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• The Celtics aren’t spectacular. That’s just the way they like it.

Photo by Winslow Townson/Getty Images The Celtics fittingly snapped the Cavaliers' undefeated start to the NBA season with a three-point barrage — but don’t call it a statement win. TD GARDEN — Joe Mazzulla wasn’t going to overplay the significance of the Celtics’ 120-117 win over the previously undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers. “To me, I care more about, can we do it again in 72 hours?” s...2024
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• D-White's reaction to Tatum's ‘favorite teammate' admission is gold

Derrick White found out that Al Horford was Jayson Tatum's favorite teammate while sitting next to the Celtics star, and his reaction was priceless....2024
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• Horford's heroics help C's snap Cavs' historic win streak

The Celtics handed the Cavaliers their first loss of the season on Tuesday night, and they couldn't have done it without their beloved 38-year-old big man Al Horford....2024
• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images Here are our 10 biggest takeaways from the new NBA season so far. The 2024-25 NBA season is underway, and it’s already proven to be full of surprises. The Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks were supposed to be fringe championship contenders, but so far both are among the worst teams in the league. The Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves were s...2024
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• The NBA’s 7 most important players this season

Photo by Jordan Johnson/NBAE via Getty Images These 7 NBA players will determine the championship picture this season. NBA championships are often won and lost in the summer. While trades and free agency signings usually get all of the attention, internal development from young players or the ability to stave off decline from older ones usually goes a long way to determining which team is ...2024
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• The Celtics were booed by their fans on ring night despite blowout win

NBAE via Getty Images The Celtics looked incredible in the season opener, but their fans were still upset about one tiny thing. The Boston Celtics accepted their 2024 championship rings on Tuesday night, and then showed why they’re the favorites to go for back-to-back titles this season. The Celtics blasted the New York Knicks, 132-109, in the season opener. The Knicks are spent all offsea...2024
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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more
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• The NBA’s 7 most important players this season
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• Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning

Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images Regardless of who has been on the floor, the defending champions have fittingly been the best team this preseason. BOSTON – Every now and then, confetti still falls from the rafters at TD Garden. In a Saturday night Celtics thrashing, a small piece of paper landed on Derrick White’s head. On Sunday, a few pieces were collected by an excited cou...2024
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• Unlikely big man is becoming Celtics star of preseason

With Kristaps Porzingis recovering from offseason surgery and Al Horford still working his way back to fitness, this big man has found himself playing in the starting lineup. And he could find himself sticking there until Porzingis returns...2024
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• Is a New York Liberty championship as inevitable as a Celtics title was?

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Sabrina Ionescu and Breanna Stewart have powered a historically dominant team all year — do the Minnesota Lynx have a chance? BROOKLYN — To say that the New York Liberty dominated the WNBA season is a massive understatement. They finished the season with a 32-8 record, winning games by an average margin of 9.2 points. They boasted two win streaks of 8 ga...2024
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round

Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust The 2024 NBA Draft is widely viewed as one of the weaker classes ever, but that doesn’t mean that some teams won’t find real contributors in the first round. Our network of draft experts tried to project who they’d be. The 2024 NBA Draft isn’t seen as the strongest class in the league’s history, but between Alex Sarr, Zacchari...2024
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• The Celtics’ rivals handed them a championship one bad trade at a time

Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images The Celtics’ ripped off their rivals in trades all the way to a championship The West is a pecked-over, apron-strewn, parity-fest. The East has more superstar divas on first and second-round losers than it does 50-win teams. If 2023-24 turns indicative, it will be the Rest of the NBA vs. Boston for the next few years. Not only did the 2023-24 Bosto...2024
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• How Celtics shut off the Mavericks’ offense in Game 1 of 2024 NBA Finals

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images The Celtics cornered the Mavericks by taking away the corners. There are certain buzzwords in the NBA that form immediate associations between them and certain players, teams, and coaches. Hearing the phrase “Triangle Offense” makes one think of Phil Jackson and his championship-laden tenures with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers. “Seven Seconds ...2024
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• Power forward continues to be most misunderstood position in NBA

The NBA’s modern evolution can be most easily seen in power forwards. We often talk about sports or fields or mediums as being in a transition. In football, it’s the popularity of two high shells to prevent explosive plays that took over the NFL in 2020. In baseball, it’s the slow extension of dugouts, from a rotation of five or six pitchers to a laundry list of specialists getting saved to be in ...2024
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• Kristaps Porzingis’ injury update should make Celtics a little nervous in NBA Finals

Porzingis is scheduled to play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, but how healthy is he really? Kristaps Porzingis has been away from basketball activities for the last five weeks after suffering a calf strain. The Boston Celtics marched all the way to the 2024 NBA Finals without him, but their toughest opponent yet is waiting next in the Dallas Mavericks. Porzingis has been expected to return to the li...2024
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• Erik Spoelstra is the Heat’s biggest cheat code in NBA Finals
Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Erik Spoestra can’t lose. If you forced me to define what I think makes a good coach in this modern league, my answer would be “Rigid flexibility”. It’s a paradox that demands being able to hold two things in your head at the same time, to understand two conflicting ideas can be true. If you’re too dogmatic, you live and die by the same double-edged s...2023
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• Jae Crowder's Mixed Feelings About Boston Celtics Fans Should Be Mutual
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• DeMarcus Cousins Confronts Reporter over Column on Nightclub Incident
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• Deng, D-Wade, Understand Derrick Rose's Plight, and the Price Paid for Playing
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"Men’s college basketball hasn’t seen a program win back-to-back national championships since Joakim Noah, Al Horford, and the Florida Gators accomplished the task in 2006-2007."

