NBA superstar Kevin Durant sends positive message to Celtics' Jayson Tatum amid Achilles rehab originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/nba/celtics/onsi as Shocking Celtics Guard Has Become a Top Defender in NBA. A surprise Boston Celtics guard has emerged as, statistically, one of the best defenders in the league early into the season.

Last season the Celtics ranked 29th in the NBA in pace, averaging 96.59 possessions per game. This season they are also 29th, but coach Joe Mazzulla does not view this metric as an accurate representation of overall pace.

The Philadelphia 76ers will take on the rival Boston Celtics on Friday to begin NBA Cup group play looking to stay unbeaten.

The Houston Rockets have a noticeably thin guard room amid Fred VanVleet's season-ending injury. Bleacher Report proposed a trade that could fix everything.

Can the 4-0 Philadelphia 76ers stay undefeated in the early stages of the 2024-25 NBA season? Their next test is a clash with the 2-3 Boston Celtics at 7 p.m. ET Friday night in a rematch of a game last week which Philly won 117-116 in Boston.

A look at how an epic conversation between Gary Payton Sr. and a random Celtics fan during the 2022 NBA Finals.

Through about half a dozen games, the Celtics are worst in the NBA in 'OPP FTA- Team FTA', with Opponents taking a combined 84 more free throws than the Celtics have through the seven games they've played (via StatMuse ).