CBSSports.com’s Ken Berger reports:
Celtics managing partner Wyc Grousbeck didn’t want to talk about the collecting bargaining negotiations he participated in Tuesday. But he had no problem anointing the Celtics as the “hands down” favorites in the Eastern Conference next season.
“I think we should be the favorites in the conference, hands down,” Grousbeck said after emerging from a 3 1-2 hour bargaining session between the NBA owners and the players’ union. “And we’re going to start proving that Oct. 27.”
That’s when the Celtics open the 2009-10 season against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. But it’ll be a very different Celtics team than the one that couldn’t get past Orlando in the conference semifinals. For one, Kevin Garnett will be recovered from the knee injury that caused him to miss the entire playoffs. “Just fine,” Grousbeck said, when asked how KG’s recovery was going.
