Avery Bradley News

The lottery is very, very important. The draft itself will be telling and key to the future.

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Avery Bradley appears on track for a return next Friday from his right ankle sprain.

For the second straight season, it's been a challenging year for Avery Bradley. Back in 2012-13, the guard was hampered by offseason shoulder surgery that sidelined him for the start of the regular season and limited his production once he did return to the floor.

I've always kind of taken it as a given that there will be fireworks this summer.

"They had a contract situation and I knew that," the Celtics guard said of the veteran contracts the Nets were adding to their payroll.

Number 34 jerseys are more prevalent than normal at the TD Garden Friday night, but not as overwhelmingly everywhere as they were on Jan. 26. Paul Pierce playing against the Boston Celtics will always remain strange, but it's not as big a scene now that he's done it once before.

Boston Celtics guard Avery Bradley has missed 10 of his last 11 games due to an ankle injury.

Avery Bradley, who hasn't been able to shake injuries and their subsequent surgeries his entire career, at least received some encouraging news today.

The sophomore guard, averaging 21.3 points in the Wolverines' ongoing four-game win streak, is now up to No.

The Celtics currently have the 4th worst record. I know last night's blowout felt like 10 losses, but it still only counts as one.

The Celtics continue their five-game homestand with another difficult game, this time against the Golden State Warriors, who over the past few years have emerged as one of the more entertaining teams in the NBA.

The sixth part of the Boston Celtics pick and roll defense series takes a brief look at the team's performance when an individual guard or wing is involved in the pick and roll.

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On Monday night's "Celtics At 7," Adam Jones takes a look at Rajon Rondo's much-improved shooting touch.

"You can only take moral victories out of something like this for so long," Jared Sullinger said following Saturday's relatively close loss at the Garden to perhaps the best team in the NBA, the Indiana Pacers.

Seven games back of the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference with 22 to play is pretty much an impossible distance to overcome, so to the lottery the Celtics head in June, making the next few months in Boston fascinating.

However, that is just the point, isn't it? When Paul Pierce , Kevin Garnett and Doc Rivers exited the Boston Celtics family last summer, and again when Rondo first donned the "C" on that green jersey, he became more than just a professional basketball player.

Celtic Pride is made up of many things: heart, pride, grit, determination, the list goes on.

The Boston Celtics ' plan has been clear from the beginning. Boston is tanking in order to obtain a high-lottery draft pick in the deep 2014 NBA Draft.