Where In The League Is...?: Former Celtics C's Opportunities Across The Globe

In the world of sportsblogging, snoozing isn't necessarily losing. Just take the Boston Globe's recent photo tour "Celtics: Catching Up With Old Friends," something I had planned to do a very similar feature on at about the mid-season point.

Sure, it would have been fun to put together the material I started compiling about the Big Three's former teammates, but the Globe did yeoman's work in assembling the photos and text, and lets face it...we have an...um...shall we say, slightly smaller fan base than the folks over at Boston.com (thanks for reading once again, Mom!)

If you get a couple of minutes and want to check out how our former green-teamers are doing, why not go on over to Boston.com and check it out?

Barbosa, Green Rock As Celtics Tune Out Jazz: 98-93

Can...You...Dig It!!!!???

The Celtics extended their win streak to 3, beating the Utah Jazz thanks to some inspired play from Jeff Green (16 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists) and Leandro Barbosa (16 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists) who started the fire for a Celtics team that couldn't quite shake a fast-breaking, hard-rebounding Utah team, and later replaced a gimpy Rajon Rondo to help pilot the C's to a 98-93 win at home.

Before the Brazilian Blur took an extended solo on the Jazz interior defense, Utah big men Paul Millsap (a Mon-star like 20 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal) and old Celtic Al Jefferson (13 points, 14 relentless rebounds, 3 assists) had their way on the parquet. Gordon Hayward and Mo Williams got a few powerful licks in as well with 14 apiece.

Paul Pierce (broken record here, folks) scored a team-high 23, though he did it on less-than-stellar 7-17 shooting. Rondo (on auto-loop) again reached double-digit assists before turning his right ankle and sitting out the rest of the game.

But, the story, indeed, was Barbosa and the re-emergence of pre-season Green who acted like a real @$$hole and aggressively attacked the hoop during important stretches of the game when the teams traded baskets in a close contest.

Also worthy of note: Chris Wilcox continues to give Coach Doc Rivers confidence enough to rest Kevin Garnett for longer minutes, keeping him fresh for the critical home-stretch. Wilcox played 18 minutes to KG's 30.

The C's appear to be tightening up the defense along with the much-improved offense and their effort against the Jazz gave them a .500 record at home moving forward.

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THE BUZZ:

The C's won't have much time to celebrate the win, though...next up, the Brooklyn Nets...back-to-back, Jack!! Will Rondo play? Tune in and find out!

Boston Celtics vs. Brooklyn Nets
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
8:00 pm
@ The Barclays Center

LET'S GO, C'S!!!