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It was a gruesome scene — one that rocked the basketball-loving universe on opening night. Gordon Hayward, who the Boston Celtics had just acquired from the Utah Jazz, went down with the leg injury heard round the world. And just like that, Boston’s season had a new path… All was not lost for Green Nation, […]

The Boston Celtics fell short of making the NBA Finals, but also missed one of their most important cogs at the end of the bench, as Kyrie Irving was absent for this pivotal Game 7 at the TD Garden. Irving caught plenty of flack from the national broadcast crew, but president Danny Ainge spoke on […]

Terry Rozier has had an eyebrow-raising postseason after being given the keys to the starting point guard position, but he picked the absolute-worst time to have a nightmare shooting outing for the Boston Celtics. Yet the gritty Louisville product has no regrets after a ghastly 2-of-14 performance from the floor in a 87-79 loss to […]

Kyrie Irving could soon be locked into a long-term deal with the Boston Celtics, now having dealt with the underlying impediment keeping him from being at full strength. The 26-year-old point guard underwent season-ending knee surgery to remove debris from his 2015 procedure, making it the right time to discuss an extension with the team […]

The Boston Celtics will have some contract situations to address after taking a painful Game 7 loss at home to the Cleveland Cavaliers, falling one game short of making the NBA Finals. Among them, is the impending contract of hybrid guard Marcus Smart, who shined this postseason as one of the defensive catalysts of the […]

Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens was ultimately honest in his assessment of this entire 2017-18 season, hating to fall short after an 87-79 shortcoming in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. “No matter how good of a season you’ve had, if it doesn’t end in a championship, it’s a disappointing ending,” said Stevens, […]

The Boston Celtics fell short on the doorstep of reaching the NBA Finals after losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday night. It was an admirable effort by the Celtics to push the series to the brink, but couldn’t come through on their home floor. Much of this lack […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers may have taken away the opportunity to play in the NBA Finals from the Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum, but he had a signature moment in Sunday’s game that no one can take away from him. With less than seven minutes in the fourth quarter, Tatum drove down the lane and delivered a […]

Despite having home-court advantage in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday night, the Boston Celtics fell short to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have now reached a fourth straight NBA Finals. It was a valiant effort by the Celtics pushing the Cavaliers to the limit. According to Marc D’Amico of Celtics.com, LeBron James […]

Joel Embiid is the master at throwing shade and talking trash, and he was back at it again on Sunday night after the Cleveland Cavaliers eliminated the Boston Celtics from the postseason. Now we’re on the same couch lol — Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) May 28, 2018 This tweet seems to be a follow up of […]

Jayson Tatum caught a body. And it was LeBron James. The Boston Celtics rookie posterized the King during Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Take a look: Tatum pulled this off during a tight fourth quarter with just a few minutes left. A moment he’ll never forget.

The Boston Celtics are taking on the Cleveland Cavaliers right now in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. As everyone knows by now, it’s just one game on the line for a chance to go to the NBA Finals. At the start of this game, however, a couple pieces of confetti apparently fell from […]

On November 6, 2015, the Call of Duty franchise duty released Black Ops III, the 12th Call of Duty game and the third installment in the Black Ops series. Games like COD: Ghosts and COD: Infinite Warfare have been released since then, but a fourth Black Ops game was rumored for a while. It’s been […]

The Boston Celtics are one win away from the NBA Finals and are the favored team going into Game 7, but for Brad Stevens, he knows his team needs to get back to their roots for a chance to win this game. It’s a huge game, and there is a ton on the line, but […]

Boston Celtics guard Terry Rozier is incredibly excited for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference against the Cleveland Cavaliers. How do we know this? He literally said as much. “It’s going to be a lot of fun, first and foremost,” Celtics guard Terry Rozier said, via Sporting News. “It’s going to be a lot of […]

The Boston Celtics have been perfect at home this postseason, and former Phoenix Suns great and current TNT analyst Charles Barkley thinks that will continue on Sunday in Game 7. “It was nice of Ty Lue to play Jordan Clarkson, Larry Nance Jr., and Jeff Green. Guys like that,” Charles Barkley said via 24/7 Sports. […]

It’s always been said that Game 7 has the two most exciting words in sports and the good news for fans of the NBA is they will be getting two of them in the next two days. Both Conference Finals will go the full 7 games for only the second time in NBA history (since […]

The Boston Celtics have struggled on the road this postseason. Against the Cleveland Cavaliers, they really haven’t had a chance in any of the games away from TD Garden. In Game 6, the whole team struggled, but Al Horford, their veteran leader, was nearly invisible for most of the evening.  Horford played 37 minutes and all […]

Good news out of Boston Celtics camp, as sensational rookie talent Jayson Tatum has been given the (mostly) green light in regards to his health. There was a scare that he might have suffered a concussion in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Jay King reported the news on the […]

LeBron James turned in another masterful performance in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals. With his season in jeopardy of ending before June, James delivered 46 points on 17-of-33 shooting including a sizzling 5-of-7 from beyond the arc. Two of those three-pointers came in the final two and a half minutes of the fourth […]

