Celtics Clinch Playoff Spot, Will Officially Get Clippers' First-Round Pick
The Boston Celtics clinched a playoff spot with a road win in Cleveland on Tuesday night. Shortly after, they also secured a third pick in this summer's NBA Draft.
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The Boston Celtics clinched a playoff spot with a road win in Cleveland on Tuesday night. Shortly after, they also secured a third pick in this summer's NBA Draft.
The San Antonio Spurs ran past Boston 115-96 on Sunday, giving the short-handed Celtics their fourth straight loss.
Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart has been fined $50,000 by the NBA for forcefully shoving Philadelphia's Joel Embiid to the floor.
Please, Adam Silver, find a way to give the world a Celtics-76ers playoff series. We all need it.
The road back to normalcy has been a long one for Gordon Hayward this season, as he works to regain his All-Star form while recovering from a serious ankle injury. And as the Celtics get closer to the postseason, the road has grown longer.
Most Celtics fans wish Kyrie Irving loved the Celtics as much as Isaiah Thomas, but WBZ-TV Sports producer Joe Giza doesn't think that is possible -- or fair.
Brad Stevens has often been lauded for being a mastermind at drawing up successful after-timeout plays. But on Monday night, the Celtics head coach drew up a play that may go down as the worst to ever be scribbled on a whiteboard.
The Boston Celtics lost their game on Monday night. But after the game, Terry Rozier made sure that the losing stopped on the court.
Isaiah Thomas felt a whole lot of love from Boston on Monday night.
The Denver Nuggets rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the Boston Celtics 114-105 on Monday night.
Former Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas is in town, and it didn't take long for him to get reacquainted with the city where he spent three seasons.
Isaiah Thomas is back in Boston to face the Celtics for the first time since he was traded away nearly two years ago. And though his time in Boston did not end on the best of terms, Thomas wouldn't be opposed to wearing Celtics green once again.
The Celtics will likely be without Gordon Hayward as they look to close the regular season on a strong note.
The Celtics lost a big lead during a Saturday matinee at TD Garden, but escaped with a victory over Atlanta.
Thursday's win improved the Celtics' record to 42-27 on the year. That's markedly worse than most anticipated in the preseason, but it does make you start to wonder exactly how the Celtics might finish this season.
The Los Angeles Clippers routed the Boston Celtics 140-115 on Monday night. Terry Rozier led the Celtics with 26 points.
The Boston Celtics may have turned a corner. The same might be able to be said about their best player.
The Celtics will be playing without forward Jayson Tatum for the first time this season as they conclude a four-game road trip against the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night.
Kyrie Irving scored 30 points and Marcus Smart had 16 in the Boston Celtics' 120-107 victory over the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night in the latest edition of this storied NBA rivalry.
The Celtics will be out for a bit of revenge over the next few days, as they look to shake the road woes that have followed them all season.
Of all the positives to emerge thus far from the first half of the Celtics' four-game West Coast swing, none comes close to the surge from the man sporting No. 20 in green. (And white.)
Instead of dwelling on his mistake that let Sacramento tie the game in the closing seconds, Gordon Hayward made it moot.
Maybe all of those team meetings the Celtics have held throughout the season should have taken place on a plane instead of the locker room.
The Celtics actually showed some fight in their 128-95 blowout win over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night.
Gordon Hayward scored 30 points and the Boston Celtics ran away from the Golden State Warriors early on the way to a 128-95 win.
