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Game 1 saw Paul Pierce come back after apparently suffering a knee injury earlier in the game, and taking over the game for a 98–88 Celtics win. But in Game 2, Boston nearly lost a 20-point lead, ultimately winning, 97–91. Squandered leads would later become the story of the series.
Red Auerbach coached the Boston Celtics to 9 NBA titles, with eight straight between 1959 and 1966. There have been 18 head coaches in Celtics' history. Red Auerbach is the most successful franchise's head coach having won 9 NBA championships with the team.
Walter Brown was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and attended Boston Latin from 1922 to 1923 and Phillips Exeter Academy from 1923 to 1926. After succeeding his father, George V. Brown, as manager of the Boston Garden, he stated his belief that, "Boston should have a basketball team." Taking a mortgage out on his home, he founded the Celtics ...
During the 1926–27 season, the team replaced the Brooklyn Arcadians after five games and took the name Brooklyn Celtics. By the next season, they had returned to the name, New York Celtics . After winning back-to-back ABL championships in 1926–27 and 1927–28, the team was broken up.
Pritchard helped the Celtics reach the 2022 NBA Finals, where they lost to the Golden State Warriors in six games despite a 2–1 lead. [ 28 ] In the final game of the 2022–23 season on April 9, 2023, Pritchard tallied his first career triple-double by putting up a career-high 30 points, a career-high 14 rebounds, and a career-high 11 assists ...
He was hired to be Boston's head coach in June 2021, but just 15 months later the Celtics suspended him for the entire 2022-2023 season due to a "volume of violations" of team policy.
BOSTON — When Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck felt as if his life could be the premise for a situation comedy on TV, he knew just where to turn — his friend , Tom Werner, a part owner of ...
Jaylen Marselles Brown (born October 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one year of college basketball for the California Golden Bears and was named first-team all-conference and Freshman of the Year in the Pac-12 Conference.