Boston Celtics

It seems that someone forgot to tell the Houston Rockets that the NBA’s 2015-16 regular season is underway. The early part of 2015-16 has no doubt been weird. Some of the usual juggernauts are juggernauting, but this year’s landscape is rife with early-season underachievers, the fast-plummeting Rockets being among them. Can Houston regain its 2014-15 [...]

DeMarcus Cousins will not be wearing Boston Celtics green anytime soon. So, stop photoshopping things. All is not well with the Sacramento Kings, because all is never well with the Sacramento Kings. They’ve won three in a row, but they don’t look anything like the fringe playoff team they strived to be over the offseason, [...]

NBA Power Rankings are back! After a short delay, the return of The Hoop Doctors’ weekly look at where the league stands is once again ready for liftoff. There are no rules here, so check your need for order at the door. These rankings, like always, are going to change from week to week. That’s [...]

Boston Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck knows his team isn’t built to win an NBA championship now. But he thinks they’ll be there soon. Really soon. Like, by the end of this season or the beginning of next season. The Celtics, to be sure, are undergoing one of the more intriguing rebuilds. They have a ton [...]

The Boston Celtics are, on paper, one of the NBA’s most intriguing teams heading into 2015-16. This is both a good and bad thing. The Celtics are intriguing because they’re so damn deep, and that’s good. But that leaves head coach Brad Stevens with the task of deciding whom to play, and that’s a steep [...]

The Boston Celtics like Kevin Love as a friend. Do they love him? Eh. Last summer, the Celtics were one of the teams most frequently mentioned in the same breath as Love. He wanted out of Minnesota, and Celtics president Danny Ainge had assets to sling. None of those assets ultimately caught the attention of [...]

Paul Pierce may be ready to hang up his laces and retire his NBA playoffs time machine for good. Or he may not be ready. Following the Washington Wizards’ Game 6 loss and second-round playoff exit at the hands of the Atlanta Hawks, a series and season that ended with Pierce getting off a potential [...]

The NBA playoffs aren’t yet over, but the free-agency speculation mill gives exactly zero craps. Participating in a three-writer panel for CSNNE.com that touched upon the Boston Celtics’ offseason plans, A. Sherrod Blakely kind-of-sort-of dropped a bomb (h/t CBS Sports and Fox Sports for the transcription): I think there’s a 35, 40 percent chance that [...]

Kevin Love’s season-ending shoulder injury has given him the sadz. But he’s gradually getting the happyz. After jostling for position under the basket with the Boston Celtics’ Kelly Olynyk in Game 4 of the first round of the playoffs, Love was forced to undergo shoulder surgery that cut his first-ever postseason appearance short. He was [...]

To answer your question, yes, it seems Kevin Love is one of those people who holds grudges. Not four full games into his first playoff campaign, Love’s postseason experience was brought to an abrupt end by the Boston Celtics’ Kelly Olynyk. The two locked arms as they were fighting for position under the basket, and [...]