Cup of Joe. Hey, it's snowing

Good morning! Welcome to CelticsLife's morning column, Cup of Joe. Each morning we feature a few quick-hitters from the previous night; the important stuff, the not so important stuff. The weird, the wild, the in between. A nice, mindless morning column to start your day off with. So pull up a chair, grab your Morning Joe, and find out what happened last night while you were sleeping.

Celtics twitter account cracks a funny

The #BOSnow just keeps piling up! #WinterStormMarcus is almost as fierce as our rook, @smart_MS3

source: Celtics official twitter account

HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! GOOD ONE, CELTICS TWITTER ACCOUNT!

Here's the thing though, gang. Marcus Smart is an awesome rookie who I very much enjoy watching play the game of basketball. Storm Marcus is the latest winter storm that has crippled the city of Boston, and it's on the verge of turning me into Jack from 'The Shining'; I have watched more 'The Chew' than I care to admit, and I haven't had a good cup of coffee in days. SHUT YOUR FREAKING TRAP, OFFICIAL CELTICS TWITTER ACCOUNT


Vintage WTHHT: What the Hell Happened to... Ed Pinckney
authored by tb727

He was a 6'9 power forward who was idolized for orchestrating one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history, when his Villanova Wildcats knocked off the heavily favored Georgetown Hoyas in the 1985 NCAA Championship game (the night Villanova shot an absurd 79% from the field for the game). I'm sure you remember Ed Pinckney.

Ed was drafted with the 10th pick in the 1985 draft by the Suns. After 2 years with Phoenix, he was shipped to the Kings for Eddie Johnson (a trade that really helped out those Suns teams with KJ, Chambers, Hornacek and Majerle). After 1.5 seasons in Sacramento, he made his way to the C's.

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