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The NBA today announced that the league's 66th season will tip off Christmas Day with a five-game slate, contingent on timely ratification of the new collective bargaining agreement. Kia NBA Tip-Off '11 will launch on TNT with one of the NBA's oldest and most intense rivalries. The Boston Celtics, featuring their ...

Doc Rivers gave the Boston Celtics their first win of the offseason. Barring a change of heart, he'll return to the sideline next season. And it's for a simple reason: He says the Celtics aren't finished as NBA title-contenders. Rivers' status has been the source of speculation for some time, ...

Paul Pierce got hit - and then run. Boston's captain was ejected with seven minutes left in Game 1 of the Celtics' Eastern Conference semifinal series on Sunday afternoon after picking up two technical fouls on separate plays in the fourth quarter. The ejection came after a play where ...

Boston Celtics forward Glen Davis has patellar tendinitis in his left knee and could be out a week. The team said an MRI on Thursday showed no major structural damage after Davis hurt the knee going up for a dunk with 49 seconds left in Wednesday's victory over the ...

Dwyane Wade's sore right ankle is not sore enough to present a problem for the Miami Heat. Wade was able to practice Monday and pronounced himself ready to go when the Heat open their post-All-Star schedule at home Tuesday night against Sacramento - one of several pieces ...

Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics has been fined $15,000 for throwing an object into the stands, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, NBA Executive Vice President Basketball Operations. The incident occurred with 8:02 remaining in the first quarter of Boston's 95-83 win over the Indiana ...

Coach Mike D'Antoni asked officials if they were certain how much time was left on the clock before the Knicks' final possession of their loss to Boston on Wednesday night. NBA rules prevented them from being positive. Paul Pierce's jumper broke a 116-all tie and the clock stopped with ...

Dwyane Wade has been part of a Miami Heat team that stumbled at the start of a season, and been part of a Heat team that began the year flying high. The slow-starting team won an NBA championship. The fast-starting club got bounced in the first round of the 2010 ...

The Boston Celtics' Rajon Rondo and the Los Angeles Lakers' Pau Gasol today were named the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Tuesday, October 26, through Sunday, October 31. Rondo helped the Celtics to a 2-1 record to start their season, including ...

Leaping to any conclusions about the radically new Miami Heat -- or the mostly old Boston Celtics, for that matter -- based on a sample size of one game in an NBA season is like believing exit poll results that trickle in next Tuesday at 6:07 a.m. Might ...