Notes: Celtics' Garnett leads in All-Star balloting

C’s Dethrone Kings

CelticsBlog found this 12/27/2007 on www.sportsofboston.com

The Celtics easily handled the washed-up Kings, combining stifiling defense with uncanny 3-point accuracy in an 89-69 drubbing ( NBA.com Box Score ). Ray Allen led 5 Celtics in double figures with 17 points, while Kevin Garnett added 14 points and 10 ...

The Queens Get Chippy

Sactown Royalty: Front Page Posts found this 12/27/2007 on www.celticsblog.com

The Sacramento Queens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakers-Kings_rivalry) responded to the challenge of playing the Celtics by playing some chippy (or sometimes cheap) basketball. The Globe reports: ...

Garnett leads James as overall All-Star vote-getter; Kobe leads West

kcudah posted 12/27/2007 from sports.espn.go.com

Garnett was the leading vote-getter for the 2008 NBA All-Star Game with 1,186,690 votes when the second set of returns were released Thursday. Celtics forward Paul Pierce and guard Ray Allen were fourth at their positions in the Eastern Conference. Boston acquired Garnett, a 10-time All-Star, from the Minnesota Timberwolves and Allen, a seven-time All-Star, from the Seattle SuperSonics in ...

The Top Five for 12/27

MVNAnthonyHall posted 12/27/2007 from mvn.com

KG is the current leading vote-getter for the 2008 NBA All-Star Game, Champ Bailey rips Philip Rivers, Jim Boylan is named interim head coach of the Bulls, and other top stories from the sports world.

Celtics Fans Apparently Afraid of Physical Basketball

Deadspin found this 12/28/2007 on www.sactownroyalty.com

As section214 noted in his recap from the arena , the game was a bit chippy. There was more jawing than action, I'd say, though Tony Allen gave Dahntay Jones a huge forearm shiver and Mikki Moore absolutely destroyed Rajon Rondo on a "block attempt." ...