Boston Celtics

May 12, 2011 – Kevin Burke Winning a Conference Semifinal series doesn’t earn you a championship ring. All it does is guarantee you a spot in the Conference Finals. But for LeBron James, I’m sure it feels like a bit more than that. Last night, the Miami Heat ousted the Boston Celtics from the playoffs [...]

May 9, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors If you were wondering why Chris Bosh didn’t have much of an impact in Game 3 against Boston, you’re not the only one. Finishing with six points and five rebounds in 30 minutes worth of work, something had to be up. But who would’ve thought it was his [...]

Here's the matchup we all wanted: Heat vs. Celtics. This series should give us all we wanted and more... [...]

March 15, 2011 – Allen Moll After defeating the Boston Celtics 89-86 in Philly last Friday night to avenge a disheartening 102-101 home loss in December, are the 76ers out of line for rubbing it in Celtics fans’ faces by essentially boasting, ”Thanks for coming. Please come back and get another *ss whooping in the [...]

After Kevin Garnett's groin tap on Channing Frye in their first matchup, it's clear that these two teams don't like each other. [...]

February 2, 2011 – Kevin Burke In September of 2009, Bruce Bowen retired from the NBA after he was released by the Bucks. Among Bowen’s many accomplishments during his 12-year career include 3 championship rings with the Spurs, as well as being named to the All-NBA first or second defensive team 8 times. Those are [...]

January 27, 2011 – Allen Moll When all is said and done and Boston Celtics great Paul Pierce finally does hang it up sometime in the future, there’s no doubting that his #34 jersey will join the many other Celtic greats like Bill Russell, John Havlicek, and Larry Bird up in the rafters at TD [...]

January 19, 2011 – Allen Moll Talk about trouble in paradise. There’s rumors swirling that Boston Celtics big man and future Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal has ended his engagement to former VH1 reality show winner Nikki “Hoopz” Alexander. Back in August The Hoop Doctors gave you some steamy pics of the “Big Shamrock’s” new [...]

January 6, 2011 – R.S. De France Can you really compare a future Hall of Fame power forward with a forgettable forward like Tyson Chandler?  Well, that’s exactly what Dirk Nowitzki recently did. On TNT last Thursday during the San Antonio Spurs v. Dallas Mavericks game, which the Spurs only won 99-93 despite the absence [...]

December 30, 2010 – Dr. Anklesnap A couple days ago we told you about the NBA fining the Celtics’ Shaquille O’Neal $35K for his comments about the officiating following the C’s loss to the Orlando Magic on Christmas Day. Well I guess Shaq hadn’t gotten the memo about the fine before Comcast Sportsnet had a [...]