The Boston Celtics took a 114-108 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers at the Moda Center in the PNW because Jaylen Brown was the only Celtic who could create his own shot against an admittedly stingy group of Blazers wings.
Jrue Holiday was part of what seemed like a designed roster overhaul to tank this past offseason, but as it turned out, Boston Celtics PBO Brad Stevens was merely cutting ties with some of the bigger salaries on the books that were being spent on aging or injured players, while also not signing new ones.
The Boston Celtics are currently defying expectations. Here’s how the Celtics are rising in the Eastern Conference to secure an NBA Playoffs spot. Entering Tuesday’s game against the Utah Jazz, the Boston Celtics have a 19-12 record in hand, with a one-game losing skid.
It happened again. The late-game turnovers stole the headlines (pun intended) in the Celtics’ 114-108 loss in Portland, but big picture, it was just the sixth time in 31 games that Boston shot under 30% from behind the arc (13-of-34 for 29.5%).
Christmas and the NBA go hand-in-hand. The day serves for the top hoops league in the world, like Thanksgiving for the NFL. However, while the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys are perpetual Thanksgiving participants, the NBA has mixed up the matchups and the teams throughout the years.
The Boston Celtics have been one of the surprise stories of the NBA so far this season, currently sitting at 19-12 despite a recent road loss to the Portland Trail Blazers to open up their West Coast trip.
Those watching the Boston Celtics closely over recent years are familiar with Jaylen Brown and his rise to stardom. He helped lead Boston to a finals appearance in 2022.
Derrick White praised one of his Boston Celtics teammates for consistently putting up great numbers for the team this season. The Boston Celtics have certainly struggled to play championship-caliber basketball this season, with the absence of Jayson Tatum impacting them.
In a bad game for the Celtics, they had a chance to win the game down the stretch but some awful execution led to their downfall. At the 43 second mark of the 4th quarter, Derrick White hit a three to cut the Trail Blazers lead to 1 point.
Giannis Antetokounmpo trade talks have slowed in recent weeks, with the Milwaukee Bucks hanging around in the playoff race because of the Eastern Conference's lack of depth.
BOSTON – The Celtics are 19–12 and sit third in the Eastern Conference. They dropped their Sunday night game to Portland despite Jaylen Brown’s 37 points.
The Boston Celtics dropped a tough 114-108 decision to the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday, but you can not blame Jaylen Brown for that result. Brown finished with 37 points and recorded his ninth consecutive 30-point game.
Boston traveled to Portland Sunday night having won the past six meetings between the two teams. The Trail Blazers came into the game with many injured players, their youngsters hanging tough with the seasoned Celtics to snatch a big 114-108 home win.
The Boston Celtics have been good for over a decade now, making the postseason every single season since Isiah Thomas was acquired at the 2015 NBA trade deadline.
Through 30 starts in his sixth season in the NBA, Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard is putting up career-highs in three major categories: 17.2 points, team-leading 5.2 assists, and 4.5 rebounds per game.
Not having Jayson Tatum was supposed to make things extremely difficult for the Boston Celtics. But 30 games into the season, Boston has won 19 and stands in third place in the Eastern Conference.
If you turned off the TV in the first quarter of Friday night’s Celtics-Pacer’s game, nobody would blame you. Actually, scratch that we absolutely would blame you, because you missed one of the most bizarre, explosive, and downright entertaining turnarounds of the season.
The Boston Celtics had a rocky start to the 2025-26 regular season. But, two months in, the 2024 NBA champs are back in the Top 3 in the Eastern Conference.
https://www.celticsblog.com/celtics-scores-results/127719/celtics-outpace-pacers-win-140-122 The Celtics quickly fell behind by 15 in the first quarter but stormed back in the second quarter and never looked back, winning 140-122.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/video/news/sports/pacers-celtics-highlights-dec-22-2/4002217/ The Celtics defeated the Pacers 103-95 in a come-from-behind victory.
The Celtics were not supposed to look like this. Boston sits with the 10th-best record in the league through its first 26 games, a result few expected after Jayson Tatum tore his Achilles last spring and the team lost much of its frontcourt rotation in the offseason.
The Celtics have been one of the surprise stories of the 2025/26 season, boasting the 10th-best record in the league through their first 26 games, despite the loss of superstar Jayson Tatum in last year’s playoffs, as well as a majority of their big man rotation in free agency and trades.