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The Boston Celtics were formed on June 6, 1946, by Boston Garden-Arena Corporation president Walter A. Brown as a team in the Basketball Association of America. In 1948, the team earned its first playoff appearance, only to lose to the Chicago Stags 4–1. In 1949, the team missed the playoffs, fifth in the Eastern Division.
Stephen Gerard Pagliuca (born January 16, 1955) is an American private equity investor, co-chairman of Bain Capital, [1] and co-owner of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) [2] and Atalanta of Italian Serie A association football league.
Jrue Randall Holiday (/ d r uː / DROO; [1] born June 12, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season with the UCLA Bruins before being selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the 2009 NBA draft with the 17th overall pick.
When Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck felt like his life could be the premise for a television sitcom, he knew just where to turn: His friend Tom Werner, a Red Sox owner and TV veteran who was ...
In 2008, the Celtics won their 17th NBA Championship and their 18th Championship on June 17, 2024, after beating the Dallas Mavericks in 5 games. [ 5 ] In 2010, Grousbeck became Chairman of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEE), a research and clinical hospital specializing in blindness and deafness research. [ 6 ]
Boston struggled with injuries in the 2020–21 season, with Walker, Tatum and Brown all missing games at different points in the season due to injury and COVID-19. Boston could not automatically qualify for the playoffs and were sent to the play-in tournament, where they defeated the Washington Wizards 119–100. In the playoffs, they lost to ...
On December 20, 2017, he scored a career-high 32 points in a 90–89 win over his former team, the Boston Celtics. [26] On March 19, 2018, he scored 30 points off the bench in a 149–141 double-overtime win over the Denver Nuggets , becoming the second bench player in Heat history to score 30 points. [ 27 ]
[31] [32] The Celtics went on to beat the Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers in five games during the first round and Eastern Conference Semifinals, respectively. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] After completing a 4–0 sweep of the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals, [ 35 ] Mazzulla, at the age of 35, became the youngest head coach to make the NBA ...