"No surprises, other than the severity of the injury," said Garnett. "I didn't know it was that bad."

Garnett was asked to clarify.

"It was just what we thought it was, but it was more than that," said Garnett. "Put it like this: a bone spur the size of this tape recorder ended up being the size of this microphone...It's pretty severe, but the best thing about it is I got it out of the way. I'm almost 100 percent going forward. The best thing about it is I'm playing without any pain, which is something I haven't had in quite some time.

At Celtics Media Day today in Waltham, I got a chance to talk exclusively with Celtics forward Kevin Garnett. KG told me that "the knee still gets sore" and that he is "working his way back into it". He has been playing 5 on 5 with guys the last week or so.

"It felt good [to scrimmage with Garnett last week]," said Perkins. "We were on the same team. Just us hitting each other with passes for dunks and stuff like that felt good. Me and Kevin have a great relationship."

On Wallace, Perkins said, "It was cool. I like playing with Rasheed. Obviously he's a great passer. We all know he can shoot. He's got great post moves. He's a great defender. But really I just wanted to see how he was outside of basketball, and he's a great guy in the locker room. Personality is great and everything."

Perkins said Wallace's personality was different than he expected.

"I don't know," said Perkins. "I was waiting to see. He's kind of scary.

Perkins said he lost 15 pounds to get to 270 pounds. It showed, as Perkins looked solid. He could have had a biggest loser competition with fellow big man Glen Davis who embarked on a mixed martial arts training program this summer to get in better shape. Davis said he dropped 25-30 pounds, but more importantly said he added muscle in the process.

"It was kind of a no-brainer, once I found out this was an option," said Daniels. "I wanted to come here and just be a part of it."
"I'm just whatever for whenever my number's called, whether that's at the point guard, the two, or the three," said Daniels, who didn't say whether or not he was promised a certain amount of minutes. "I just like being on the floor."

"I don't really think about that (contract), I just try to focus on camp. If it's going to happen it's going to happen. If not, I'll play it out. I want to be wherever I'm wanted the next 10 years; if Danny wants me, I'll be here the next 10 years. I have sat down with Danny, but we didn't speak about contract, we talked about expectations for the season. I try to focus on -- trying to get a ring, got to get one this year. I don't think it will be on my mind, I won't alow it to affect me when I play. But, of course, everyone wants security and it would be great if I could sign now.

Power forward Michael Sweetney has been invited to camp, but is not on the preseason roster. Lester Hudson is after Danny Ainge said he has been officially signed.

Allen, entering his 6th season with Boston, had arthroscopic surgery on June 3rd with a torn tendon in his ankle. His status for the preseason is questionable. Allen only appeared in 42 games for the Celtics in the 2008/09 season.