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The Boston Celtics were without starters Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo and three bench players, severely depleting their roster for Monday night's game against the Orlando Magic. Boston coach Doc Rivers delivered the news about an hour before the game. Allen jammed his left ankle in the second quarter of Sunday's win at ...

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 ...

Boston coach Doc Rivers feels what is said on the court should be left on the court. Detroit's Charlie Villanueva took it to Twitter on Tuesday night, writing on his account that Kevin Garnett called him a "cancer patient" during Boston's 109-86 road win. Villanueva suffers from alopecia universalis, a ...

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 ...

Nate Robinson figures the Boston Celtics' bench won't face much stiffer competition than what they see in their own practices. Robinson scored 13 points, including a key 3-pointer, to lift the Celtics to a 91-87 preseason win over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night. With aging stars Kevin Garnett, Paul ...

Andrew Bynum popped champagne in the middle of the hallway outside the Lakers locker room. Ron Artest lost his voice, screaming at the top of his lungs while clutching what the Lakers had worked for all season. But the moment that may very well stand out was the image ...