By Dan Massar, YawkeyTalkies Correspondent
You sign Rasheed Wallace.  Ok, that’s a good move!
You sign Big Baby Davis.  Ok, avoided losing a valuable piece.
You bring in Marquis Daniels.  Ok, smart pick-up.
But what About KG?  If the “Big Ticket” doesn’t come back at close to full strength off of his knee injury will any of those moves matter?
The answer is no, they won’t matter at all!  The Patriots couldn’t win another Super Bowl without Brady and the Celtics need Kevin Garnett to be the beast that he was in 07-08 in order to recapture the NBA’s top prize.  The Celtics can’t win it all without Garnett leading the way.  Case closed. 
Example A is last season’s playoffs.  Sure, the Celts played a thrilling seven game series with the upstart Chicago Bulls.  It was wildly entertaining. But if Garnett had been healthy it may have not gone longer then five games, certainly not seven. 
Example B is the Magic series.  The Celtics were lucky to get that series to seven games.  They were outplayed in most of the games.  A miracle comeback in game five and a Big Baby buzzer-beater kept the series from being an embarrassment for the defending champs. 
Garnett was the defensive soul for the 08 title team.  He was a man on a mission under [...]

 
By: Evan McDonald, YawkeyTalkies correspondent
Hey, did you hear about the latest addition to the Boston Celtics?
Swingman, good height, decent on-ball defender, quality slasher, played for the Indiana Pacers last season? His name is Marquis Daniels.
What, you thought the Celtics acquired him over a month ago? Well, don’t feel bad. So did the rest of the basketball universe.
Daniels finally agreed to sign with Boston for the Celtics’ $1.99 million biannual exception on Sept. 1, 2009. However, back on July 17, reports surfaced that Daniels would be a member of the Celtics come the regular season.
So what took so long? Well, the general picture is that the Pacers told Daniels they would not be picking up his option for next season, and would allow him to become a free agent. When Daniels chose to come to Boston, both the Celtics and Pacers wanted to work out a sign-and-trade deal for salary cap purposes. Ultimately, though, no deal could be reached and Daniels signed with Boston as a free agent last week.
Now that we’ve got that all cleared up, let’s focus on what we fans really care about: What does the addition of Daniels mean to the Celtics’ title chances?
First, we need to [...]