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Big Baby smiles after defeating Danny Ainge in a staring contest

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A Bent Double Joint

Warning: This exclusive production may contain rebounding that some people might find offensive, as well as some defensive rebounding too. Just not quite as much as we'd like...

Scene: A lonely figure strolls across a deserted parquet floor and toward the camera...

Lonely Figure: Hello! My name is Ike S. Peel and here we are in the Boston Garden, home of the Boston Celtics. It was here, earlier today, where we shot my documentary "Baby Doin' Work" about "Big Baby" Glen Davis, as the Celtics hosted the Indiana Pacers. We followed Big Baby around all day and he stuck around afterwards to add his commentary to the footage. What you will see here is one of the most...Hey, excuse me buddy. Excuse me! We're kinda filming here!

Another lonely figure is strolling across the court with a camera crew.

Other Lonely Figure: Yeah? We're filming too. It's our ground breaking documentary "Obie Doin' Work". Check it out...

He shows Ike a monitor, on which Jim O'Brien is relaying instructions to Troy Murphy.
Jim O'Brien: No, no...wave your hands around aimlessly and then when he makes his move, turn your head away from the ball and lumber recklessly back to your position under the basket. Trust me, this never failed to work when we ran it in practice against Mike James.

Ike shakes his head and looks back into the camera.

Ike: This film is about one great player, one day, on the job. Baby Doin' Work will be presented without commercial interruption. So, sit back and enjoy...Baby Doin' Work.

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Ray Allen is fierce

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Ray Allen's son had a birthday party today and they hired face painters.  Hilarity ensued. 

h/t Red's Army and Ball Don't Lie

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All together now, "My little buttercup..."

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A little weekend fun.  Create a caption for this pic.  Best answer gets to sing My Little Buttercup to the class.

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Caption This

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Best caption gets a Tommy Point technical foul.

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Here's wishing the Suns will buy Steve out and he'll sign with the Celtics....

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Jeff kicked of the morning with some reasonable guesses and mild SWAGs.   I went the other route in the spirit of the old Conan gag - in the Year 2000, what follows are some much wilder guesses, unfortunately I don't have LaBamba singing that creepy interlude between comments.

• The Suns decide that they should build around Amare Stoudemire and buyout Steve Nash (do they not realize that Nash is 46 years old?).  Steve signs with Celts to backup Rajon Rondo.   Ok that's a crazy wish.  Even crazier, Nash plays tremendous on-the-ball defense.  
• A ticked off Celtics team opens the season with a 24 and 0 stretch, losing its first game in Charlotte when Ray Allen misses the game to speak at the UN. 
• Kevin Garnett strains his neck slamming his head into the basket stantion before tipoff at a game in February.   He has to sit for two games to recover.  Thereafter the Celtics start taping a pillow to the stantion at home games.

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From SI.com (via SLAM)

"I just want some creativity, that's all I want,'' Redick said Saturday. "I haven't heard creative things since college. Like really, I don't know if it's the alcohol consumption at NBA games, but there's nothing remotely creative or funny ever said to me. It's boring. I'm so conditioned to it now.''

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"Hey Billy, have you seen Mikki?" -- "I'm right here coach!"

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Hollinger amusingly points out the reduced role that Mikki Moore has taken on this team despite our desperate need for frontcourt help.

Even though KG and Powe were out, Boston coach Doc Rivers' reluctance to use Mikki Moore in Game 4 was so obvious he might as well have been wearing a neon sign saying, "Mikki scares me!"

Moore played only six minutes in Game 4, and Rivers wouldn't let him near the court in the two overtimes, even when Kendrick Perkins had fouled out. Moore's stock has sunk to the point that in the crucial first overtime, Rivers decided he'd rather put in Brian Scalabrine, who hadn't played in two months and wasn't even on the team's active roster in last year's postseason.

In other words, Boston has effectively chosen to go down to a three-player big-man rotation, with Brian Scalabrine as No. 3. All of which is a roundabout way of saying that Perkins and Glen Davis absolutely, positively can't get in foul trouble, because the options behind them are so horrific.