Delonte West

The Celtics are bring­ing trou­bled guard Delonte West back to Boston.

Celtics pres­i­dent Danny Ainge con­firmed on Wednes­day that the team will re-sign West, who started his career in Boston.

West spent three sea­sons with the Celtics before being dealt to Seat­tle in the draft-day trade that paired Ray Allen with Paul Pierce.

He will be inel­i­gi­ble for the first 10 games of the sea­son after being sus­pended by the league fol­low­ing a guilty plea on weapons charges in the state of Maryland.

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Rudy Fer­nan­dez

The Celtics have a ros­ter spot open and are cur­rently look­ing for a shooter, mean­ing Rudy Fer­nan­dez could be an option.

“We’re just con­tin­u­ing to explore avail­able play­ers and trade pos­si­bil­i­ties and see what sort of options are there,” said Danny Ainge. “There are some trade dis­cus­sions that we’re hav­ing. I don’t know the like­li­hood of those happening.”

Another option for the Celtics could be free agent vet­eran Larry Hughes.

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Kwame Brown

The Celtics have sched­uled a meet­ing with free-agent Kwame Brown for Wednes­day in Orlando.

“We’re check­ing out a lot of pos­si­bil­i­ties — it’s still very early in the process,” Danny Ainge said.

Boston is expected to look at a num­ber of big men, includ­ing Shaquille O’Neal.

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Boston Celtics

If Danny Ainge built a team built for a short run, the 2010 NBA Finals may be the end of it for prin­ci­pals Ray Allen, Kevin Gar­nett and Paul Pierce.

They are not get­ting any younger nor are they get­ting any better.

None of that should detract from what the Celtics have accom­plished this spring — and what they may very well accom­plish still — but it does place addi­tional urgency on these finals for a team that bases its suc­cess solely on championships.

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Nate Robin­son

The Boston Celtics announced today that the club has acquired guard Nate Robin­son and for­ward Mar­cus Landry from the New York Knicks in exchange for guards Eddie House, J.R. Gid­dens and for­ward Bill Walker.

“Nate is one of the great ath­letes in the league and he brings a dynamic scorer to our team,” said Danny Ainge, Celtics Pres­i­dent of Bas­ket­ball Operations.

“We have been seek­ing a sec­ond ball han­dler capa­ble of pen­e­trat­ing the defense and we believe that he pro­vides that. We love Nate’s abil­ity to pres­sure the ball defen­sively and we think he can add to our defense as well as our offense.”

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Antawn Jami­son

The Boston Celtics are dis­cussing a deal with the Wash­ing­ton Wiz­ards for for­wards Antawn Jami­son and Caron But­ler, league sources told Yahoo! Sports on Friday.

The pro­posed deal would send the expir­ing con­tracts of Ray Allen, Brian Scal­abrine and J.R. Gid­dens to the Wizards.

An actual trade is not yet immi­nent, but it rep­re­sents the bold think­ing of Danny Ainge ahead of the dead­line. The teams are expected to con­tinue dis­cussing the deal on Fri­day and through­out All-Star weekend.

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Kevin Mar­tin

Danny Ainge has con­tin­ued his attempts to trade Ray Allen, accord­ing to sources.

His most recent inquiry has involved the Kings, as he is inter­ested in acquir­ing Kevin Mar­tin in return.

Sacra­mento might be more inclined to deal Mar­tin if a third team is involved.

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Boston Celtics Dancers

The Boston Celtics chose to waive Lester Hud­son rather than guar­an­tee his con­tract for the rest of the season.

So, as of Wednes­day evening, the team has a ros­ter spot open and it would like to fill it before the post­sea­son gets underway.

Pres­i­dent of bas­ket­ball oper­a­tions Danny Ainge tried to trade Hud­son but could not find a taker.

Ainge points out that there are a lot of expir­ing con­tracts this year, which could help more trades hap­pen as it gets closer to the dead­line. And some, such as Marko Jaric and Rafer Alston, have already been bought out so those play­ers could move to other teams.

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Rasheed Wal­lace

Bad news for the NBA…

Rasheed Wal­lace is get­ting the Tim Don­aghy book.

“I want to check it out and see what’s there,” Wal­lace said last night.

GM Danny Ainge passed on word to Wal­lace from the NBA that he should watch his crit­i­cal state­ments, but the for­ward will not bow to the request.

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Allen Iver­son

Just to be clear on this, Allen Iver­son is not walk­ing through that door.

But the pos­si­bil­ity is some­thing the Celtics have con­sid­ered — and could revisit.

Danny Ainge always has been a fan of Iver­son, and he tried very hard to get him here in the sum­mer of 2006 and the sea­son that followed.

A num­ber of times, the Celtics pres­i­dent of bas­ket­ball oper­a­tions was in talks with the 76ers before Iver­son was shipped to Denver.

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