Celtics, G Robinson agree on new deal (AP)

BOSTON (AP)?The Shrek and Donkey show is returning to Boston for another
performance.
The Celtics have agreed in principle with guard Nate Robinson(notes) on a new
contract, a team official told The Associated Press on Friday. The deal reunites
the 5-foot-9 guard with Glen ?Big Baby? Davis on a Boston bench that provided
an important contribution during last year?s run to the NBA finals.


A Celtics spokesman declined to comment, but the official confirmed the
agreement to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the contract was not
yet signed. The Boston Herald reported that Robinson will get $4 million a year
for two seasons.
Robinson wrote on his Twitter page Friday that he was going back to the
Celtics.
Robinson was acquired at the trade deadline but had fallen out of the
rotation by the end of the regular season. He re-emerged in the playoffs to help
Boston clinch the Eastern Conference finals and then, with Davis, led the second
unit that helped the Celtics pull away from the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 4 of
the finals.
?We?re like Shrek and Donkey,? Robinson said afterward. ?You can?t
separate us.?
The nicknames stuck, and now Robinson has, too.
The only three-time winner of the NBA?s slam dunk contest, the diminutive
Robinson fell out of favor with the New York Knicks during their ill-fated
efforts to purge salary and land LeBron James(notes) as a free agent. He was traded to
the Celtics in February, but couldn?t seem to find much of a role in Boston,
either.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers insisted that Robinson, who had never appeared in
the postseason in his career, would find a niche, saying, ?He?s going to win us
a playoff game.?
That proved prophetic when Robinson came off the bench to score 13
second-quarter points in the sixth and final game of the conference finals
against Orlando. In Game 4 of the finals, Robinson pitched in with 12 points in
17 minutes as the bench turned a two-point deficit into an 11-point lead.










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