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.

99 Celtics, 81 Kings

This was an awesome win for the Celtics. They came out and were aggressive and for the most part stayed aggressive the whole game. The offense was spread out among the team 6 people finished with double digits scoring. Paul Pierce finished the game with 16 points and 10 rebounds, KG finished with 13 points and a team high 15 points, both Bass and Terry seemed to be a lot more active then we are used to seeing this year.

Brandon Bass may be huge coming up figuring Jared Sullinger left in the first with back spasms, I already have heard we are going to have to miss games from time to time to deal with this. I certainly hope this is a one time deal and not an ongoing thing, this was the exact reason he fell in the drafts to the Celtics to 21.

The Celtics biggest strengths is going to be pushing the ball on offense. They still have a somewhat young team, minus pierce, KG and Terry, so when the times Bass, Sully, Lee, Green and certainly Barbosa are in the best strategy would be to push, push, push. I know the Kings may not be the best team, but it still is pretty awesome to see them pick it up without Rondo.

I kind of wish Doc rested KG an Pierce when we were up big in the 3rd or 4th.

Kings @ Celtics Preview

This is the 2nd game of the Rondo-less Celtics era. Here is hoping it is like the 1st game when the Celtics were able to beat the Heat. Obviously, this is a much easier game and one they should win with or without Rondo.

Yet, last time these two teams play the Kings actually beat them and it wasn't very close (118-96). The Kings looked young and fast, while the Celtics looked old and slow. One would think without Rondo things could get worse, but I don't expect that tonight.

I think the Celtics are going to lock down their back court with Bradley and Lee. Lee has a whole 2nd chance to this season now that Rondo is gone. He is going to get big minutes, and will have the ball in his hands a lot more. So, I am really interested to watch if he can be the player we thought we were getting to begin the year.

Everyone will have their eyes on Paul Pierce, as most people think he will now be running a lot of the sets on offense. While I don't completely disagree I think you are going to see a lot of guys doing this and not just mainly Paul.

One that scares me tonight is Cousins. He hasn't been playing well (averaging 9.7 points, 4.7 boards and 4.0 turnovers in his last three games), but the Celtics have had trouble with powerful big men in the past.

Still, I think the Celtics come out with the win at home tonight.

Celtics win 96-91
Tommy Award: Lee
Game starts at 7:30pm