Busy day in the Bean with marathons, parades, and playoff baseball. There’s some basketball mixed in, too, as the Celtics play host to the Nets in a few minutes.

The Cs were last seen embarrassing the Knicks here, 96-82, Friday night.

All was steady on the Kevin Garnett front. He scored 10-points and grabbed eight rebounds, but he said one of his focuses was communicating with Rajon Rondo and Paul Pierce. He got tangled up with Jared Jeffries, getting kicked in the calf and walking it off. In all, Garnett played 21 minutes and worked closer to the goal of playing a complete quarter.

“I don’t think anybody’s in 48 minute shape,” Garnett said. “I don’t know what my minutes are going to be, but I think for the meantime, the minutes that Doc is playing me, I think I’m playing very, very energetic. I think I’m – like always – all out, foot on the throttle. Nothing unusual.”

For your reading pleasure this morning, here are a few links:

There’s a two-fer from the Globe’s own Gary Washburn. He looks at Celtics fans’ cult hero Brian Scalabrine, who among other things is juggling duties between small forward and power forward in the preseason, and he also peeks in on the Nets’ recent facelift.

The Wall Street Journal also chimes in on the Nets, quickly flashing through the list of the Nets’ odd owners, which will soon include Russian billionaire/playboy Mikhail Prokhorov

Eddie House's BFF Rafer Alston is a Net now, and he's enjoying it so far.

Greg Payne over at Celticsblog asks the question everyone used to ask about Kevin Garnet before he injured his knee: Why doesn’t he play inside more. He throws Rasheed Wallace in there for good measure, with Wallace throwing up nine three-pointers against the Knicks.

And Zach Lowe at Celticshub, has some evidence that the 2008 Celtics were the second-stingiest team of the post-1980 era.

For your viewing pleasure, here’s a clip from the 2002 Eastern Conference Finals against the Nets, when Paul Pierce’s 19 fourth-quarter points dug the Celtics out of a 21-point hole and got then-head coach Jim O’Brien all poetic after the comeback win. "It was purgatory, it might have been closer to Hell for three quarters, but that last one was Eden. Damn, that was great," O'Brien said.