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"Marcus Smart began the possession guarding the 280-pound Joel Embiid and ended it by leaping over teammate Al Horford to pounce on a loose ball."

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"Celtics' Al Horford agrees to two-year, $20 million contract extension"

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"When the Sixers swapped Al Horford for Danny Green on draft night 2020, there were more positives than getting off Horford’s massive contract."

2020
"Could the Philadelphia 76ers and Detroit Pistons entertain a Blake Griffin for Al Horford trade?"

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"The Sixers may be without big men Joel Embiid and Al Horford against the Nets on Sunday night."

2018
"Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge was the last player chosen by Team LeBron, and Celtics forward Al Horford was the last pick by Team Stephen"

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"The post WATCH: Markieff Morris Confronts Al Horford Prior to Game 2 appeared first on SLAMonline."

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"But throughout the playoffs, the Australian point guard was at the center of several controversial plays involving Kyle Korver, Al Horford and Taj Gibson."

2015
" Beyond LBJ, the Atlanta Hawks' Al Horford, the Charlotte Hornets' Al Jefferson and the Bulls' Joakim Noah are all slated to be unrestricted free agents, while Dwight Howard has an early termination option with the Houston Rockets."

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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more
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• Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning
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• Why the Celtics succeed, and the Clippers failed, with similar team builds

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images What the NBA can learn from Celtics’ championship and Clippers’ failure. The team is led by two wings. One was just named to the All-NBA First Team, and the other just won Finals MVP. Both are talents the likes of which define the NBA — shooters, defenders, initiators, cutters. They do it all. The team is a championship favorite, of course, coming into t...2024
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• How math and video games can fix NBA positions

Photo by Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images It’s time for the NBA to get rid of positions — or at least overhaul them. Let’s discuss why (and how). In basketball, there are five positions: Point Guard, Shooting Guard, Small Forward, Power Forward, and Center. And it’s time for them to go. Science, logic and enlightened ideas have been challenging outdated concepts since someone came up with th...2024
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round
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• Does winning a title make Al Horford a Hall of Famer?

After 17 NBA seasons, Al Horford is finally an NBA champion. But does adding a ring make his career worthy of the Hall of Fame?...2024
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• The Celtics’ 2024 NBA championship just gave James Harden a record no NBA player wants

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Al Horford finally getting a championship with the Celtics just put James Harden in the lead among active NBA players for most playoff games without a ring. In the 186th playoff game of his NBA career, Al Horford won his first NBA championship. The Celtics capturing the 2024 title took Horford off an ignominious list, as Boston coming up short this y...2024
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• The Mavericks’ Game 4 showed a blueprint that could allow them to make history against the Celtics

Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports Dallas kept the door from slamming shut in Game 4. Here’s how they can keep it cracked open. After the Dallas Mavericks' deflating loss in Game 3 to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday, the normal cliches and platitudes were shared by players and coaches alike. The theme was universal: the series isn’t over, take it one game at a time. It was nothing earth-shatteri...2024
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history

Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images On and off the court, Derrick White’s presence has lifted Boston to where they are today. When the Boston Celtics got eliminated by the Brooklyn Nets in the 2021 NBA playoffs, the screen faded to black, and the credits began to run. The Brad Stevens years had come to a disappointing close, yet simultaneously, the true Stevens era hadn’t even begun....2024
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• The Celtics aren’t spectacular. That’s just the way they like it.
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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more
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• Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning
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• Is a New York Liberty championship as inevitable as a Celtics title was?
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• Why the Celtics succeed, and the Clippers failed, with similar team builds
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• How math and video games can fix NBA positions
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• How the Boston Celtics switched their way toward an NBA championship

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images The Celtics proved the old adage — “Defense wins championships’ — correct. On the surface, it was a seemingly mundane baseline out-of-bounds (BLOB) play at the four minute and ten second mark of the second quarter that the Dallas Mavericks were priming to run. But as is true of high-stakes NBA basketball, there are multiple layers hidden beneath the supposed sim...2024
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• The Mavericks’ Game 4 showed a blueprint that could allow them to make history against the Celtics
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning
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• Celtics' Al Horford receives Dominican Republic's highest honor

This past week, the 38-year-old brought the Larry O'Brien Trophy to the island nation, thinking he was just there to celebrate the occasion with his family and friends. However, he was in for a surprise....2024
• The Connecticut Sun are trying to steal some of the Celtics’ championship energy

