Jessica Camerato over at WEEI's Green Street gives us a first glance at brand new Celtic Marcus Landry. Some highlights:

• While at Wisconsin, Landry was featured on ESPN.com for juggling academics, athletics, and fatherhood.

• Following summer league, Landry paid his own way to try out with the Knicks in New York. While there he stayed at an $80-a-night hotel, out of his own pocket.

Now does he sound like he's of the mold of someone we used to know and love, or does he?

RealGM reports:

Multiple sources say the Knicks have reached a tentative agreement on a deal with Boston sending Nate Robinson and a second player to the Celtics for Eddie House, J.R. Giddens and Bill Walker.

Marcus Landry will be the other player sent to Boston, according to a source that spoke with RealGM's Christopher Reina.

The source of the information is apparently ESPN. I guess Landry for Giddens and Walker is a wash, but if this is what is going to get the deal done, fine.

The Cavaliers have acquired Antawn Jamison in a three-team deal involving the Wizards and the Clippers. The deal also involves Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Brian Skinner, Al Thornton, Sebastian Telfair, and Drew Gooden. A first round pick will also change hands in the deal.

This has apparently been broken by Wizards insider Michael Lee at the Washington Post. More information on this deal can be found in this RealGM article and via Twitter at the Wizards Insider site.

The Celtics have now allowed the opposition to shoot .450 or better from the field in 4 of the last 5 games, and as a result is a very pedestrian 3-2 in those.

Whatever happened to the team that took pride in its defense?!

Throw in the fact that we were also outrebounded in 4 of the last 5 contests (despite being a very good reboudning team over the last two seasons -- with and without Garnett), and it seems like Doc has his work cut out for him. Either that, or it's time for the players to step it up.

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Mercifully, Kelly Dwyer's top 10 lists seem to have come to an end with the Top 10 players of the decade. Not before he made a fool of himself again, though.

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Found the following comment at Yahoo:

"Mikki Moore does not fit well with them at all, says one East scout. One of their problems is that Big Baby [Davis] can’t hit a shot outside of five feet. Moore does not help with that. His shot is awful. He can’t pass, he can’t put the ball on the floor. He provides energy, but not much else."

Davis is actually probably better shooting from 15 feet than trying to finish under the basket. It comes as no surprise than then this "scout" has no cluse that Moore actually _can_ shoot. This guy is incompetent.

Tom Heinsohn's wife Helen, known to those who follow the Celtics on Comcast SportsNet and NBA TV as "the red-head from Needham", lost her battle with cancer yesterday. She was diagnosed with the condition in 2002, and I believe that her condition was the principal reason why Tommy has stopped doing away games as of late.

The thoughts and prayers of the whole Celtics nation should be with our favorite homer right now more than any other time.

R. I . P.

Here's a nice article from the Globe archives.