Twitter hastaken over so much of the world, so to no one’s surpsie, it ruled today’s NBATrade Deadline, for better and worse. Atour flagship station in Boston, I was asked to give them a “heads up” on anymoves the Celtics might make.
But here's the thing, with Twitter there is no more “heads up”, there is only “never mind.”
Ray Allen wastraded about 3,600 times on Twitter this morning, none as it turns out, it reallife.
Never mind.
In any case,just a quick reminder what happened the last time we were told theCeltics were about to trade Ray Allen, two years ago at the 2010 deadline. In the final year of his contract, traderumors centered on Ray the entire 09-10 season right up to deadline day. His numbers that year before the deadline?
GAMES FG% 3FG% FT% 20+ pts
Before 2010 Deadline 50 .447 .333 .894 9
You know therest, or maybe you don’t. But either way, Ray went on an historic tear throughthe rest of the season, the run to Game 7 of the NBA Finals, and all the waythrough the following year, passing Reggie Miller to become the NBA’s three-point shooting champion, and going afull calendar year, at age 35, averaging the shooter’s holy trinity of 50% fromthe field, 40% from the three and 90% from the line.
While KevinMartin’s shot 43%, and played fewer minutes, for Houston.
Let’s look atthose numbers again now, before the deadline, and in the 30 games that followedhis not being traded….
Before 2010 Deadline 50 .447 .333 .894 9
Now for goodmeasure, let’s tack on his full 2010-2011 season, including the playoffs…
Before 2010 Deadline 50 .447 .333 .894 9
So, take from itwhat you will. But it’s easy, in the ageof video games and fantasy drafts, to lose the human element of prosports. But it is undeniable. Ray himself was adamant in 2010 that thetrade rumors didn’t bother him. You candecide for yourself.
But for thosewho thought the Celtics should have pulled the trigger on a Ray Allen dealtoday, or Pierce or Garnett or even Rondo, remember the Celtics are playingbetter now than they were two years ago at this time.
2009-2010 Celtics from Christmas on: 28-27 (+0.6 differential)
And we know howthat turned out.
Some miscellaneousnotes on the Celtics ride from San Francisco to Sacramento…
** Friday nightat the building-formerly-known-as-Arco begins a most unusual stretch for theCeltics. Waiting to hear from Elias onjust how unique, but the Celtics will now play their next four games…in fourdifferent time zones.
** Milestonemonth continues for Kevin Garnett. Mondaynight he passed Moses Malone to move into 11th on the NBA’s all-timeminutes played list. If he averages 24/minutes a game the rest of the year, he’llpass Robert Parish into the top 10. Butthe big one could come as early as Friday, he’s four assists from 5,000 for hisNBA career. It will give him 20,000points, 10,000 rebounds, 5,000 assists, 1,500 blocks and 1,500 steals, joining a class…of no one. It's never been done. KG clinched the Hall of Fame somewhere around2005. If there’s a VIP room within theHall of Fame? With velvet ropes andfancy appetizers? Yeah, he’s in there,too.
** Speaking ofmilestones, congratulations to Tim Duncan on moving into the top 25 on the NBA’sall-time scoring list. But don’t get toocomfortable. It won’t be a longstay. Paul Pierce is closing fast. Duncan won the race to Clyde Drexler and thetop 25, but he won’t win the marathon. The Celtics captain will likely pass Drexler before the Celtics returnhome next weekend. 103 points behindDuncan, he’ll need to average 4.3 points per game more than Duncan to move intothe top 25 by the end of the year, and move directly behind, wait for it…RayAllen.
NBA ALL-TIME SCORINGLEADERS – AS OF MARCH 15, 2012
| 23. | ELGIN BAYLOR | 23149 |
| 24. | Ray Allen | 22826 |
| 25. | Tim Duncan | 22228 |
| 26. | CLYDE DREXLER | 22195 |
| 27. | Paul Pierce | 22125 |
** The win inOakland was the Celtics’ 5th straight when scoring 100 points. That’s not all that unusual, until you considerthe C’s started this very strange year 0-3 when scoring 100.
** Yes, therebounding numbers. They are what theyare. The Celtics, down to one truecenter on the roster, a center whose primary professional minutes before thisyear came in Turkey and Korea, are last in the league in rebounding. The win in Oakland last night moved them to15-2 when outrebounding opponents, and ended an incredible run of games. In the previous five, the Celtics had beenoutrebounded by 80. 80. 16 a game. And still won three of the five.
** And makinghis debut in the bullet-point section, is one of the most improved players inthe NBA. Avery Bradley’s meteoric rise into the rotation began with his lockdown of Jameer Nelson on January 23rd. And the numbers show it. In the 15 games Avery Bradley has playedfewer than 10 minutes, the Celtics are 5-10. When he does play 10+ minutes, theCeltics are 18-9. Making him, the anti-Gerald Green. (At least the 2007 version.)
** And continuinga tradition started nearly a decade ago, the Celtics traveling party stopped onthe road from San Francisco to Sacramento at In N Out Burger. An unintentional yet still dead-on homage tothe last 24 hours in the life of Dwight Howard.
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