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Brian Scalabrine reveals his craziest teammates on the Boston Celtics

With names like Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Scott Pollard, and Glen Davis in the mix, you don’t want to miss his response.

The 2007-08 Boston Celtics were not just a championship club but also a collection of unique and intense personalities. Current Boston broadcaster and former Celtics player Brian Scalabrine was there to witness it all, frequently drawing on his time playing with Boston in that era for fodder in his media appearances.

On a recent guest spot on the “Dan LeBatard” show, White Mamba (as Scal is sometimes called) opened up about his craziest teammates from the Banner 17 crew, and the USC alum did not disappoint. Not only did he have a list in mind, but he also had two — one for “good” crazy, the other for “bad” crazy.

With names like Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Scott Pollard and Glen Davis in the mix, you don’t want to miss his response.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hu_vC_2efxU

Here it is in full in the clip embedded above; take a look at it to get both good and bad crazy lists.

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On this day: Bill Russell, Scot Pollard born; Bob McAdoo trade

On this day in Celtics history, iconic big man Bill Russell was born, as was center Scott Pollard on a day the team traded for Bob McAdoo.

On this day in Boston Celtics history in 1934 in West Monroe, Louisiana, one of the game’s all-time greats was born: legendary Celtics Hall of Fame big man William “Bill” Fenton Russell.

Widely considered one of the greatest frontcourt players to ever play the game, Russell was renowned for his unearthly defensive skills and timing, especially rebounding and shot-blocking. To this day, he is still in second place for both total rebounds and rebounds per game in the NBA with 21,620, and along with Wilt Chamberlain, is one of two players to ever have over 50 rebounds in a game.

He’s also one of only seven players to win Olympic Gold, an NCAA championship.

Scot Pollard and fellow Boston Celtics alum Kevin Garnett reportedly nearly fought on the 2008 title team

Given the very large personalities of both men on the Banner 17 squad, we are not too surprised to hear the Survivor alumnus tell us about the kerfuffle in a recent interview.

We don’t want to think about who might win in a fight between Boston Celtics 2008 title team member Scot Pollard and Kevin Garnett, but, per Pollard, he and The Big Ticket nearly came to blows when they were teammates on the Celtics.

Given the very large personalities of both men on the Banner 17 squad, we are not to surprised to hear the Survivor alumnus tell us about the kerfuffle in a recent interview with the folks at Heavy on their “Celtics Collective” podcast. Then again, given their also-very large bodies, it’s probably for the best of the entire franchise that pitched disagreement did not turn into something worse.

To hear the full details of the narrowly avoided dust-up between Pollard and KG in the run-up to the title, take a look at the clip embedded below.

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‘We called him Bambi,’ says Scot Pollard of fellow Boston Celtics alum Paul Pierce’s time at Kansas

Pierce was especially thin in his NCAA days, it seems.

Many years before they linked up again on the Boston Celtics in pursuit of Banner 17, ex-Boston big man Scot Pollard and Hall of Fame wing Paul Pierce were teammates on the roster of the Kansas Jayhawks.

And while we think of The Truth today as a stone cold killer with broad shoulders and an unstoppable will to get to the basket, in those days the Californian forward could have benefited from a little more muscle on his frame according to Pollard.

“We called him ‘Bambi’ because he was still so skinny and he was all elbows and knees,” said the 2008 Celtics champion center.

Check out the clip embedded below to hear what Pollard had to share about their time together playing for Kansas long before Pierce was ever a Celtic.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PEZvHTJBjw4

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Former Boston Celtic Scot Pollard on how he almost passed on joining the 2008 title team

You might know him for his time on Survivor, but Pollard nearly voted himself off of the Banner 17 island.

Many of you know him more for his role on “Survivor” than his contributions to the Boston Celtics‘ 2008 title team that hung Banner 17, but Scot Pollard was part of it even if he did not get on the court during the postseason run it took to win it.

The journeyman center actually needed a little persuading to sign with the Celtics according to his recent interview with the folks over at the Heavy YouTube channel. “Boston calls and says ‘Hey, come help us win a championship;'” related Pollard. “I said, ‘Nah, I’m good.'”

To hear the rest of Pollard’s story, take a look at the clip embedded below to hear how the big man better known by many for his island exploits on reality TV today ended up winning a ring with the Celtics.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7BGozMUCU9I

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Former Celtic Scott Pollard shares Disney bubble dirt in new interview

2008 Boston Celtics champion center Scott Pollard shared some of the wild stories he’d heard about Disney bubble life in a recent interview.

You might not remember Boston Celtics champion center Scott Pollard from the team’s 2008 postseason run to win Banner 17, but that’s mostly because he didn’t actually play very much in his sole season as a Celtic, appearing in no playoff games that playoffs.

But you might recognize him from the popular reality TV show “Survivor,” or at any of the several stops of his 11-season career before he arrived in Boston.

Speaking with Celtics Blog podcast host Adam Taylor, Pollard revealed he’d been entrusted with some juicy gossip on the goings-on of various unnamed players at the Disney restart ‘bubble’.

“There were some things that didn’t get made public but really 100% happened and they’re pretty wild stories,” revealed the former Celtic to Taylor (via Heavy.com’s Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson).

“This is a story [that] involved a rental of a house on the golf course and supposedly some were sneaking out to that house they rented to go hang out and have a good time. Another story, is one team particularly hired a new massage therapist, that may, or may not have, been a legitimate massage therapist.”

We’re not sure exactly what Pollard was implying there, but even in the best-case scenario it represented a potentially serious breach of restart protocol.

That NBA players found ways to bend the rules to their advantage in the so-called bubble probably shouldn’t surprise, given at least one player — the Houston Rockets’ Danuel House — was caught doing so.

That none of the shenanigans saw the light of day in the press during the bubble — or worse, resulted in a COVID-19 infection or breakout — probably ought to surprise us.

To hear more tales from the bubble via Pollard, check out the pod linked here.

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