The winds may be starting to blow in a different direction in the Eastern Conference. All season long, the Detroit Pistons have reigned atop the Eastern Conference.
Since being selected by the Boston Celtics as the No. 30 pick of the 2024 NBA draft, Baylor Scheierman has quietly established himself as an important contributor in Joe Mazzulla’s rotation.
Derrick White provided his stance on the chemistry between Boston Celtics’ superstar duo Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Tatum and Brown have been teammates since the 2017-18 campaign, going nine years and counting.
Heroes run the NBA, but every story also needs a villain. For some franchises, it's a particularly hated opponent, but every now and then, it's one of their own.
Eight minutes into the third quarter, Baylor Scheierman chased down Payton Pritchard’s missed 3-pointer and slapped the rebound back to him. The extra effort led to a feed to a wide-open Sam Hauser, who buried a second-chance three to give the Celtics a 26-point lead and forced a Cavaliers timeout.
Some games are complicated. This one was not. The Cavaliers simply could not make a shot when it mattered most, and the Boston Celtics happily took advantage in a 109-98 road win Sunday.
On Sunday afternoon, the Boston Celtics continued their winning ways with a relatively comfortable road win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. This marked the second game back from his Achliees injury for star Jayson Tatum, who scored 20 points in what was a defensive clinic for Boston.
Basketball has changed so, so much since it was first played in the late 1800s. The NBA has a lot to do with this, and there are even a handful of players who can be credited with influencing significant shifts on their own.
The Boston Celtics have gotten a boost over the weekend with the return of Jayson Tatum from an Achilles injury that kept him out of action for 10 months.
The Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday afternoon in Jayson Tatum’s second game back from his torn Achilles injury last May. In 27 minutes, Tatum scored 20 points, grabbed three rebounds, and had two assists.
Random dribbles from the Cavaliers’ 109-98 home loss to the Boston Celtics on Sunday. 1. It’s hard to win at basketball when you can’t pull the ball through that little orange sphere.
Jaylen Brown collected 23 points, nine rebounds and eight assists as the Boston Celtics built a 26-point lead on their way to a 109-98 victory over the host Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday afternoon.
The Celtics walked into Cleveland on Sunday and made it look easy. Final score: Boston 109, Cleveland 98. And honestly? It wasn’t even that close. Cleveland jumped out to an 11-3 lead and, for a brief, shining moment, Cavs fans thought they had something.
Jaylen Brown was more than happy to see his Boston Celtics co-star play again for the first time in nearly 10 months. Jayson Tatum was in the starting lineup next to Brown in the Celtics’ home game on Friday against the Dallas Mavericks at TD Garden in Boston, Mass.
Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown is a man confident in his abilities. But he’s also true enough to himself to admit that, all things considered, he’s not the best two-way player in the NBA.
Boston Celtics center Nikola Vucevic could miss the rest of the regular season following surgery to repair a broken right ring finger. The injury occurred during the first quarter of Friday's 120-100 victory against the visiting Dallas Mavericks.
Just being out there 10 months after an Achilles tear was an achievement in and of itself, but Tatum's actual performance on Friday night was historic in nature as well.
Veteran center Nikola Vucevic fractured the ring finger on his right (shooting) hand and will miss the remainder of Friday’s game vs. Dallas, the Celtics announced (via Twitter).