It is going to be a busy week of player movement around the NBA, no doubt a precursor to teams tightening up their rosters with the NBA trade deadlines steadily approaching. And it all starts today. Monday is the first day teams can begin offering 10-day contracts -- with teams allowed to extend up to two per player before that respective player must either be released or have...

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5. Februay 19, 2009- While playing Utah, Kevin Garnett has a career-altering injury. Let's be real here folks, he hasn't been the same since then. Less not forget that Celtics squad was 27-2 after 29 games, the best start to an NBA season in the history. We all know how it played out: KG's status was a big mystery. He tried playing a couple games here and there...

The problem for the Boston Celtics the last few seasons has been the simple fact that Danny Ainge has not given the team a quality bench. Misfits like Glen Davis, Stephan Marbury, Mikki Moore, Patrick O’Bryant, and Nate Robinson provided both little production and cost the starters valuable rest. The Celtics needed to find an answer to their bench woes this off season. Celtics...

The Memphis Grizzlies waived center Mikki Moore, Grizzlies General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations Chris Wallace announced today. Moore (6-11, 225) holds career averages of 5.8 points and 3.9 rebounds in 557 games (181 starts) over a 12-year NBA career (1998-2010) with the Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, Atlanta Hawks, New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, [...]

Memphis, December 15, 2011 – The Memphis Grizzlies waived center Mikki Moore, Grizzlies General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations Chris Wallace announced today. Moore (6-11, 225) holds career averages of 5.8 points and 3.9 rebounds in 557 games (181 starts) over a 12-year NBA career (1998-2010) with the Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, Atlanta Hawks, New Jersey...

Veterans Davis, Moore, Reiner, Sharpe, Skinner add size, experience to Grizzlies. MEMPHIS, December 10, 2011 – The Memphis Grizzlies signed free agents Josh Davis, Mikki Moore, Jared Reiner, Walter Sharpe and Brian Skinner, collectively adding 31 seasons of NBA experience to the roster, Grizzlies General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations Chris Wallace announced today.

Mikki Moore wasn’t a memorable NBA player. But he had one of the coolest hobbies you’ll ever see: collecting snakes and other reptiles. He’s owned albino Burmese pythons, Colombian red tail boa constrictors and even corn snakes (but he won’t do poisonous). Being that I grew up much the same way Moore did – catching [...]

Dear Celtics’ fans, It’s been about a year since I’ve hit the pen to the paper, quite the turbulent year to say the least. Some of you reading this know all that I’ve been through in the last year, some of you don’t, but that’s not the point here. I think what I found most amazing through all of the ups and downs of the last year was really taking...

(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)     “Oh yeah, I’ll definitely listen to him.”  “If he tells me something, I’ll definitely do my best to execute what he’s saying, because I definitely don’t want him shutting me down, especially because I definitely want to learn as much as I can from him.” It’s going to be huge for me,” said...

Very realistic, Taj Gibson. The slick, smooth skull is a nice touch, and your ability to unhinge your jaw to get more of your prey (whether lizards, other snakes, small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, snails or insects) into your mouth for full digestion really brings it home. Luol Deng is very impressed. See how much more emotional and demonstrative he is than usual? That's his...

If you're an NBA junkie, this is such a fantastic read. Not what you're about to read from me, but the initial post and discovery we'll get to down this particular page. Back in 2007-08, rookie Nets point guard Marcus Williams actually did quite well in his initial season in East Rutherford. He didn't defend or shoot well, but he led a solid bench attack for New Jersey...

Sure, it was a preseason game: a late October evening in the packed Honda Center. But fans from all over Southern California gathered in Anaheim to celebrate the beginning of their Lakers’ championship defense. But Mikki Moore never saw it coming. It was one of the most thunderous dunks the NBA had seen in recent years. Weeks before the beginning of the 2009-2010 NBA season, the...

