Celtics

The Philadelphia 76ers have eyes for Providence’s Kris Dunn. By extension, they’re still lusting after the Boston Celtics’ No. 3 pick in the June 23 draft, according to CSNNE’s Tim Welsh (h/t Celtics Blog): “Philly has told Kris Dunn’s camp and his agent they are trying to push the buttons to have this happen before [...]

Feel free to fire up the Kevin Love-to-the-Boston Celtics trade rumors again. Celtics president Danny Ainge apparently met with Love’s agent, according to RealGM’s Andrew Perna: [tweet https://twitter.com/Andrew_Perna/status/743488661304532992] [tweet https://twitter.com/Andrew_Perna/status/743489125060313089] Are we sure Ainge just wasn’t seeing if Harrison Barnes was interested in coming to Beantown? Okay, that was mean. There could be a totally [...]

The Boston Celtics’ search for a star continues. It will no doubt reach fever pitch in free agency, but the draft is first. And the Celtics have three first-round selections, each of which is believed to be on the table as they try to upgrade the roster with a household name. Boston’s best bet for [...]

Isaiah Thomas wants the world to know he stands by a since-deleted tweet that indicated he would try recruiting Kevin Durant to the Boston Celtics this summer. From Adam Himmelsbach of the Boston Globe: As Isaiah Thomas sat on his porch at home in Tacoma, Wash., last Monday after watching the Thunder lose Game 7 [...]

Kevin Durant hasn’t indicated he’ll leave the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Boston Celtics, but if he does, he knows which players he wants to come with him. Or something. Here’s Butch Stearns of WEEI on this very issue (h/t NBC Sports): I have this on pretty good authority. The Celtics have sat with his [...]

Even though the Boston Celtics haven’t been rebuilding for long, they want the rebuild to be over. That tends to happen when you emerge as a low-key Eastern Conference contender not three years into your reinvention. The Celtics have picks, prospects, trade-friendly contracts and cap space. That’s a lethal combination. It’s led many of us [...]

Well, that didn’t take long. Kelly Olynyk was weighing the option of whether to have shoulder surgery as soon as possible or rest up, play for the Canadian national team and then get surgery sometime after. Either way, he was going to have surgery. Update: The Boston Celtics officially announced that he had surgery: The [...]

The concept of NBA players taking pay cuts in free agency to sign with certain teams is drastically overblown. Most players won’t willingly take less to re-sign with their incumbent team or to join new digs. When they do, it’s typically marginal (a la Carmelo Anthony with the New York Knicks in 2014 or the [...]

The Boston Celtics bowed out of their first-round playoff matchup with the Atlanta Hawks for many reasons. And the status of Kelly Olynyk was among the biggest ones. Yes, Jae Crowder wasn’t 100 percent. And sure, Avery Bradley’s absence killed the Celtics’ spacing. But Olynyk, when healthy, is Boston’s second-best two-way player, someone who stretches [...]

Is Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge searching for the team’s next Paul Pierce? Absolutely. And he’s not shy about admitting as much. From the Providence Journal‘s Scott Souza: The key is to remain as flexible as possible heading into the draft and free agency as Ainge decides whether to double down on the rebuild, or [...]