Archive for April, 2011

Now that the Miami Heat have taken care of business, the NBA has released the schedule for the round two Celtics Heat matchup: Game 1 – Sunday May 1 Boston at Miami 3:30 p.m.-ABC Game 2 – Tuesday May 3 Boston at Miami TBD-TNT Game 3 – Saturday May 7 Miami at Boston 8 p.m.-ABC Game 4 – Monday May 9 Miami at Boston TBD-TNT Game 5 * Wednesday May 11 Boston at Miami TBD-TNT Game 6 * Friday May 13 Miami at Boston TBD-ESPN Game 7 * Monday May 16 Boston at Miami 8 p.m-TNT * If Necessary

Things are slow in the land of the Green Team as we wait patiently to see who the next opponent will be. Does New York Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni still think Rajon Rondo would not play well in Minnesota? Paul Pierce has averaged 39 minutes per game in the postseason, up from his regular season average of 34. Ray Allen is shooting 3′s at a rate of .778 in the postseason. Jermaine O’Neal averaged 2.5 blocks per game in round one. Glen Davis chipped in with 14 points and 5 rebounds in 27 minutes on Sunday. Chris Johnson leads [...]

This just got real. The Celtics plan on selling a limited amount of round two playoff tickets on Thursday. This is based on the Celtics being the lower seed of course. Things could still change if the Philadelphia 76ers channel their inner 2004 Boston Red Sox and mount an unbelievable comeback over the Miami Heat. Here is the official release from the Boston Celtics: BOSTON — The Boston Celtics announced today that a limited number of playoff tickets for Round 2, Home Games 1, 2 and 3 at the TD Garden will go on sale Thursday, April 28 at 2 [...]

The unexpected week off in between playoff games has left me no choice, but to scour the internet for all things Boston Celtics. I came across this bit of awesomeness combining my love of comic books and the game of basketball. New Era, in affiliation with Marvel comics, is set to release brand new caps to commemorate six NBA playoff teams. The Celtics hat has the famous four-leaf clover with the Incredible Hulk on the brim of the cap. These caps are available for purchase at New Era flagship stores, national and regional sporting goods retailers, specialty stores, additional NBA [...]

In a move that nobody saw coming, the Boston Celtics took care of business sending the New York Knicks to the golf course in time for their Monday morning tee times. Doc Rivers summed up the series best: “Give [the Knicks] credit. No. 1 they had one of their best players who’s not 100 percent. Obviously we didn’t feel bad about that. But we didn’t play well in the first two games. We were fortunate to win both of them. But we did play well in Game 3 and played well in Game 4…what you saw tonight was a microcosm [...]

Rajon Rondo was all over the floor on Sunday striking fear into the hearts of the New York Knicks each time he sprinted up the court. Toney Douglass was so afraid of getting beat that he actually made it easier for Rondo to score by simply playing on his heels allowing Rondo to run right by him. Rajon Rondo’s 11 trips to the line on Sunday were his most of the series. Rondo’s struggles at the line continued calling into question why teams fail to out right foul him as much as humanly possible? The theory seems like one of  [...]

After the thrashing of the New York Knicks in game three. We wonder if the Celtics have regained their form.

New York Knicks star players Amar’e Stoudemire and Chauncey Billups will be game time decisions when the Celtics and Knicks meet again tonight in game three of their opening round match up at Madison Square Garden. Stoudemire pulled a back muscle warming up for game two and essentially missed the entire game. Billups injured his knee in the closing seconds on game one and has been out since. Of the two, Stoudemire is more likely to play as Billups may need a few more days to heal. The Knicks have been surprisingly resilient considering they have been without two of [...]

Hardwood Houdini took some time out of its busy day to swap emails with the fine folks over at Buckets Over Broadway regarding the hard fought series between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. Following the same trend as an earlier post that focused on why the Celtics would win and lose, we get to see how Knicks fans view their team’s chances against the Celtics in this epic round one match up: Reasons Why The Knicks Will Lose: Health—After continuously fighting through two games and losing by a combined 5 points while holding the lead with under a [...]

Add another chapter to the Will he/Won’t he saga that is the 2011 season for Shaquille O’Neal and the Boston Celtics. Just as fast a reports surfaced of Shaq’s injury worsening reports began to come out today that Shaq may suit up in game 4 on Sunday in New York. Said head coach Doc Rivers “If you see him on the trip, that means he’s really close.” Now, we went through this a million times already this season with Shaq being really close and then getting pulled back and then coming back and then out for a month etc. At [...]