Photo by Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Sun play the Sparks at TD Garden in a sold-out game on Tuesday. History will be made in Boston today, as the Connecticut Sun host the Los Angeles Sparks in the first-ever WNBA game to be played at TD Garden. The game is already sold out — much to the excitement of Sun players — and the court has already transformed to reflect tea...2024
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• How math and video games can fix NBA positions
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• Al Horford Plans To Continue Playing

Al Horford was the active player with the most playoff games played without an NBA title. The Boston Celtics 2024 NBA Finals victory took Horford off that list forever. In the aftermath of the Celtics title win, Horford was asked how long he plans to keep playing. He didn't commit to anything, but Horford said he's not planning on retirement yet. "For me, I never really put a timeframe on it," Hor...2024
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• The Celtics’ 2024 NBA championship just gave James Harden a record no NBA player wants
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• Horford reveals what winning a title in Boston would mean to him

Al Horford is living in the moment as he works towards helping the Boston Celtics raise another banner by winning the 2024 NBA Finals....2024
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• Kevin Durant's Return Is Just What The NBA Needs In 2015-16
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• NBA Players and Coaches Vote Matthew Dellavedova Dirtiest Player in the League
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• Entire Atlanta Hawks Starting 5 Named NBA January Players of the Month in East
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• DeAndre Jordan Proving Los Angeles Clippers Do, in Fact, Have a Big 3
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• Kevin Durant Rumors: Clippers Reportedly Informed Star Won't Sign with Team
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• After All the Conjecture, Playoffs Will Reveal What Matters Most to Kevin Love
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• NBA Insider: Iceman to Klay Thompson: Nice Shooting, Kid, but Record Still Mine
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• Al Horford Ejected from Game 3 for Flagrant-2 Foul on Matthew Dellavedova
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• Fantasy basketball 30: Al Horford turns back the clock, Ja Morant makes the leap

All the latest fantasy basketball news, buzz and trade rumors from around the NBA, including the impressive play by Al Horford and Ja Morant....2021
• Jerami Grant might be the most undervalued player in fantasy basketball
The fantasy basketball season is well underway and Hoops Rumors wants to help you make the playoffs in your season-long leagues as well as take down the competition in daily fantasy. Here are some observations and notes from around the league: The Undervalued Jerami Grant The list of players who are shooting at least 52.0% from the field while adding at least one block and one 3-pointer made per g...2019
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• Hawks Becoming Spurs of Eastern Conference and Tuesday NBA Takeaways
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• Do Atlanta Hawks Need a Trade to Fix Broken Bench?
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• Toronto Raptors 2014-15 Season Preview: Roster Breakdown, Win-Loss Prediction
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• The Celtics aren’t spectacular. That’s just the way they like it.
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• The NBA’s 7 most important players this season
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• The Celtics were booed by their fans on ring night despite blowout win
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• Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning
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• Unlikely big man is becoming Celtics star of preseason
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• Is a New York Liberty championship as inevitable as a Celtics title was?
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• The Connecticut Sun are trying to steal some of the Celtics’ championship energy
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• Why the Celtics succeed, and the Clippers failed, with similar team builds
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• How math and video games can fix NBA positions
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• Al Horford Confirms He Will Play Next Season

Boston Celtics center Al Horford confirmed he would return next season, despite rumors and speculation that he may choose to retire. Horford spoke to the media and said he will be back for next season, which will be his 18th season in the NBA. "I'm coming back. That's the plan," Horford said. He added that he was going to take some time off and then begin his offseason training for next season. Ho...2024
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• How Celtics shut off the Mavericks’ offense in Game 1 of 2024 NBA Finals
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Updated 1st round projection after March Madness

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Here’s our latest projection of the 2024 NBA Draft now that March Madness is over. The 2024 NBA Draft cycle opened this summer with massive uncertainty over would who emerge as the No. 1 player in the class. With college basketball season now over, and UConn again reigning supreme, it feels like we’re no closer to a consensus answer. The lack of an obvio...2024
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• 2024 men’s Final Four features a quartet of sensational storylines

Photo by Nicholas Muller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images While the spreads are high, the storylines for this year’s men’s Final Four are as stellar as ever. With UConn favored to beat Alabama by 11.5 and Purdue a 9-point favorite over NC State, the 2024 men’s Final Four is dangerously close to being the first in the history of the tournament to feature double-digit spreads in bot...2024
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• UConn’s road losing streak to ranked teams is men’s college basketball’s weirdest skid

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images UConn men’s basketball can do anything but beat a good team on the road. Men’s college basketball hasn’t seen a program win back-to-back national championships since Joakim Noah, Al Horford, and the Florida Gators accomplished the task in 2006-2007. While several teams have come close over the ensuing years, it feels like these UConn Huskies might have t...2024
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• Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State basketball showed who they really are at Champions Classic

Observations on Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, and Michigan State after the 2023 Champions Classic. CHICAGO — It was 10 years ago this week when I was credentialed to cover the Champions Classic at the United Center for the first time. There was, to steal a phrase, palpable buzz in the building. Duke vs. Kansas was a matchup of the top recruits in the country: Jabari Parker vs. Andrew Wiggins. Both play...2023
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