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The Celtics will sign second-round pick (40th overall) Justin Reed today, according to his agent, Mark Bartelstein. The sides agreed to a two-year deal worth approximately $1 million. The first year is guaranteed and the team holds the option on the second. Director of basketball operations Danny Ainge announced last week that Boston planned to sign the 6-foot-8-inch forward from ...
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BOSTON (Sports Network) - The Boston Celtics shipped  disgruntled forward Walter McCarty to the Phoenix Suns Tuesday  in an exchange for a 2005 conditional second-round draft  choice.
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The Celtics signed Kendrick Perkins to a four-year extension yesterday worth approximately $16 million with incentives. Perkins is entering the fourth year of his rookie contract worth $1.7 million, and the club needed to make a determination about his future before Oct. 31; otherwise he would have become a restricted free agent at the end of the upcoming season.
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The Boston Celtics shipped disgruntled forward Walter McCarty to the Phoenix Suns Tuesday in an exchange for a 2005 conditional second-round draft choice.
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WALTHAM -- When word of the Celtics' draft day deal with the Portland Trail Blazers leaked out, Theo Ratliff was a 6-foot-10-inch footnote. The 11-year veteran, former All-Star, and past perennial contender for Defensive Player of the Year brought impressive credentials to Boston, but the team was building for the future by acquiring point guard Sebastian Telfair in the trade. ...
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Delonte West isn't on the level of the late Dennis Johnson. But teammate Al Jefferson said the Celtics' present point guard has more in common with him than just hair color (red) -- specifically, a penchant for the big shot.
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While the Celtics' defensive scheme will remain largely the same in a rematch against the Chicago Bulls tonight at the United Center, they will have one more offensive weapon with the return of Delonte West . The team medical staff said West could compete tonight almost a week after suffering a mild concussion from a Dikembe Mutombo elbow ...
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It has been quite a roller coaster ride these last two months for Danny Ainge. The beleaguered Boston Celtics director of basketball operations oversaw one of the worst seasons in the Celtics' storied history and saw his only chance at redemption -- landing the top overall pick in the NBA draft -- lost with a fateful bounce of a Ping-Pong ball. His frantic attempts to acquire the type of veteran talent that would appease franchise player Paul Pierce while not gutting the franchise of its youth fell short. Kevin Garnett wouldn't play for them. Shawn Marion would, but only if Boston agreed to pay him like Garnett. It seemed hopeless.
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The NBA yesterday named Gerald Green one of the four competitors in the All-Star dunk contest, a decision Danny Ainge would call a no-brainer. Barring any players named as replacements for injured participants, Green will be the only Celtics representative at the Feb. 16-18 festivities.
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Pedro MartÃ­nez could soon receive a contract offer from the Mets that is competitive with the one he has already received from Boston.
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With the NBA trading deadline less than 48 hours away, these are strange, gossip-filled days. Out here on the West Coast, talk of the Nets sending Jason Kidd to the Lakers dominates. Last night, before the Celtics played the Sacramento Kings at ARCO Arena, there were whispers about whether Mike Bibby would remain in town. But despite rumors ...
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Tony Allen led Boston's backups on a 14-point run early in the second quarter and the Celtics rolled to a 119-101 win Monday night over Orlando after the Magic traded starting guard Cuttino Mobley.
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With Allen Iverson asking for a trade out of Philadelphia, the Celtics generated buzz around Boston yesterday for the first time in awhile.
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Gary Payton's offseason was marked by a cross-country trade, a missed deadline for taking a physical and an arrest for investigation of driving under the influence. Now the people who run his new team, the Boston Celtics, are eager to see the point guard on a basketball court.
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Detroit Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace has been named to replace the Boston Celtics' Kevin Garnett in the February 17 NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans, the NBA said on Sunday.
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The Celtics yesterday signed undrafted free agent Brandon Wallace to a partially-guaranteed two-year contract.
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Soon-to-be free agent point guard Damon Stoudamire said yesterday that it would be "dumb" not to seriously consider the Celtics if they wanted him.