Celtics (17-7) at Mavericks (18-8) Game #25 12/18/19

[nickagneta]

[FLCeltsFan]

celtics will beat the living snot out of the stinky and odious mavs!!!!

flc, thanks for the thread, it is terrific as ever. one more tp to you ever-growing stockpile.

gooooooooooooooooooooo snot-beating celtics!!!

TP for always giving me a smile!!! 

[keevsnick]

The Celtics and Mavs should just agree to have a 3 minute stretch in 2nd quarter where the teams run nothing but Tacko vs Boban post ups. lets give the people what they really want.

[apc]

Hayward also out tonight, but hey maybe we will get to see our top pick rookie!

[Fafnir]

5 days off and two injuries argh....

[FLCeltsFan]

BAD REF ALERT:      Tony Brothers, who is widely known as one of the worst refs in the league, is the lead ref for this game.  He was voted the worst ref in the league by 24.5% of the players in their recent survey.  With Brothers, you never know what you will get.  Sometimes he calls everything on both teams.  Sometimes he lets both teams play.  And, sometimes he calls a game one sided for one of the teams.  Hopefully we get the Tony Brothers that lets them play both ways in this game.  Usually when fans of any team sees Brothers calling their games, they cringe.   

[nickagneta]

5 days off and two injuries argh....

And that's on top of finding Timelord's injury is much more serious than originally thought?

Players out tonight:
Smart
Hayward
Timelord
Poirier

Let's hope everyone else comes to play

[gpap]

Hayward's injured again.....shocker

The more this happens, a deal centered around Hayward for Love makes more and more sense.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

5 days off and two injuries argh....

And that's on top of finding Timelord's injury is much more serious than originally thought?

Players out tonight:
Smart
Hayward
Timelord
Poirier

Let's hope everyone else comes to play

Only the freakin Celtics could get hurt while not playing.

[tstorey_97]

Where is Kanter?

I didn't see him on the lineup card.

Methinks he would be a starting tonight....no?

As our bigs are beset with numerous plagues...we be needin' this Kanter fella.

[hpantazo]

Wonder what is actually going on with Hayward. Is it rest? How the heck can he have a sore foot after a week off?

[Fafnir]

Wonder what is actually going on with Hayward. Is it rest? How the heck can he have a sore foot after a week off?

Brad said on the radio he'd had some soreness for a while and received treatment for it on Friday.

So it could be some sort of soft tissue injury that didn't respond to the time off which made them worry about it more or just acted up real bad after practice.

[hpantazo]

Wonder what is actually going on with Hayward. Is it rest? How the heck can he have a sore foot after a week off?

Brad said on the radio he'd had some soreness for a while and received treatment for it on Friday.

So it could be some sort of soft tissue injury that didn't respond to the time off which made them worry about it more or just acted up real bad after practice.

Thanks. Hadn't seen that info from Brad.

[PAOBoston]

I guess this would be easier if we just got a list of players that ARE healthy and available. Gonna be tough tonight. Going to need good JT to show up To have a shot.

[footey]

Same left side that he broke; hope it's not related to his prior injury.