Since there actually will be an NBA season this year, we have decided to preview every NBA team except the Kings, Raptors, Cavs, Pistons, and Bobcats because all of those teams suck and are not interesting either. Actually, we may get to them eventually but the plan is to profile a team a day until Christmas which leaves us with 30 teams in 25 days so some teams may get left out. I apologize to Jimmer, Michael Jordan (really, Mike, I am sorry. Please don't hurt me.), and Canada.
Today, the Boston Celtics:
When the Celtics won the finals after trading for Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, the one question mark in their starting lineup was at point guard. It is the most important position in basketball. Rajon Rondo was in his second year in the NBA and turned out to be just good enough to help the Celtics win a championship.
Paul Pierce, Allen, and Garnett have since gotten older, slower, less durable, and in KG's case, crazier. Rondo, who was once thought of as a weak spot, is now the best player on the Celtics. He is a triple-double threat and occasionally puts up one of those crazy stat lines like 5 points, 17 assists, and 12 rebounds.
Since the playoffs ended last season, Rondo has been involved in trade talk with the Zombie Sonics (the potential trade had Rondo and Jeff Green going to OKC for Russell Westbrook and Kendrick Perkins) and the Hornets (Rondo for Chris Paul) but remains a Celtic. They tried to trade him, were unable to, and now they say that they love him and will not trade him.
If a Rondo for Paul trade happened, the Celtics would make a serious run at a championship. But CP3 has said that he wouldn't sign an extension with the Celtics and that would leave the team without Rondo or Chris Paul, and a bunch of old guys that are past their prime.
The best possible outcome for Boston this year is if Rondo's arm heals from the gruesome dislocation he had against the Heat last year and he somehow learns to shoot a jumpshot. It would be like the exact same thing that happened in the movie "Rookie Of The Year."
The worst thing that could happen to the Celtics is Rondo grows tired of their front office treating him like poop. They traded away his best friend (Kendrick Perkins) last year and this year they are shopping their boy around like Cam Newton's father did. Kevin Garnett could be officially diagnosed as insane after he murders Zaza Pachulia. Ray Allen could sign on to do another Spike Lee movie in which shooting begins during the first round of the playoffs when the Knicks play the Celtics. And if the Celtics are playing that poorly, Doc Rivers will start to throw games in order to get the number one overall pick to draft his son, Austin.
This season will be the fourth time gunning another title:
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