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Avery Bradley carves out starting role with Celtics

The Celtics' new starting guard has been locking down opponents since first grade

By Amalie Benjamin

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 29, 2012

The first-grade home videos show the same movements, the sliding feet and the hands out and the use of his chest to body-up opponents. They show him running the same way, stealing the ball, being a pest, all the defense that brought Avery Bradley to the University of Texas, then to the Celtics, and into the starting lineup.

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