalie, and it didn't work at all (though if there was a position in hockey that would be it), they tried a woman kicker in football (once again if there was a position that's it), and we even have woman knuckleballers. When it comes to a contact sport (yes make any NBA joke you want) it's just going going to happen. Imagine her having to lineup next to even a mediocre player like Brandon Bass. She would get her ass kicked.

98 Celtics, 93 Pistons

Even though the Celtics blew a 17 point lead, and even the KG situation seems like 09 all over again I need to stop and appreciate Jeff Green for a second. Jeff Green is worth every penny of the contract he got when we signed him to a 4 year, 26 million dollar deal. I guess I'm done questioning Danny Ainge. Jeff Green still may have inconsistencies about him, however, he has become a reliable scorer, defender and most importantly clutch. Jeff has come through in a lot of spots where Paul Pierce's number would be called and has come through and last night was yet another example. With the Celtics doing their best attempt to blow a 17 point lead, Jeff hit a dagger 3 with 45 seconds left to put the game out of reach for the Pistons.

Jeff had 34 points, 6 rebounds and 4 blocks. I trust Green maybe 2nd on the team offensively and probably defensively behind Pierce and KG respectively.

Brandon Bass and Paul Pierce chipped in with 17 points each and Avery Bradley had 11. You know what is a really great topic of discussion? Who will be the more valuable Bradley to a Boston organization, Avery or Jackie? you can never take anything away from Avery's defense, but I am a little wary of his offensive ability. I don't know enough about Jackie yet, but with the hype surrounding him and the small sample we have seen of him up with the Sox, he can be a really good player.

One thing is for sure for the Celtics though, we need a healthy KG and Pierce if we want a shot against the Knicks or Heat.

110 Timberwolves, 100 Celtics

What the fuck was this Celtics?

God damn Nikola Pekovic drops 29 on you and there is nothing you can do?

This is your typical overlook game on a back to back nights. I don't care if we were missing Pierce, KG, Rondo, and Sullinger; this is a game we still should win in our sleep.

Everything about this game made me puke.