If it wasn't for Sebastian Telfair, there wouldn't have been much out there on the Celtics today. CBS Sportsline presents two sides of the Telfair situation. One presents the side of a hard working kid who still deserves a chance. The other tells us not to be fooled by him again. I am kind of between the two. I still believe that Telfair has the potential to be a good player but he has to deal with a lot of issues both on and off the court in order to get there.

Hoopsworld also has a piece on Telfair, giving us different side of him. It discusses him as a proud father and showing us that he never got down on himself or his team in spite of his diminishing playing time. The Columbian discusses the Telfair trade also from the Portland point of view.

Boston was high on Telfair at the time. But by mid-season the Celtics discovered they were on the bad end of a one-sided deal. Telfair played 15 or fewer minutes in 27 games after getting benched in late December and didn’t see action in four.

The public incident draws attention away from the real questions: Why Boston gave up so much last summer for a player it’s now shooing away, and why Telfair — long sold as a kid with the potential for greatness — is seeing his career approach a crisis point.

When they weren't busy planting trees or digging in the dirt, Powe and West certainly enjoyed their time with the students. While at first the students were asking the Celtics for autographs on the back of their t-shirts, the guys turned the tables on the students and had them sign their shirts as well. They were also telling Powe that they could dunk on him and chased West around the garden with a worm they'd dug up.

One student asked West, joking, "How come you're not afraid of Shaq but you're afraid of a worm?"

West took the ribbing in stride, and was happy he got the chance to be a positive influence for inner-city students as part of the event.

"They're at a vulnerable age, at the stage where you can easily be lead in the wrong direction, or pulled along in the right direction. For these students, with this program between Southwest and the Boston Celtics, that's the movement we're trying to get here in Boston, before our youth go wrong. That's what we're trying to do today."