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| Celtics try to stay unbeaten in home tilt with Hornets |
NBA Basketball |
11/01/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Boston Celtics will try to keep their red-hot start to the season intact tonight, when they close out a three-game homestand versus the New Orleans Hornets from TD Garden. Boston is 3-0 for the first time since opening the 2007-08 NBA championship season with eight consecutive victories, and recently handed the Chicago Bulls a 118-90 loss on Friday. Eddie House and Paul Pierce each scored 22 points, and Ray Allen ended with 20 for Boston, which beat Chicago in seven games in an epic fi |
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| Celtics decline to suspend F Davis |
NBA Basketball |
10/30/2009 |
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| Boston, MA (MySportsbook) - The Boston Celtics have decided not to suspend forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis despite him fracturing his right thumb during an altercation with a childhood friend the day before the season opener. Speaking at a news conference prior to Friday's game against the Chicago Bulls, Celtics executive vice president Danny Ainge said instead of suspending Davis, he wanted the forward around since he's a part of the team. "We have that option to either have him around or suspend him and no |
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| Celtics decide not to suspend Davis |
NBA Basketball |
10/30/2009 |
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BOSTON (AP) -The Boston Celtics have decided not to suspend forward Glen ``Big Baby'' Davis after an early morning fight with a childhood friend the day before the season opener left him sidelined for at least five weeks with a broken right thumb. Executive vice president Danny Ainge made the announcement with Davis seated next to him in a press conference Friday before the Celtics' game against the Chicago Bulls, saying the club wanted to keep him around to work out with the team. In his first meeting |
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| Upgraded roster has raised Hoosiers expectations |
College Basketball |
10/28/2009 |
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| proval from the NCAA clearinghouse, should help inside, too. But all four are freshmen and only one of the returning starters, Dumes, has played more than one season of college ball. Crean also has more help at guard. Jeremiah Rivers, the son of Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers, moves into the point guard spot after sitting out last season because of NCAA transfer rules. The 6-foot-5 junior was a backup on Georgetown's 2007 Final Four team. The emergence of Rivers has pushed Jones from the point to his m |
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| Celtics try to build on first win vs. Bobcats |
NBA Basketball |
10/28/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Boston Celtics hope to build on an impressive season opener when they kick off the home portion of their 2009-10 schedule by welcoming the Charlotte Bobcats to TD Garden. Paul Pierce scored 23 points and pulled down 11 rebounds, pacing Boston to a 95-89 win over the Cavaliers and spoiling the regular season debut for the Cleveland tandem of LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal. "They took us out of a lot of our sets that we've been working on in practice," said James. "They made us get in |
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| Celtics F Davis out six weeks, issues apology |
NBA Basketball |
10/27/2009 |
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| Boston, MA (MySportsbook) - Boston Celtics forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis will miss the next six weeks after needing surgery to reduce and fix a fractured right thumb, allegedly incurred over the weekend in an altercation. The Celtics offered that Davis had surgery Tuesday at New England Baptitst Hospital and with it an apology from Davis. The release made no mention of how the injury occurred, but the Boston Herald is reporting Davis was invloved in a fight with a childhood friend early Sunday morning that |
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| Lakers begin title defense vs. local Clippers |
NBA Basketball |
10/27/2009 |
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| rs were chosen by a majority of the league's 30 general managers in their annual survey to repeat as NBA champs, largely due to head coach Phil Jackson and Bryant. The Lakers earned 60.7 percent in the "Who will win the 2010 title" voting, while the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers tied for the next highest amount at 17.9 percent. "We certainly have the talent to win another one," Bryant said. "If we don't, it's because of our lack of focus or an injury here or there." As for tonight's game Gasol is lis |
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| Cavs, Celtics kick off NBA season at the "Q" |
NBA Basketball |
10/27/2009 |
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| g MVP LeBron James got a new toy in the offseason and hopes the addition of future Hall of Fame center Shaquille O'Neal can boost the Cleveland Cavaliers to new heights. The two superstars will officially kick off the season Tuesday night versus the Boston Celtics at Quicken Loans Arena. The Cavaliers won the Central Division title last year and lost in six games to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals. Cleveland has made four straight trips to the postseason and snatched up O'Neal over the summ |
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| James, O'Neal make dynamic, dominant duo |
NBA Basketball |
10/23/2009 |
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| need to sign the papers with before you play a game. I've always been comfortable being around him. It's not hard getting along with Shaq. His personality is great.'' Cleveland will begin its climb toward the top on Tuesday when the Cavs host the Boston Celtics in a 2009-10 season opener that may preview this season's Eastern Conference finals. The Cavs and Celtics, who exchanged pushes and shoves in an exhibition earlier this week, will battle defending champ Orlando for Eastern supremacy in a conference |
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| Lifelong winner Bird battles Pacers' losing ways |
NBA Basketball |
10/23/2009 |
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -Larry Bird is losing. In these parts, that's hard to believe. This is Larry Legend, the guy who took Indiana State to the NCAA finals, who won three titles and three MVP awards with the Boston Celtics as a player, took the Indiana Pacers to the finals as a coach and even helped the WNBA's Indiana Fever reach the finals as team president this past season. He hasn't been so successful as the Pacers' president. The team has missed the playoffs for the past three seasons, and fans in B |
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