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7:30 pm EST Tue Feb 23, 2010

With Paul Pierce and Tracy McGrady both battling injuries, Tuesday’s matchup between the Boston Celtics and visiting New York Knicks may be without two of its biggest names. Nate Robinson probably won’t object to having more of the spotlight. The diminutive new Celtic is expected to make his debut with Boston against the team that traded him away last week and the coach that benched him for an extended stretch earlier this season. Robinson averaged 17.2 points for New York last season, and the 5-foot-9 guard has won many fans by capturing three slam dunk championships.

Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni, though, left him on the bench for 14 straight games in December, and the team finally dealt him to Boston along with Marcus Landry before Thursday’s trade deadline, getting Eddie House, J.R. Giddens and Bill Walker —along with salary cap space this summer—in return. An illness has delayed his debut, but Robinson may have preferred to make it a more dramatic one. D’Antoni explained the benching Jan. 1 by saying that the Knicks—currently losers of seven straight—were “trying to get focused on winning.” Victories are certainly what the Celtics have in mind, and they’ll be tougher to get if Pierce is out.