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Orlando comes into a matchup against Boston as winners of three straight games. The teams meet Sunday for the third time this season. Boston is 5-6 against
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Interesting Stat Shows How Much Celtics Are Missing Jayson Tatum
Jayson Tatum suffered an Achilles tendon tear during the Boston Celtics’ 2025 Eastern Conference Semifinals loss to the New York Knicks. He’s expected to miss most, if not all, of the 2025-26 NBA season.
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In the NBA, it's so easy to lose a game: Anfernee Simons on what ails the Boston Celtics
Simons epitomized the reality in front of Boston for that Nets loss, and was not being offered as an excuse for how the Celtics played.
The Orlando Magic picked up a major win over the New York Knicks on Saturday evening, and they have a quick turnaround on Sunday against the Boston Celtics and
Neemias Queta has one of the best defensive ratings in the NBA as he's been a force inside the paint to open the season.
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Today in Boston Celtics history: Bradley debuts; Ford 1st 4-point play; Naulls passes
Naulls was, with Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Sam Jones, and Tom Sanders, part of the first all-Black lineup in the history of North American pro sports in 1964, and a key part of three of Boston's titles in their golden age of dominance in the mid-1960s. He averaged 10.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game with the Celtics -- rest in peace.
The 2025-26 Boston Celtics are a strange team. That’s not to suggest that fans expected much more of the NBA’s most winningest franchise 14 games into the regular season.
The team was so inconsistent there during the preseason that head coach Joe Mazzulla repeatedly pulled players from games when they surrendered an offensive rebound. The Celtics then allowed a total of 50 offensive boards over their first three regular-season games, including 21 by the Knicks and 19 by the Pistons.
Today in Boston Celtics history, Vincent Lamont "Vin" Baker was born in Lake Wales, Florida in 1971. Baker played his NCAA basketball at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, where he won America East Player of the Year in 1993 before he was picked up with the eighth overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA draft that same year.