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The KG Effect: Better Sleep
Published 2/29/2008 by redsarmy at RedsArmy.com: The Voice Of Celtics Fans
The New York Times wanted to know what the real effect of Kevin Garnett was on these Boston Celtics.  To do that… they asked the coach, and the role players that were part of last year’s disaster. The running theme in this piece… better sleep Rajon Rondo:  “Last year I was happy, too,” he says. “It was my ...

Daily Links 3/1
Published 3/1/2008 at CelticsBlog
Herald Celts scratch and claw through difficult victory Never easy to defend this team s offense Adding Cassell can only help Garnett moving in the right direction No PJ just yet Globe Celtics hold off pesky Bobcats Cassell clear to here? Sam he is MetroWest Daily Celtics 108, Bobcats 100: Perkins, Rondo lead charge Celtics.com Post ups notebook - Live game blog LOY's Place Perk and Rondo star as Celtics beat Bobcats Comments from the other side - Bobcats Celtics 17 Other guys steal the show Hoopsworld Rondo dishes Bobcats a loss Lue could be valuable Cassell to sign ...

Fiddlin' and Diddlin' - Daily Links 3/1
Published 3/1/2008 by FLCeltsFan at LOY's PLACE a celtics green blog
Herald Celts scratch and claw through difficult victory Never easy to defend this team’s offense Adding Cassell can only help FL's Take: Adding Cassell plugs the very last weakness on this team. I love Rajon's sense of humor. In an interview at last night's game he said that Sam needs to ...

Celtics Links: 3/1/08
Published 3/1/2008 by Jim at Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts
You wake up one day, it is March and you haven't done the links in close to 2 weeks. So here is an abbreviated edition as I try to get back into the swing of things... Boston Herald Never easy to defend this team's offense. Adding Cassell could only help. Garnett moving in right direction. Green Bandwagon Note - Encouraging. No P.J. just yet. Boston Globe Celtics hold off pesky Bobcats. Sam he is. Loy's Place Perk and Rondo star as Celtics beat Bobcats. Comments from the other side - Bobcats. Celtics 17 Other guys steal the show. ...

Brian Scalabrine is Self-Aware Now
Published 3/2/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
Filed under: Celtics, BostonChuck Klosterman has a (predictably) full and intensively interesting New York Times profile of the leftover 2006-07 Celtics currently playing for the league's best team (by record). You should absolutely read the whole thing, but in the interim this slice from Brian Scalabrine is absolutely interesting. "Do I think about myself differently? Absolutely," he says. "I can't speak for everyone on this team, but that is absolutely the case for me. There's a different sense of self-worth. When you're losing 18 games in a row, you look at yourself and say, 'What am I doing? What else can I do? What ...

Chuck Klosterman Gives the Cocoa Puff Treatment to KG
Published 3/2/2008 by The Inevitable Muck-up at Some People's Kids
Chuck Klosterman is one of my favorite writers of all time. He took the Hunter S. Thompson route to fame focusing newspaper columns, magazine articles and publishing books that are nothing more than a combination of the previously mentioned articles and essays on everything pop culture. The dude covers everything, and I mean everything. Today he authored a fairly large article about Kevin Garnett and the Boston Celtics and what a difference a year makes. Do yourself a favor and click here. If you enjoyed that you should go out to your local bookseller and purchase "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs", "IV", "Killing Yourself to Live", "Fargo Rock City" (He is from ...