Boston Celtics Articles - Page 158

It’s no secret that the Milwaukee Bucks have been missing the services of All-Star swingman Khris Middleton. They did escape with a 110-107 win against the Boston Celtics in Game 5 to take a 3-2 series advantage, but there’s no denying that they would love to get Middleton back as soon as possible. The good […]

The Boston Celtics suffered an excruciating loss at the hands of the defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference Semifinal battle Wednesday night. The Celtics led by 14 points with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter and by six with under two minutes left. Yet, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jrue […]

The Boston Celtics are looking to avoid elimination on Friday when they head to Milwaukee for Game 6 against the Bucks. Down 3-2, the Celtics need to pick up a road win, but may be without a key contributor for the game. According to Chris Forsberg, the Celtics have listed Robert Williams as questionable for […]

Larry Bird’s legacy with the Boston Celtics will always be felt within the NBA. The league has now commemorated his legendary rivalry with Magic Johnson and the Boston Celtics with new trophies that reward playoff excellence. The NBA is instituting Conference Finals MVP Awards, with the East’s being named after Bird and the West’s being […]

It’s officially do-or-die time for the Boston Celtics. After blowing a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter in Game 5, the Milwaukee Bucks came up with clutch plays down the stretch to take the 3-2 series advantage from Jayson Tatum and the Celtics. They are now in a fight for their lives in the NBA […]

The Milwaukee Bucks are set to host the Boston Celtics in Game 6 of their Eastern Conference Semifinals series. Momentum is on their side after a stunning comeback win in Game 5, the Bucks now leading the series 3-2 with a chance to close out the series at home Friday night. The Bucks vs Celtics […]

The Boston Celtics held a 93-79 lead over the Milwaukee Bucks after a Payton Pritchard bucket with 10:16 remaining in Wednesday’s Game 5. After a big comeback win on the road in Game 4, it looked like the Celtics were about to cruise their way to a 3-2 series lead to sit on the doorstep […]

The Milwaukee Bucks proved once again why they are the defending NBA champions. They came out victorious over the Boston Celtics in their hard-fought Game 5 battle Wednesday night. While it was a team effort, things could have gone the opposite way if it wasn’t for Jrue Holiday’s late-game heroics on defense. With less than […]

Jrue Holiday put the exclamation point on Wednesday night’s heavyweight bout between the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics. The Bucks point guard put the clamps on newly minted Defensive Player of the Year Marcus Smart on two crucial defensive possessions for Milwaukee: Jrue Holiday comes up with BACK-TO-BACK stops to close out GAME 4 😤 […]

The Milwaukee Bucks stunned the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference Semifinal series. Milwaukee erased a 13-point deficit in the final nine minutes, and were down six with just over two left. Yet, some late-game heroics from the Bucks and some mental errors from the Celtics led to the comeback victory. Apparently, […]

The Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics are playing one of the more entertaining playoff series in a while. On Wednesday night, the series might have finally tipped heavily in favor of the Bucks. Milwaukee managed to erase a 13-point deficit in the final nine minutes and change to defeat the Celtics, 110-107 in Boston. The […]

The Milwaukee Bucks are now in the driver’s seat with a commanding 3-2 lead over the Boston Celtics. But Giannis Antetokounmpo knows it’s far from over. Giannis had a succinct four-word message during the postgame presser after the Bucks win: “The job’s not done,” said the Bucks star, per Lily Zhao of FOX6. He took […]

The first two months of the season, the Boston Celtics struggled to hold onto leads. They appeared to rectify that as the season progressed, helping them earn the no. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference. Well, that same old issue reared its head again in Game 5 Wednesday. The Celtics held a 13-point lead a […]

There were a lot of things that went wrong for the Boston Celtics during the closing seconds of their Game 5 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. Perhaps, however, nothing was more crucial than the miscommunication between Jayson Tatum and the rest of the team near the end that doomed them. During the play when Marcus […]

Game 5 between the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks went down the wire. In the end, it was Giannis Antetokounmpo and Co. who escaped with a 110-107 win in what was an asbolute thriller. Celtics head coach Ime Udoka was not at all pleased with how his team let the Bucks come from behind […]

Jrue Holiday just flexed his defensive chops of the reigning Defensive Player of the Year. The Milwaukee Bucks point guard made the game-sealing plays to end the game as they escape with the Game 5 win on the road. First, Jrue Holiday completely ate up Marcus Smart’s go-ahead basket attempt on the baseline. Not only […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo had to give his blood, sweat, and tears for the Milwaukee Bucks as they tried to steal Game 5 away from the Boston Celtics on their own home floor. Quite literally. Giannis had blood dripping from his right eyebrow late in the game following an inadvertent elbow from Bucks teammate Pat Connaughton: Giannis […]

The Milwaukee Bucks face one of the toughest tests of their season on Thursday as they try to win Game 5 on the Celtics’ home floor. Charles Barkley shared his thoughts on the matchup during TNT’s pre-game broadcast and the Hall of Famer has just slapped Giannis Antetokounmpo and Co. with some harsh reality. According […]

The Boston Celtics are tied 2-2 in their Eastern Conference Semifinals series against the Milwaukee Bucks. After going 1-1 at home and 1-1 away, the Celtics are back playing host for Game 5. However, they got a rough injury update less than two hours before tip-off. According to Ime Udoka, Robert Williams is out for […]

