Delonte West and the Boston Celtics are finally back home again, and will tonight have an opportunity to win their second straight against the New York Knicks. Both teams come into tonight’s contest having won their last game.
The Celtics will look to exploit a new weakness for the Knicks team — the absense of Jamal Crawford. As Yahoo Sports reports…
Guard Jamal Crawford kept the New York Knicks in the playoff hunt Monday. He may not have the chance to do so again.
The Knicks confirmed Tuesday that Crawford has a stress fracture in his right ankle and will be sidelined indefinitely.
The team’s best clutch player this season, Crawford was one of the heroes of Monday’s 99-93 victory over Miami, scoring 20 points and making a key 3-pointer in the waning seconds.
For more on tonight’s game, check out the Yahoo! Sports Preview.
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Despite winning their last game at home before the All Star break, the Boston Celtics continue to struggle now that they’re on their five game West coast road trip.
The Celtics opened up the trip with a 101-104 loss to Sacramento, where Delonte West scored 23 points. The trip has continued on with a 118-108 loss to the Suns, a 122-96 loss to the Lakers and finally a 105-87 loss to the Jazz Saturday night in Utah. Monday night the Celtics will look to snap the four game skid with a win over the Houston Rockets.
Despite the team’s poor record for the trip, Delonte West has continued to play well and have averaged 17 points through the four losses — six points higher than his season average.
Monday’s game against the Rockets will tip off at 8:30PM ET with coverage provided by FSN. The last time the Rockets and Celtics met, the Rockets came away with a 91-73 win. In that game back on December 7, 2005 — Delonte had 12 points in 38 minutes of play.
With these past four losses, the Celtics have dropped to 13 and 42 — good enough for the leagues worst record.
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Despite a 23 point effort from Delonte West to go along with a 26 point night for Paul Pierce, the Boston Celtics lost the first game of their difficult five game road trip. With the loss, the Celtics drop to 13 and 39 on the year.
Delonte West played a total of forty five minutes and hit nine of his sixteen shot attempts, including five of eight from beyond the three point line. West also added in six rebounds, seven assists and one steal while becoming the Celtics second leading scorer in the game.
The Celtics are back on the road and playing again on Wednesday night when they visit the Phoenix Suns in a 9:00PM game that will be broadcast on FSN New England. In that game, West will likely start opposite of MVP candidate Steve Nash — unless changes are made to the lineup as a result of Wally Szczerbiak’s most recent ankle injury.
Note: Wally went down tonight against the Kings when retreating on defense and stepping on Paul Pierce’s foot. No immediate condition was available late Tuesday night.
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With a win last week over the Bucks, the Celtics snapped their franchise worst 18 game losing streak. Now, the Celtics return to action after the All Star break, and hope to start a winning streak for the first time in more than two months.
Tonight the Celtics will visit the Sacramento Kings in a 10:00PM contest that will be broadcast on FSN New England. The Celtics lost to the Kings back on January 19th in a 96 to 91 contest played in Boston. Delonte West was the Celtics leading scorer that night with his 25 point effort.
For more on the game, please check out the Yahoo! Sports preview as well as the preview over on Celtics.com.
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Delonte West and the Boston Celtics stopped the bleeding with a 117-97 win over the Milwaukee Bucks before the All Star break.
Delonte earned six points, five rebounds, six assists, three steals and two blocks while committing just one turnover in twenty eight minutes of play. The Celtics, with the win, snapped their franchise worst 18 game losing streak in the win.
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