Boston Celtics

Joe Mazzulla has never coached like a man who believes in “momentum” the way everyone else uses the word. If anything, his Celtics tend to treat a bad first half …

On February 4, 1993, the Boston Celtics honored one of their greatest players ever, Larry Bird, by retiring his No. 33 jersey in a special two-hour ceremony at the sold-out …

For most of the night, the Boston Celtics controlled the tempo and the scoreboard. But the moment everyone talked about after Boston’s 112–93 win over the Sacramento Kings wasn’t a …

There are coaches who use the summer to decompress, and then there’s Joe Mazzulla, apparently dialing players on their birthdays just to remind them the league is doubting them. On …

The Celtics were about to inbound the ball late in the first overtime Friday night in Brooklyn. As the Nets set their defense, Joe Mazzulla caught something he didn’t like …

Nobody penciled this in. Not after Jayson Tatum went down. And yet, somehow, Boston is sitting second in the East at 27–16, quietly defying the math most people had already …

When Joe Mazzulla was asked this week what Celtics fans should expect from Jayson Tatum’s recovery timeline, Boston’s coach didn’t offer a date, a target month, or even a vague …

It didn’t look like a publicity stop at first. Just a regular outdoor run, kids in hoodies, a worn court, the usual rhythm of a local game that belongs to …

Joe Mazzulla didn’t walk into the postgame media room in Indianapolis to explain a loss. He walked in to file a complaint. After Boston’s 98–96 defeat to the Indiana Pacers …