Jaylen Brown has been incredible so far this season without Jayson Tatum. He’s averaging a career high in points per game and leading the Boston Celtics to the second-best record in the East.
For much of the game, the Nuggets and Celtics battled, then in the 4th quarter it looked like Denver was pulling away. Then the Celtics made a late push but it was not enough as Denver was able to hold off Boston 114-110.
HoopsHype: Among the notable teams to express interest in trading for Zubac were the Indiana Pacers and Boston Celtics, HoopsHype has learned. Dating back from last season through Monday, Zubac is having the best stretch of his career, averaging 16.3 points on 62.2 percent shooting from the field, 12.2 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks.
The Boston Celtics won their fourth straight game by defeating the Chicago Bulls 115-101 on Monday night at the TD Garden. The Celtics overcame a poor shooting night with strong offensive rebounding and a huge second half from Anfernee Simons.
Is the NBA MVP race already a wrap? Some people believe it is after Nikola Jokic went down with a hyperextended knee that will keep him out for at least a month.
Part of what makes the NBA, or any pro sports league, so compelling to watch is the narratives, especially those centered on rivalries. Throughout the decades, the NBA has fostered a number of rivalries, some long-lasting and others short but sweet.
The 2025-2026 Boston Celtics are exceeding even the most optimistic expectations. This season was supposed to be a retooling year and a gap year when the Celtics would finally pick inside the top-20 in the NBA Draft, maybe even quietly put their thumb on the scale and stealth-tank their way into the lottery.
When we’re young and we do poorly on a math test, we start to believe that we’re “bad at math.” We beat ourselves up, wonder why we’re lagging compared to our peers and internalize comments that seem harmless to others but eat at us inside.
Anfernee Simons poured in a game-high 27 points and Payton Pritchard added 21 as the Boston Celtics used a dominant defensive first half to cruise past the Chicago Bulls, 115-101, on Monday night.
The Celtics continue to draw a firm line when it comes to Anfernee Simons. According to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, Boston has been unwilling to attach a first-round pick to Simons in order to simply move off his contract for tax relief.
The Boston Celtics weren't supposed to be back at the top of the Eastern Conference, but with the calendar turning to 2026, that's where they find themselves ahead of the February 5 NBA trade deadline.
BOSTON — The Celtics (23-12) will look to make it five straight wins when they face the Denver Nuggets (24-12) on Wednesday night at 7pm at TD Garden. Boston enters the matchup relatively healthy; they’ll only be without Jayson Tatum, who continues to recover from a ruptured Achilles tendon, and Josh Minott, who is out with a left ankle sprain.
After a look at the stat sheet after the final buzzer of a Boston Celtics game, chances are there are a few noticeable things. Perhaps it would be yet another Jaylen Brown 30+ point game, or a Derrick White three-point shooting clinic.
BOSTON — On Saturday night, Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown put on a 50-point performance that fans are sure to remember, as he delivered an offensive masterclass that helped the C’s crush the Los Angeles Clippers, 146-115.
The Boston Celtics destroyed the Chicago Bulls on Monday night at the TD Garden, 115-101, and they had two 20-point scorers in the process. Shockingly, neither was the red-hot Jaylen Brown, who, with 14 points, scored below 20 for the first time since November.
On Monday night, the Boston Celtics improved to 23-12 with a comfortable home win over the Chicago Bulls, 115-101. The big hero of this game was Anfernee Simons, who poured in 27 points, more than making up for a rare off night from Jaylen Brown on the heels of his 50-point performance against the Los Angeles Clippers over the weekend.
Jaylen Brown Just Sent the NBA a Message! The world of basketball has been rattling with excitement as Jaylen Brown, the Boston Celtics‘ young star, is rapidly establishing his dominance.
Payton Pritchard had an impressive highlight to close out the first half of the Boston Celtics’ matchup against the Chicago Bulls on Monday night. Pritchard is going through the sixth season of his NBA career with the Celtics.
For the first 24 minutes on Monday night, the Boston Celtics looked exactly like a team battling heavy legs and jet lag. Fortunately for them, the Chicago Bulls looked even worse.
Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla has a good problem on his hands: he has more than five starter-worthy players on his roster. When Jayson Tatum returns from his Achilles tendon tear, that'll create a healthy competition to remain in the starting lineup.
Before the 2025-26 NBA season began, the majority of the basketball community dismissed the Boston Celtics as a serious threat. As crazy as that may seem, the thought process was justified considering they would be without Jayson Tatum.
Jaylen Brown picked his spot, picked his matchup, and picked his moment. Brown’s already strong season took a sharp turn upward Saturday night, when he dropped 50 points against the Clippers and asked to take Kawhi Leonard defensively.
Well, with the holidays now in the rear-view mirror, the real NBA season has finally begun. With 30-plus of the regular-season’s 82 games now in the books, teams — for better or worse — have a pretty strong sense of what they’re made of.
Boston Celtics guard Derrick White had one of the best games of his career in Tuesday night's win over the Utah Jazz, and he made NBA history in the process.