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"Celtic Pride" with Jeff Hickman and Patrick Gilroy returns for season 7

The Celtic Pride radio show with Jeff Hickman and Patrick Gilroy will return for the duo's seventh season.  "Celtic Pride", a weekly call in radio show, is the longest running NBA/Celtics show on Boston's airwaves and can be heard Saturday mornings from 10-11 AM.    Says host Patrick Gilroy "it is an honor to continue to talk Celtics basketball for a living.  ‘Celtic Pride' is truly a childhood dream come true."

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The Celtics improve to 4-0 on the season tonight after defeating the New Orleans Hornets at home. Celtics Stuff Live was not short on topics considering how the game ended with Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo needing to be separated by Paul Pierce as they left the court. It has also been reported that Chris Paul attempted to enter the Celtics locker room after the game as well, which means that we have another budding rivalry on our hands folks.

Sean Grande joined us for the first 12 minutes of the show to kick things off before he and Max took their act to the CSN television studios following the game. Sean was an excellent guest as always and stated that he has no doubt who the best team in the NBA is right now. As we like to do here on CSL, Jon and Justin agreed. Sean made note of the KG's lateral movement being the deciding factor in these games as he is capable of defending at a high level even if only at 85-90% right now.

Callers, e-mails, and tweets made the show as we heard from Silverlock who was at the game, Greg from Cleveland (following up on the season opening loss to our beloved C's), the Scotsman (our one and only regular caller), and Michael from halfway around the world in Melbourne who had a Monday off from work and was able to catch the game on the internet. E-mails from fellow bloggers North Station Sports and Loscy echoed the themes from our callers about the improved inside game exhibited by Ray Allen, a quicker Paul Pierce with a first step that has changed his game, and Shelden Williams contributions in Glen's absence. There's more, so listen to the show!

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The Celtics beat the Cavs. Hooray!

Of course it was the exhibition season finale, so who the hell knows what that really means. But we do know that the Cavs threw quite a bit more of their starters at the Celtics reserve laden lineup, and despite this fact... the C's won going away. Jon, Justin, and Kevin Henkin wrapped up the exhibition season and tried to read the tea leaves into who will make this 15 man roster, and who might not if Mike Sweetney does if reports by Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski today on twitter. Justin leaned on Tony Allen as the weakest link, but Kevin and Jon were of the mind that Giddens is more vulnerable due to the trade value of TA's contract. Jon called Mo Williams, he of the ridiculous antics on the bench during last year's end of regular season Cavs rout, a "frontrunning turd." No response from Mo's camp, but he was last seen taking a sweet shot to his mug courtesy of @CSL_Duke's BFF, @SheldenWilliams.

Catch us Sunday at 9 PM when the Boston Herald's Steve Bulpett puts up with Jon and Justin.

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So Converse asked me to review a new line of sneakers they are releasing.  I'm a sucker for free swag, and it is the offseason, so I agreed.  Note to other marketing departments, I'll totally review your stuff if you send it to me for free - just know that I'll give an honest assessment.

So right up front I'll tell you I'm a Nike guy.  I have been since high school.  Part of that is because I went along with the crowd and got hooked early on.  And part of it is because they fit my size 14 feet better than other brands (adidas seems a half size off and they don't come in half sizes past size 14).  So the upshot is that this is the first pair of Converse basketball shoes I've ever worn.  So here's my review.

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Celtics Stuff Live is broadcasting immediately following the game tonight. Join is and offer up your postgame analysis by calling our toll free number. Please join us tonight!

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Why let Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Bill Walker and the Celtics have all the fun?  Here's a chance to give to some school kids in Massachusetts.  I'll let Tom Ziller explain:

SB Nation as a whole as entered the DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge, in which SBN competes against various other networks in a fundraising effort for schools around the nation. Bragging rights are at stake, but more importantly, it's a concerted effort to help teachers and schools get the things they need for kids in less than fortunate situations. Teachers submit funding proposals, DonorsChoose vets them, and donors make the requests happen. There is a corporate element, and some foundations (including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) are involved in matching donations on some projects.

See the CelticsBlog giving page here.

Just a programming note.  We'll have a man on the scene (JimmyT) to report on the sights and sounds from Celtics Media Day in Waltham.  Any interview question requests?  (No guarantees)  Check CelticsBlog early and often for live updates and a recap later in the day.

CelticsBlog is powered by SBNation, which is a fantastic and growing network of some of the best sports blogs on the web.  However, up to this point their homepage was little more than a listing of blogs.  All that has changed radically.

SBNation.com is now a dynamic sports website with dedicated authors and a new way of reporting each sports story.  Here's how it is being described:

SBNation.com will seek to do on a national level what each SB Nation network blog already does for its team or sport: provide the most timely, engaging and highest quality fan perspective information and conversation on the web

Let me give you an example.  Say you were interested in the Allen Iverson saga that played out over the last week.  SBNation.com has a dedicated page just for that story, with rolling updates every time something new happens.  It is like having a blog just to track that one story.

You'll just have to check it out for yourself.  I would recommend bookmarking the SBNation NBA page or the SBNation.com homepage.

For more details on the relaunch, please check out their Welcome page.