Big Baby eats two Kings and helps Celts stay unbeaten at home

A sign that this Celtics team is good: you already expect wins most nights they play. Boston improved to 18-2 (best record in the NBA) last night with a 90-78 win over the Sacramento Kings at the Garden. The Celts also saw their home record go to 11-0.

Paul Pierce led the way with a game-high 26 points, six boards, four assists and two steals. Kendrick Perkins was out because he dropped his bed on his toe the other day. Uh OK. Anyways, in his place rookie Glen Davis got his first NBA start and didn't disappoint as he notched 16 points (including 10 of 10 from the free throw line) and nine rebounds. Ray Allen is still struggling to find his shot but he added 15 points, including two key back-to-back threes in the third when the Celts started to put the Kings away. Kevin Garnett had a very quiet night with 11 points and six rebounds while James Posey and Eddie House both scored eight.

The Kings are nowhere near the halcyon days of C-Webb, Bibby, Christie and Vlade. Their top scorer is Kevin Martin but he's currently out with a groin problem. Bibby is also out with an ankle injury. In their place, Ron Artest is the leader which quite obviously is never a winning formula (in either basketball or the music industry).

Ron Ron and point guard Beno Udrih led the Kings with 16 points each. Brad Miller added 14 points and seven boards.

The Celts jumped out a 25-17 lead after the first quarter and all things pointed to a blowout. The Kings though played well in the second quarter and actually led the C's by one (45-44) going into the half.

The teams reverted back to form in the second half as the assorted bums on the Kings (Mikki Moore, Francisco Garcia, John Salmons) started to brick shots while the Celts played good defense and made their shots.

The story of the game was the free throw line. The C's made a ridiculous 30-32 at the line to the Kings meager 11-12 total. Sacramento was content to take jumpers and the Celtics kept driving to the hole. It wasn't a classic game by any means but Boston did enough to overcome a sluggish start and a bad overall shooting night (39.1% as a team).

Boston looks to stay hot as they host the Bucks tomorrow night. Outside of Michael Redd there is nobody on the Bucks that scares you in the least bit.