It was announced that Jermaine O’Neal has made his decision. The decision is JO will play again in 2011. JO will avoid surgery and rehab for four weeks. This means the Celtics once again will be missing JO’s services for a while, but at least we know he is trying to play.                 JO could have packed it in and collected his pay check. Instead the man is...

Jermaine O’Neal has been advised that season ending knee surgery is the best course of action for dealing with his injured knee. According to the Boston Globe, O’Neal is in the process of seeking a 2nd and possibly 3rd opinion. There is a possibility that O’Neal could choose to rest his injured knee in hopes of being able to get it going for a late season run, but the Celtics...

I don’t normally bash a player from another team. I like to limit my bashing to the normal hometown targets – Nate Robinson, Tony Allen, Mikki Moore and Paul Pierce’s facial hair. But today is different, because Sean Marks wasn’t just bad yesterday. He might have played the worst five-minute stretch I’ve ever witnessed.I re-watched Marks’s 4:49 of first-half playing...

Shaquille O’Neal is done. He is too old. He is too out of shape. He is a shell of his old self. There is no way he can help the Boston Celtics. This was the national media slapping Shaq after he signed with Boston. Boy do they look stupid thus far.             The reasons Shaq is working out so well in Boston are simple. The first is Shaq is motivated. He heard all the...

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here... highlighting the big storyline. Because there's nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump. The Celtics dominated the first few minutes of the second half, built an 11-point lead, and waited for the LeBron James-less Cavaliers to fold. But in the final 15 minutes of the game, the Celtics’ arrogance...

The city of Cleveland owes us one giant favor. The Celtics trumped their opening night victory over LeBron's new team, by losing to his old team. The Celtics frustrated me all night long. Leading by 5 heading into the 4th quarter, I repeatedly said to myself - this is where we put them away. Nope. Never happened. The Cavs outscored Boston 27-14 in the final 12 minutes.  ...

I would suggest that Semih Erden is already better than any backup center during the first three years of the New Big Three era. Let’s call Glen Davis an under-heighted power forward. Leaving Big Baby and Garnett as forwards (as well as Scal and Powe), the con(pre)tenders at backup center for the past three years were: 07-08 PJ Brown, Scot Pollard 08-09 Mikki Moore, Patrick O’Bryant...

I love Perk. Anyone who knows me even in passing knows that. I am one of the few Celtics fans who was on Perk's bandwagon way back in his rookie season. I listened to what he said and realized that he was a humble and honest kid who was anxious to do whatever it took to succeed in the league. I saw the work he was putting in to transform his body from a pudgy high schooler...

Chris Forsberg was doing his usual thing a C's practice today... tweeting out this photo of KG working with Semih Erden and Luke Harangody on pick and roll defense.  It's a great photo that shows KG in full coach mode.  Then he added video of it in his recap and got this quote from Doc.  "He helps the ones he likes," said Rivers. "That's true. Kevin...

Do yourself a favor: go back to the 16-second mark and watch the ensuing dunk. I know that defense makes Mikki Moore look like Bill Russell, but YOU try completing that dunk. Even with nobody on you. I didn’t think so.But seriously, where in the world was the defense? I’m pretty sure every player on the court made a pact to allow wide open dunks. Almost like the pact Don Nelson...

by Kevin Owens / @Waiting4Godunk I thought this week I would discuss the answer to a question I have been asked quite a few times. The dialogue usually goes something like this: Inquisitor: Did you enjoy playing in the D-League? Myself: Yes! (Emphatic) Inquisitor: Really? (Also emphatic) I know a ton of guys who hated it. I’m never surprised by the abundance of former D-Leaguers...

Here are the answers to CT 4: Kendrick Perkins Clifton Ozen HS Ricky Davis Iowa John Havlicek Ohio State Sam Jones North Carolina Central Wally Szczerbiak Miami (OH) Part 2: Name that player (5 points each) 1. I am Texas Tech's all-time blocks leader with 162, have played for six-NBA teams (five in the Eastern Conference), and saved a teammate's life in 2000 off...