Anybody else play Mike Tyson's Punchout? Looks like Little Mac got knocked out.

Julian Benbow, Boston Globe – “Had it happened in the Celtics locker room, the dispute between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton would have never made it to the point where guns had to be drawn. Bryan Doo, the Celtics strength and conditioning coach, pretty much made sure of that a year ago. His solution was boxing gloves. ‘If anybody has any differences on this team,’ Ray Allen recalled Doo saying, ‘we’re going to go in the weight room and we’re going to settle it.’ He had head gear for each player as well. ‘For a couple days we were warning, like, ‘OK, I challenge you.’ And you said, ‘OK, let’s take it in the weight room and duke it out,’ ‘ Allen said. ‘We were playing, having a good time with it.’”

Rich Levine, CSNNE – “The offense was just off. They missed from the inside, the outside, on fast breaks, and out of the half court set. It didn’t matter. The ball wouldn’t go in. And as the quarter went on things only heated up slightly. Boston finished the first shooting at only a 38 percent clip (10-26). An ugly number for a one of the league’s most efficient shooting teams. In the past, whether it was against the Nets, the Grizzlies, or any of the lackluster performances the C’s have previously had at the Garden this season, this would have spelled disaster. It would have breathed life into their inferior opponent. They would have given the Kings confidence, while ruining their own. It would have set the stage for another unnecessary battle. But tonight, it didn’t matter. Tonight, despite all their offensive issues, the Celtics went into the break with a 15-point lead. They were in complete control. They almost already had the Kings buried. Why? Because tonight, the C’s brought back that old school defensive energy and intensity, the likes of which used to make it nearly impossible for a team to come in and achieve any level of success at the Garden.”

Julian Benbow, Boston Globe – “‘Our entire bench said it,’ Rondo said. ‘I have the record for most steals and the most gambles in one season.’ ‘One of the guys said, ‘Now you can go back to being solid,’ ‘ said Celtics coach Doc Rivers. Rondo said with a grin he wasn’t aware of the gambles. ‘We were,’ Garnett said. ‘I don’t know if we keep that stat,’ Rondo said. ‘We keep it,’ Garnett said. ‘Don’t worry about it.’ It’s an urge he admits he fights. Every so often you can see him let his man go by, then swipe at the ball, trying to poke it loose. But when he’s at his best defensively, which he was for most of last night’s win, Rondo is a menace, affecting the game without having to shoot or score.”

Gary Washburn, Boston Celtics – “‘He’s grown up before everybody’s eyes,’ Garnett said. ‘He’s grown up into a prolific scorer, a player who can affect the game in many ways. When he’s frustrated I try to relay that message to him. I try to repeat it in his head so at some point he understands. I love him because he’s a student of the game. He’s hard-headed like all of us but at the same time he wants it more than any other player and that’s what you want. You want your point guard setting the tone every night. You want your point guard leading us. It’s great to watch because I’ve seen him when he was quiet, hiding in the corner, didn’t say two words. Sometimes we sort of miss that.’”

Mark Murphy, Boston Herald – “Rivers angrily replaced Glen Davis with Brian Scalabrine in the third quarter after the former committed a triple fault – a turnover, followed by a foul, followed by a technical foul. Davis didn’t play another minute. ‘You don’t get a tech in that situation,’ said Rivers. ‘When you’re up 18 points and your team’s struggling, you’re not (Kevin) Garnett or one of those guys. You don’t get the liberty, anyway, to talk to the officials. ‘And he wasn’t playing well, anyway, at that point. He was playing like the score, and I just told him he’s not at that point in his life where he can turn it on and off. We need him to be an every possession player, and I didn’t think he was that tonight.’”

A. Sherrod Blakely, CSNNE – “This is what can happen when you have a deep team full of players starving to play more minutes. If you slump, you sit. That’s essentially what Marquis Daniels is going through these days. And it’s not a coincidence that some of his usual minutes, are now being given to Tony Allen who continues to play solid basketball. In Friday’s 94-86 win over Sacramento, Allen had six points and four rebounds in about 12 minutes. Daniels had two points in about six minutes of action. Even more telling was that Allen saw action near the end of the first quarter, while Daniels’ first minutes didn’t come about until the Celtics were ahead by 24 points in the third quarter.”

Chris Forsberg, ESPNBoston – “Before the Celtics could even secure the Atlantic Division title with a win over Sacramento, Toronto handed them the division crown with a loss Friday night to the Nuggets. But. two days after ensuring themselves a postseason berth, the champagne remained on ice in Boston. ‘I didn’t know that,’ Rivers said of the division title. ‘So, I guess that’s good. It’s obviously not what we’re trying to do. I mean, it’s nice — 20 years from now, when I’m bragging to my grandkids and lying. Obviously, when you have a team with your goals so high, you don’t really focus on it.’ Celtics forward Kevin Garnett echoed Rivers’ sentiments: ‘I wasn’t even aware of that. I don’t think that anybody in the locker room said anything like that. I think tonight we were more appreciative of [Rajon] Rondo, and his accomplishments. Any time you get any kind of record in this organization on a team like what we have, it’s a huge thing. We are just of appreciative of being in the moment, being here, being a part of it. It is a very special moment, and no one even talked about the division title tonight. Tonight was Rondo’s night.’”

Mark Murphy, Boston Herald – “A blossoming laugher thus ended with one of coach Doc Rivers’ most dreaded actions – sending his starters back in. But he was nearly stubborn enough – and ticked off enough – to say the hell with it. ‘I thought we stopped playing,’ Rivers said. ‘It was really difficult for me to put the starters back in, but I did. We had the ball three or four times with a chance to get (the lead) to 30, but we didn’t because of the way we started playing. It looked like it was the bench’s fault, but it really wasn’t. But I told them I’m not going to let them cloud what we did for two-and-a-half quarters. That was terrific basketball. We were getting stops. The ball was moving. So overall when I watch the film, I’ll watch that.’”

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