Someone opened the floodgates on the KG news. Jess Camerato caught up with some of the Celtics after their charity golf tournament... and they're pretty encouraged by what they see out of KG.“He’s happy, he’s talking more, which I didn’t think was possible,”
Rivers said following the USI Shamrock Classic at the Nashawtuc Country
Club in Concord. “He’s got his quickness back and he just looks normal
again.”And KG might have discovered that he's got a career in coaching“His presence has been felt. He has been talking more, but you don’t
know when he starts playing, maybe he’ll talk less,” Brian Scalabrine
said with a laugh. “But he has been leading us in a very instructional
kind of way. Before he was like that, but now, like he pulled me aside
the other day. He was like, ‘You know, you have to play the game within
the game. If you’re trying to get something done later, you want to set
...
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