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Sean Grande

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Voice of the Boston Celtics. The Winston Wolf of play-by-play guest starring on ESPN, FOX, NBC, CBS, SNY, Showtime, Netflix... Dana’s husband. Jack's dad. Your PBP1.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Nov 13

Like anyone moving into a new home after you've lived somewhere else for 14 years, this might take a while.

For the moment, I'll try to post the same things from Twitter, primarily information about the games I'm calling.

Where a 50-48 lead for example is a close game and not, you know, a mandate.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · 1d

MOST POINTS VS. CELTICS - NBA DEBUT

34 - VJ Edgecombe - Tonight
26 - Jahlil Okafor, Philadelphia, Oct. 28, 2015
19 - Larry Foust, Ft. Worth, Nov. 1, 1950
18 - Dino Martin, Providence, Nov. 2, 1946
16 - Vince Carter, Toronto, Feb. 5, 1999

Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · 1d

Sixers at Celtics - TD Garden - October 22, 2025

Opening night starters

Philadelphia - Tyrese Maxey. VJ Edgecombe, Kelly Oubre, Dom Barlow, Joel Embiid

Boston - Pritchard, White, Hauser, Brown, Queta

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · 8d

32 for Derrick White in 34 minutes tonight (plus 9 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 blocks).

He's only scored 32+ twice in 494 regular season games.

89-88, Celtics, 5:27 left @985TheSportsHub

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · 15d

The 2024-25 Celtics shattered the NBA record by attempting 48.2 three-pointers per game.

In the pre-season opener tonight against the Grizzlies?

53.

Celtics had 21 double-digit road wins last year, they start the pre-season with one tonight, 121-103 in Memphis.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Feb 15

There is no one who's played for the Celtics, no one who's coached the Celtics, no one who's called Celtics games, no one...who better represents what it means to be one, than Jeff Twiss.

He is the keeper of the Celtics legacy.

And now he..is a basketball immortal.

Perfection.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Aug 14

Pretty color calendar version hot off the e-presses...

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Aug 14

And that, begs this subplot question...

The Celtics have gone 11 years (December 2014) and 866 games without a five game losing streak.

Celtics have a season-high 5-game road trip at Christmas, but could this be the biggest threat?

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Aug 14

Now that the schedule is out...will the Celtics make the playoffs?

Boston of course has the longest active streak of making it (11). In fact, there have only been 18 streaks in NBA history of 11+ post-season appearances.

The Celtics have three of those 18...

Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Aug 14

But enough of the tasting menu, here's the whole thing...

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Aug 14

Reunion week....

Jrue Holiday returns to Boston: Mon. Jan. 26
Kristaps Porzingis returns to Boston: Wed. Jan. 28

Luke Kornet (and that Spurs other center) in Boston Sat. Jan. 10.

Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Aug 13

Two of the four NBA Cup Group Play Celtics games will be nationally televised...

Oct. 31 in Phily and Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving, a 5pm start vs. Detroit.

Other two will be Nov. 7 in Orlando and Nov. 21 vs. Brooklyn.

Add Oct. 24 at NY and Jan. 19 at Detroit, rest gets released tomorrow.

Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Jun 24

Simons, by the way, just turned 26.

He hasn't been very healthy, but has developed into a plus-shooter the last few years (39% from 3, 89% from the line the last five years.)

And in case you weren't feeling old enough, yes, his parents named him after Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Jun 24

The inevitable quickly becomes reality.

And with it, dies the idea that we can ever compare teams from the 2020's, with NBA teams from other eras across multiple years.

OKC is our 7th champion in 7 years.

And this is clearly what the NBA is now designed to produce.

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · Jun 24

FROM SHAMS:

BREAKING: The Boston Celtics have traded Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trail Blazers for Anfernee Simons and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Jun 23

Points off turnovers: 32-10, OKC.

Shot margin decided Game 7.

Pacers outshot the Thunder from the floor, from 3 and from the line...

...but OKC got 17 extra shots, and wins by 12.

Former Celtic Aaron Nesmith in Game 7:
On court: 30 minutes: +6
Off court: 18 minutes: Pacers were -18

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Jun 12

2022 Celtics
Under .500 on Jan. 1
8 games out in the East
35-12 finish
8-3 on the road in the playoffs...
...a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals

2025 Pacers
Under .500 on Jan. 1
13½ games out in the East
34-14 finish
6-3 on the road in the playoffs...
...a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals

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Chris Merlo @chrismerlo.net · Jun 6

I did not know how universal it is for the color commentator to walk all over the call. We really are all the same.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Jun 1

The Knicks fall short in their quest for their first NBA title since 1973.

In 18 playoff games, they ended up scoring the exact same number of points as they gave up...

...1972

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · Jun 1

Higher seed loses in unfathomable fashion at the start.

Home team loses the first three.

Home team wins the final three, including staving off elimination with a Game 5 blowout, and closing it out easily in Game 6.

The Knicks' series with Boston and Indiana were mirror images.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · May 26

Road team in the Eastern Conference Playoffs...

Conference Quarter-Finals: 11-9
Conference Semi-Finals: 4-7
Conference Finals: 0-3

Overall: 15-19

Knicks are 6-1 on the road heading into Game 4 at the Fieldhouse Tuesday night...

6 wins by a total of 18 points.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · May 23

If this is starting to look familiar...

Through two games of the Conference Finals:

'25 Oklahoma City
10-3 (+14.1 differential)

'24 Boston
10-2 (+11.3 differential)

Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · May 22

Pacers had a 99.8% chance to win Game 1 of last year's ECF...Celtics win.

Celtics had a 98.3% chance to win Game 1 in Boston two weeks ago...Knicks win.

Knicks had a 99.7% chance to win Game 1 tonight...Pacers win.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · May 21

...all this to say, while OKC (26-point winners in Game 1 of the WCF) try to win a championship and preserve the long-standing sanctity of the regular season/scoring margin, it is time to ponder how close we are to becoming the NHL…where just "making the tournament”, not the seed, is the goal?

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · May 21

The Cavs by the way (9.54) finished with the 5th best margin in NBA history to NOT win the title, Celtics finished 8th. No team in an 82-game season ever finished with a +9.52 and failed to make the Conference Finals...

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · May 21

Even crazier, in a playoff run that will obviously be remembered as a disappointment, the 2024-25 Celtics, who finished with a 9.11 scoring margin (5th best in franchise history, 22nd in NBA history), were actually running ahead of that (9.90) in the playoffs until Game 6.

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Sean Grande @seangrandepbp.bsky.social · May 21

It hasn’t felt like the time to do mathematical forensics on what we all saw, but before we put the work away for the summer, this was the oddest stat of a truly odd playoff series.

The Celtics played 186 halves this year.

Two of their worst (Game 6) came immediately after one of their best.

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