Former Boston Celtics great Paul Pierce made headlines when he publicly complained about the idea that Isaiah Thomas would get a tribute video on this first game in Boston after being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. The reason there was so much hoopla around Pierce’s comments is because Thomas returning to the TD Garden […]

Boston Celtics point guard Terry Rozier has burst onto the NBA scene in a big way. “Scary Terry,” as he’s came to he known, is native of Youngstown, Ohio who attended Shaker Heights High. His collegiate days were spent at the University of Louisville, where he averaged 7.0 points and 3.1 rebounds as a freshman […]

When talking about someone who’s never afraid to get rough and tough with opponents, there’s no need to look further than Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart. Smart is as gritty as they come. The Celtics feed off his winning plays, those that do not manifest in the boxscore but has as much impact — maybe […]

Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens saw his team get reduced to a bundle of individuals all ill-equipped to handle the destructive basketball force that is LeBron James Friday night when the Cleveland Cavaliers carved out a 109-99 win at home to keep their title hopes alive. Following the game, Stevens tried to sum up […]

The Boston Celtics were unable to close out the Cleveland Cavaliers in a pivotal Game 6. Fortunately, they managed to avoid an injury scare involving small forward Jayson Tatum. Tatum was involved in a collision with power forward Kevin Love early in the game. According to Keith Smith of RealGM, head coach Brad Stevens said the […]

One of the most frightening in-game situations a player could find himself in is having to stop LeBron James one-on-one at the rim. Apparently, Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart is not the type who’ll back down from such a challenge. At one moment during the early goings of the fourth quarter of Game 6 of […]

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart brings a little bit of everything to the table for his team. That includes highlights, which he has already supplied the Celtics in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night in Cleveland. Late in the first quarter of the contest, Smart tried to sneak into the middle of […]

The Boston Celtics are not going to make any modifications to one thing that worked for them in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals. According to Jay King of The Athletic, Celtics head coach Brad Stevens will stick to the same starting lineup that led his team to a 96-83 win over the Cleveland […]

The NBA Finals schedule is officially out, and with both the Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the Western Conference Finals between the Houston Rockets and Golden State Warriors having at least a Game 6, the Championship round schedule could have any number of results. Here is the […]

The Phoenix Suns were the big winners of last week’s 2018 NBA Draft Lottery when they were announced to have won the right to select the first overall pick. There’s no question that the Suns are the envy of just about every NBA team these days, as they have the luxury of picking the best […]

The Boston Celtics return to Cleveland with an opportunity to end LeBron James’ Eastern Conference reign, holding a 3-2 lead. Each time the series has shifted locations, however, we’ve practically seen two entirely different teams. Will Boston be able to break the series trends, or will the Cavs force Game 7? Cleveland’s formula for success […]

A new star ignited in Boston during the playoffs, and his name is Jayson Tatum. More precisely, a few celestial beings have crafted their origin stories in Beantown this postseason. Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Terry Rozier have lit up the scoreboard inside TD Garden for 10 straight home playoff games, igniting the Celtics crowd each […]

The Boston Celtics are only one win away from unseating the Cleveland Cavaliers as Eastern Conference champions, and coach Brad Stevens still thinks his teams has adjustments to make. The Celtics blew out the Cavaliers on Wednesday to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. The series shifts back to Cleveland in a win-or-go-home […]

The Boston Celtics went back to the well on Game 5, putting Marcus Morris as the primary defender on LeBron James, getting past the constant foul trouble that had plagued him through Games 3 and 4. According to Adam Himmelsbach of The Boston Globe, after guarding James for 39 of 158 possessions in Cleveland, he […]

Jayson Tatum has transcended the meaning of the word “rookie,” becoming the highest scorer of any rookie since 1976, according to HoopsHype. Tatum was meant to be a key player in the Boston Celtics rotation since being drafted with the third overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, but his role went up another notch […]

The All-NBA Defensive teams were released recently. And Marcus Smart of the Boston Celtics, who’s primarily known for his stifling on-ball defense, took a jab at the entire thing after not being included. As reported by Nicole Yang of Boston.com, Smart concluded his post-game media session: “And that’s coming from a not top-five defender in […]

Boston Celtics forward Marcus Morris has been the Cerberus in charge of keeping the Cleveland Cavaliers in check. Primarily tasked with defending LeBron James, Morris is taking on all comers, even less heralded ones like Larry Nance Jr., who got a taste of his trash-talking ways during a Game 5 loss to the Celtics on […]

March Madness hero Donte DiVincenzo seems to be in the radar of the Boston Celtics general manager and president Danny Ainge, as the two reportedly had lunch together following a pre-draft workout, according to Adam Zagoria of The New York Times. Celtics President Danny Ainge took @NovaMBB 's Donte DiVincenzo to lunch after their workout […]

Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens is known for not revealing his starting lineups prior to a game. He gave out his reason why, and it seems to be a pretty valid one. As reported by Jared Weiss of The Athletic, Stevens said he doesn’t reveal the starting lineups mainly because nobody told him that […]