Boston Celtics Links - 10/1/08

by Jim Weeks on Oct 1, 2008 3:24 PM EDT in Green Bandwagon Comment 2 comments

- I vaguely recall Darius Miles being strongly associated with Baskin-Robbins in a negative way. In light of that I grinned slightly when I read the title of Mark Murphy's article today. And even though it turned out to be one of those feel good training camp articles where it feels like everything will work out, I thought Miles made a great point:

“We’ve known since February that this was going to happen,” Miles said yesterday of the 10-game suspension he is about to serve for testing positive for the banned substance phentermine, a common ingredient in diet pills. “So they announce it on the day that the Celtics go to the White House (to be honored as last season’s champions). What is it that everyone heard that day? The Celtics go to the White House and Darius Miles gets suspended for 10 games. That was messed up.”

And for what it's worth Paul Pierce is in Miles' corner.

- According to Marc J. Spears KG is a Miles fan as well:

"Last week, Garnett expressed excitement about seeing that same ol' Miles. Considering how the Blazers - very wise of late - dropped Miles, Garnett's excitement about the player once nicknamed "Baby KG" made me very curious to see whether he still could play.
"D-Miles looks very good," Garnett said last week. "I'm very impressed. I've been a big fan of his since day one. You know he wants the opportunity and wants this more than anything. That makes it more inspiring and inspirational than anything."

- Spears also has the latest on Ray Allen's campaign against diabetes.

- Yesterday I mentioned how happy I was the Celtics were not headed abroad this preseason. Doc Rivers agrees. He's also in mid season form with the witty comments. See his take on the Newport mansions. Finally, I don't think I've mentioned my excitement for the Bill Walker era enough. I just might make this an unofficial Walker blog.

- Over the last couple of days more details have come to light about how limited Kendrick Perkins will be for the first stretch of camp. And until proven otherwise I'm not sure how what that will mean for season as well. In the meantime Patrick O'Bryant is getting his shot.

- Frank Dell'Apa dives into the training camp destination, the location of exhibition games, and the fact that Paul Pierce is a big tennis fan. Who knew?

- Celtics.com has its post up notebook (catch the D-Miles interview) and a photo gallery as well. Despite my best efforts I briefly freaked out when I saw Tony Allen icing his knee. Completely irrational on my part.

- Get your Boston Celtics season preview fill at CelticsBlog, Loy's Place, Red's Army, and of course Green Bandwagon.

- Also catch random training camp thoughts at Loy's Place, some Larry Brown musings at CelticsBlog, and a wire to wire prediction at Red's Army.

- Perk is a Beast rips off some posts on media day scenes, the Brian Scalabrine, Perk of course (shoulder is fine?), and a phenomenal Clifford Ray interview. Phenomenal.

- Projo.com has stories about the C's bonding in Newport and Perk doing drills, but not contact.

- Catch a new faces post at Celtics 24/7 that may be minus the new faces.

- Lex Nihil Novi has a post on J.R. Giddens and some info on Miles' desire to play last season.

- SI.com talks about the C's need for a new source of motivation while USA Today looks at the bid to repeat.

- Finally head over to ESPN for the Power Rankings and Hollinger's Celtics forecast.

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Miles' suspension announcement

I’m a Blazer fan who is glad to see Darius gone, and I won’t be sad if he doesn’t make the Celtics.

But I agree that the timing of the announcement was wrong. I suspect the league office doesn’t really like Darius very much, and doesn’t want him to come back. Some people in Portland accused the Blazers of leaking the news on this suspension earlier to try to scare other teams off. I wonder now if it was the league that leaked it — they did send an email to all the other teams about it.

Good luck to the Celtics, and if Darius does play, I hope he doesn’t blow out his knee badly as the doctor warned he might. It would be a shame if he never gets to play ball with his kid. It’s too bad he’s willing to risk that just for a little more money or ego, but that’s Darius, I’m afraid.

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by jscot on Oct 2, 2008 9:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Miles

“Good luck to the Celtics, and if Darius does play, I hope he doesn’t blow out his knee badly as the doctor warned he might. It would be a shame if he never gets to play ball with his kid. It’s too bad he’s willing to risk that just for a little more money or ego, but that’s Darius, I’m afraid.”

I appreciate your take on this one. At the same time I understand Miles’ desire to go out on his own terms. It’s his body. He’s not putting anyone else at risk. Meanwhile, I’m not sure the league’s announcement was a malicious thing. But it seemed shortsighted, given there wasn’t a ton going on at that point. I just want to see what Miles can do. I’ve heard enough about what percentage healthy he is and so on. Let’s see what he can do.

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by Jim Weeks on Oct 2, 2008 6:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs