Celtics at Bucks 8:00 PM

“Starting lineup for the Celtics is projected as Rondo, West, Green, Gomes and Perk.”

hmmmm… and with a bench of ray, powe, and telfair i find it hard to believe the celtics will win this one.

I actually read that first line as “The Celtics will be tanking on the Milwaukee Bucks tonight at the Bradley Center.”

Tanking is futile because Mr. Stern decides where the really good players go. So let’s blow ’em out tonight.

Frank, Please leave it alone! Stern will not be picking who gets what in the lottery. Memphis will not win because the worst team almost never wins. Boston will be well positioned as in the last couple of drafts the fifth and sixth place teams have won the top pick. So it’s the turn of the odds that the 2nd or 3rd place teams win again.

I agree with Brick, Stern will decide who should get #1. BTW, I read on the RealGM Milwaukee bouard that Redd, Williams and Skinner are all out tonight. LMFAO!

For the love of god, just lose the game. Put Doc in there. I don’t care. Just lose. The C’s cannot win another game for the rest of the season without risking their 2 spot.

They just said it on FSN. Redd and Skinner are both out with … get this… left knee pain. LOL

They asked Tommy on the pregame show what he would do if he was coaching tonight and he said that he would have Rondo shooting 3 pointers, Perk playing point guard and Ray posting up and going to the basket. I’m with Tommy…

Celtics are 10-12 since All-Star game, that’s hardly tanking. Now, what Miwaukee is doing deserves some looking-into.

My prediction that Milwaukee’s 5 starters would be diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease shortly before the game was pretty close. This is — by far — the most blatant tank job I have ever seen.

And you can be assured that the Commissioner will do nothing about it.

what a farce!

next time i meet a bucks fan i’m going to belt them

Rivers is going to have to bench Kevinn Pinkney, who is the Celtics leading scorer and who is actually trying.

Change the Lottery as others have said. Bottom half of the lottery have an equal percentage chance to get the #1 pick, the top half have less of percentage to get the #1,2 pick etc. but still have enough of percentage to get a good pick.

I’m enjoying this guy K. Pinkney….Reminds me of a Keon Clark – but with heart.

So West hobbles to the locker room with an “ankle sprain,” Gomes keeps jacking up treys and we get to see Perk dribble between his legs.

No one outtanks Doc Rivers, no one. He has a special talent for it.

The Celts seem to me to be missing shots and making turnovers on purpose.

I find it hard to knock the Bucks for tanking if you accept the Celts doing it. What are we talking about, degrees of tanking?

Stern should change the rule so that all non-playoff teams have the same odds in the lottery.

Some might argue this would encourage teams not to try for the #8 seed, but the fact is owners want that additional playoff revenue, and upsets can happen. Players and coaches make their reps in the playoffs, so there’s incentive to get in.

Would it be that unfair if a mediocre team like Minnesota got a #1 pick over Boston or Memphis? Not really — it was just cited that the 5th and 6th worst teams have won the #1 the last couple years.

It should be an easy fix.

Now we know why Ainge acquired Telfair: to lose this game.

How about eliminating the draft entirely, have all rookies become free agents? Maybe you could give the bad teams a little extra salary cap room. We definately need to change the system, where teams feel they need to suck to get better.

what a wonderful day!

sun is shinning (here atleast it is).. celtisc are loosing, bucks are winning.. ahhh.. i am soo happy!

fact is that Boston has had legitimate injuries all season. we deserve a low pick!

Well we have had injuries. Legitimate is debatable…

I wonder if they could add some correction into the lottery based on player-games lost due to injury…so that teams that lose because all their players are “injured” don’t get precedence over teams that legitimately just aren’t that good.

The basketball gods will punish the Celtics and the Bucks for this travesty. I’m not sure how, but they will.

have no fear-doc is here. he made all the right substitutions, especially telfair who could not hit the broad side of a barn. give him a tommy point.

No way, Oden is a PERFECT fit in Boston for the league. Ready made market with actual talent on the team, national fan base hungry for a legit team.

With tonight’s Celtic loss safely in the books, the next ultimate tankathon will be a Friday swoonfest between Milwaukee and Atlanta. If the Bucks can’t pull out a road loss against the determined Hawks (1-9 in their last ten games), then realistically, they’ll lose any chance of sliding below Boston, and will probably have to give way to Atlanta. Man, what pressure. It’s fan-tastic!

If Doc was trying to tank last night, which watching that game you’d have to wonder, he is no where near as culpable as Milwaukee. Holding those three out with no real injury after having all three play is a lot more blatant than anyone else this season. I wonder if Boykins got a severe talking to afterwards?!

Enough of this Stern choosing the draft order talk. That is just plain hysteria and ignorance. Something would leak somewhere and the NBA would lose billions of dollars. That is just stupidity to repeat such nonsense…