BOSTON — Considering his 26-point, 11-rebound effort in the Celtics’ 105-98 victory in Game 2 of the NBA Finals Sunday night, does that now make Jrue Holiday Boston’s best player? …
BOSTON — Twenty years after the Seven-Seconds-or-Less Phoenix Suns shook up the NBA with an offense the likes of which the league had never seen or tried to defend before, …
BOSTON — With two minutes left until halftime of a second-round closeout game, Al Horford spotted a loose ball deep in the right corner. The Boston Celtics led the Cleveland …
BOSTON — Before his new team had even seen the court, Kristaps Porziņģis was already competing. At media day, players are shuttled through a circuit of interviews, news conferences and …
Each NBA playoff series is its own distinct event, with no real continuity point between the end of one and the beginning of another. The Minnesota Timberwolves, for instance, knocked …
INDIANAPOLIS — This time, a trip to the Eastern Conference finals by the Boston Celtics ended without any clamoring from the public and the press box that the coach must …
As the NBA closes in on a new media rights deal, much of the attention has been on what it means for the league and its teams. But there’s also …
When Jrue Holiday was a teenager, he needed to make some extra money. He had a knack for bagging groceries, arranging cans of soup alongside bags of grapes to maximum …
Sample size matters, people. So when The Athletic launched its first NBA player poll in 2019, with 127 players answering questions about league matters so honestly because of the anonymity …
We, as a species, have trouble imagining something until it actually happens. The NBA playoffs are a perfect vessel from which to view this particular shortcoming. The Boston Celtics just …