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The question of who the Boston Celtics will face in the first round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs has been settled after the Miami Heat defeated the Chicago Bulls in their second game of the league’s 2024 play-n tournament. And with that certainty, we can begin to analyze the matchup in earnest.The Heat are not the team that sent the Celtics packing in the 2023 Eastern Conference … [Read more...] about Full Boston Celtics first round 2024 East NBA Playoffs schedule vs. Miami Heat

Former Boston Celtics big man and current Celtics broadcaster for NBC Sports Boston Brian Scalabrine was recently credited by top 2025 NBA draft prospect Cooper Flagg for giving the future Blue Devil a confidence boost earlier in his career as a prospect. Speaking to HoopsHype’s Sam Yip, Flagg opened up about Scal’s impact on him as a younger, developing prospect. ” I … [Read more...] about Cooper Flagg credits former Boston Celtics big man Brian Scalabrine with confidence boost

The NBA is inching closer to a new, inevitable round of expansion, and based on what we have heard from league commissioner Adam Silver, it might not just be within the US and Canada. And while Mexico City might not be among the frontrunners, the growth of the league in popularity around the world will only continue to grow. What will NBA expansion look like this time, and in … [Read more...] about Celtics Lab 251: NBA expansion and covering Boston (and the league) from abroad with Josh Coyne

The Boston Celtics are set to face either the Miami Heat or the Chicago Bulls in their first round 024 NBA Playoffs series set to kick off on Sunday, April 21. The determining game will take place on this Friday (April 19) night when the Heat, without their star player Jimmy Butler due to an MCL sprain, will host the Bulls for the No. 8 seed and the right to play in the full … [Read more...] about Should the Boston Celtics want the Chicago Bulls or Miami Heat in Round 1?

The Boston Celtics are rarely at their best when star forward Jayson Tatum freelances as the team’s point guard while bringing the ball up the floor. Yet, we see it fairly often even now in games after Boston paying a steep price for Tatum’s bad habits in more than one postseason run. Now, an anonymous opposing NBA exec has shared with Heavy’s Steve Bulpett why he believes JT … [Read more...] about Why does Boston’s Jayson Tatum walk the ball up the court so much?

In most professional sports, the team that does the best in the regular season ends up playing the worst team to make the postseason. But since the advent of the NBA’s play-in game, that dynamic has shifted a bit for fans of the Association. And few better examples can be found than the Boston Celtics, who are now set to play either the Miami Heat or the Chicago Bulls in the … [Read more...] about Do the Boston Celtics want the Miami Heat or the Chicago Bulls in the first round?

When Kristaps Porzingis inked an extension with the Boston Celtics in the 2023 offseason, punching a ticket to the NBA Finals was the only goal. The deal put the Latvian big man in the best position to compete for a title in his career. From a practical standpoint, though, this created a new challenge. Porzingis is an avid car enthusiast, so a few luxury cars from his … [Read more...] about More than luxury: Why Kristaps Porzingis’ love for Mercedes-Benz is rooted in family

Despite being the team in the NBA with the best record for the 2023-24 regular season by far, the Boston Celtics have been surprisingly absent from the discussion of season-long hardware. A lot of this is due to the fact that most of the players taking the floor with any regularity have been making sacrifices to their individual games. But the intellectual author behind that … [Read more...] about Boston’s Brad Stevens projected as NBA’s 2023-24 Executive of the Year in new analysis