Ready for some Sammy

6 PM - that’s when Cassell should clear waivers and sign soonafter with the Celtics - maybe even in time to get him in town for the matchup with Detroit on Wednesday…Here’s a Globe recap of the affair. Interesting (and good) to see Rondo’s not holding any grudges for the slap he got from Cassell earlier in the year that got Sam kicked out of the game. What’s funny on youtube - the top video you get when you search for Cassell is a huge mistake in the ‘06 playoffs - the popular 8 second violation!

The Atlanta game last night just didn’t do it for me - maybe it was the 7 basketball games I had already watched that weekend with the crowd intensity of March (as Gus Johnson realized in the last seconds of the Georgetown/Marquette game “it’s the first day of March!”) or maybe it was that awkward 6 PM start time or maybe that the Celtics seemingly had control for most of the game but just couldn’t pull away…For me, March is definitely college hoops time - I just wish I could root for my teams (Syracuse, Holy Cross) once it started instead of hoping for some kind of crazy run just to make it.