Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics ended their four-game road trip with a loss against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night, falling short 103-84.
Jayson Tatum watched on as Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics fell to 38-20 on the 2025-26 NBA season after a 103-84 loss to Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.
As the 2025-26 NBA regular season approaches its climax, all eyes are on players recovering from ACL injuries sustained last season. Leading the charge is Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum, who is making impressive strides in his comeback.
After suffering a brutal 103-84 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night, the Boston Celtics were disqualified from meeting the 40-20 rule, which argues that in order to win an NBA championship, a team must win 40 games before it drops 20 during the regular season.
After the Celtics took a slim 67-66 lead with just under two minutes left in the third quarter against the Denver Nuggets Wednesday night, the wheels fell
The NBA is a league built on the backs of its stars. Every now and then, guys in the NBA will raise their play to All-Star level, and sometimes, that run only lasts for one season.
As we breathlessly await the next trickle of information about Jayson Tatum’s eventual return to the court, it makes sense to discuss something that I’m sure the coaching staff has been thinking about for a long time.
Sometimes in life, you feel like you’re a step behind. Nothing big, but yet, it creates a difference between where you should be and where you are, and this small difference has consequences.
The Boston Celtics could’ve secured a four-game road trip sweep over the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night, had it not been for their second-half tumble.
The Celtics hung around for about two-and-a-half quarters, but then Denver went on a huge run and Boston seemed to succumb to the fatigue of three-games-in-four-nights.
The Boston Celtics traveled to Denver to face the Nuggets Wednesday night. Boston had been surging up the power rankings with a blistering month of February and faced off against the fourth placed Nuggets.
Team USA’s decision to leave Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown off the roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics became a hot-button topic. It was a curious call, to say the least, as Brown was coming off winning a championship with the Celtics and being named Finals MVP.
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The Boston Celtics have had a truly astounding season. Despite All-NBA forward Jayson Tatum undergoing a brutal Achilles injury that he continues to rehab from deep into this season, Jaylen Brown has seemingly taken on the duty of carrying the Celtics into contention as an MVP candidate.
The Celtics aren’t rushing Jayson Tatum back. But they are finally seeing him look like himself again. According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, Tatum has reached a significant checkpoint in his recovery from a ruptured Achilles, participating as a full-go in five-on-five scrimmages with Celtics.
On the front-half of a back-to-back, the Boston Celtics faced off against a short-handed Phoenix Suns team, securing a commanding 97-81 victory. The Celtics weren’t at full-strength themselves, though, Jaylen Brown missing the game with a knee contusion.
Since taking over as the Boston Celtics head coach in 2022, defense has remained a priority for Joe Mazzulla. In his first three full years with the Celtics, Boston ranked as a top-five team in defensive rating, according to NBA.com.
The Boston Celtics have won four games in a row and nine of their last 10, recovering from a mid-January lull to sit in second place with a 38-19 record.
The Boston Celtics were rolling, up 21 and in the midst of a massive 50-11 run that was breaking the game open in Phoenix. The Suns were desperate for anything that was going to give them momentum, and it looked like they were about to get it. Jamaree Bouyea picked up a loose ball and raced up the right slot.
The Nuggets won at Boston in early January without their best player. The Celtics will try to even the score potentially without their top scorer on Wednesday night when they visit Denver.
Derrick White scored 22 points, Neemias Queta had 14 points and 13 rebounds, and the visiting Boston Celtics rolled over the short-handed Phoenix Suns 97-81 to extend their winning streak to four.
Let’s face it, late February is usually the part of the NBA season where things get a little sleepy. The trade deadline hype is over, the All-Star break is now in the past, and everyone is just waiting for the real games to start in April.
Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla was not bothered by Pat Riley’s trash talk toward his team on Sunday. If anything, it was the opposite. The Los Angeles Lakers unveiled a statue of Riley prior to Sunday’s rivalry game with Boston at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, and honored his contributions to the franchise.
The Celtics will get back to the required roster minimum by converting two-way player John Tonje to a 10-day contract, agents George Roussakis and Mark Bartelstein tell Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link).