A solid defender himself, Batum was appreciative of the defense he saw Jrue Holiday playing down the stretch of this crucial Game 5 between two teams with championship aspirations. The Milwaukee Bucks ...

Entering the playoffs, it looked like the cost of playing down to competition .500 or worse too often would be the Celtics having to go through the Sixers and Bucks to return to the NBA Finals. Then, ...

May 2 - Derrick White and Jaylen Brown each tossed in 25 points to help the Boston Celtics wrap up their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series against the visiting Miami Heat with a 118-84 ...

If Giannis Antetokounmpo, Damian Lillard, Jayson Tatum, and Jaylen Brown are all on the floor, you'd usually expect a high-scoring duel with plenty of trips to the line. Except that was not the case ...

As ever under an Ime Udoka-coached team, defense and rebounding have been the focus. Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards, guarded mostly by Amen Thompson and Dillon Brooks, went 0-for-8 on field goal ...

Today in Boston Celtics history, Vincent Lamont "Vin" Baker was born in Lake Wales, Florida in 1971. Baker played his NCAA ...

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Finally, it is also the date that Celtics small forward Phil Hankinson left us in 1996. A Penn alum taken by Boston with the ...