The Celtics return to Boston to host the Bucks for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals! It’s time to continue our NBA odds series with a Bucks-Celtics prediction and pick.   This is an incredible series to watch as both teams are battling in the second round. The Bucks stole home-court advantage from the […]

The Boston Celtics have gone toe-to-toe with the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks through the first four games of this series. It has been an extremely tight series with each team stealing a game on their opponent’s home court. The series has lived up to the hype so far and is considered to be the best […]

Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets are no longer in postseason contention, which has granted the mercurial point guard some extra free time. The Nets star recently decided to use some of that time to play some video games and also stream his session live to fans on Twitch. It did not turn out as […]

The Eastern Conference Semifinal matchup between the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks has lived up to the hype thus far. The series is currently split at two wins apiece with each team able to steal a game on their opponent’s home court. The matchup is loaded with storylines and has been an impressive defensive battle […]

Al Horford played like a man possessed on Monday night in the Boston Celtics’s 116-108 win over the Milwaukee Bucks. While he obviously wants to win through the competitive nature in all professional athletes, he has some extra motivation to advance further into the postseason compared to the rest of his teammates. Horford can guarantee […]

The Boston Celtics earned one of the most important impressive victories of the playoffs without Robert Williams III. As the league’s most competitive second-round series shifts to Boston for a best-of-three between the Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks, there’s a chance Ime Udoka’s team will be back at full strength. The Celtics revealed their official injury […]

The Milwaukee Bucks blew a third quarter lead in Game 4 on Monday to lose 116-108 as the series is now tied 2-2. It was certainly not an ideal finish to a game where the Bucks struggled to get stops defensively down the stretch, with Al Horford and Jayson Tatum torching them in the final […]

The Boston Celtics pulled off an impressive turnaround against the Milwaukee Bucks on their own home floor in Game 4. Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks held an 11-point lead late in the third quarter and entered the fourth up seven points. But what happened next will resonate with Celtics fans for quite some time, particularly […]

The Boston Celtics made an impressive comeback in Game 4 against the Milwaukee Bucks in what was a complete team effort. But if there’s one player to highlight for going above and beyond what was needed of him, it was Al Horford. The Celtics veteran matched Jayson Tatum with a team-high 30 points. 16 of […]

We all witnessed a vintage performance from Al Horford on Monday night as he turned back the clock to bring out the All-Star form he once had during his prime. Jayson Tatum was all for it as he heaped praise on his Boston Celtics teammate following their 116-108 Game 4 win over Giannis Antetokounmpo and […]

Much like the rest of us, ESPN’s Stephen A Smith had quite an animated reaction to Al Horford throwing the hammer down on Giannis Antetokounmpo during Monday’s Game 4 clash between the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks. It sounds like Stephen A enjoyed the action, but what he’s taken exception to is the referees […]

Things got testy on Monday night as the Boston Celtics secured a 116-108 victory over the defending champions Milwaukee Bucks in Game 4 of their second-round series. At one point, Marcus Smart got into it with Giannis Antetokounmpo, and apparently, the Celtics guard got the short end of the stick in this exchange. After their […]

Marcus Smart came up with a huge bounceback performance in Game 4 as the Boston Celtics took down the Milwaukee Bucks, 116-108, to tie this second-round series at 2-2. The newly-crowned Defensive Player of the Year missed Game 2 due to a quad injury, but it looks like this issue has now been put to […]

While the Boston Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 4 to tie their playoffs series at 2-2, Jayson Tatum doesn’t want his teammates to forget that they are facing the reigning NBA champions. Things won’t get any easier for the Celtics in their attempt to take the series lead, and so Tatum and the […]

The Milwaukee Bucks may have lost Game 4 to the Boston Celtics, but Giannis Antetokounmpo is not letting his emotions get the best of him. After getting outshined by Al Horford during Monday’s contest, Antetokounmpo naturally feels terrible. However, it is not letting it distract him from focusing at the task they have now: which […]

One of, if not the top play from Monday’s Game 4 clash between the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks has got to be Al Horford’s monster jam all over Giannis Antetokounmpo. Horford threw it down with force as he put the former back-to-back MVP on an epic poster. After the Celtics’ 116-108 win, Horford […]

Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum made quite the noise on Monday night. Not only did he help power the Beantown Team to victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 4, but he also joined Kobe Bryant and LeBron James in NBA history. Tatum exploded for 30 points in the game, which were more than enough […]

Things got heated on Monday night between the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks. Al Horford turned back the clock for a vintage performance and apparently, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s antics may have had a lot to do with the Celtics veteran’s unexpected explosion on the offensive end. At one point in the game, Giannis threw the […]

The Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks are slated to face off in a pivotal Game 4 NBA Playoff matchup on Monday. Trailing two-games-to-one, the Celtics are in need of a victory to avoid falling into nearly insurmountable deficit against the defending champions. Their quest to do so was dealt a brutal blow after the latest […]

The Boston Celtics will attempt to even up the best-of-seven series as they face the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 4 on Monday. It’s time to continue our NBA odds coverage with a Celtics-Bucks Game 4 prediction and pick. The Bucks edged out the Celtics 103-101 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 42 points, including the go-ahead […]