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increase font size Bostons season ended Tuesday night after losing to the Brooklyn Nets in 5 games. By TIM REYNOLDSAssociated Press Share The Boston Celtics are beginning their offseason with a shakeup of the front office and coaching staff, with team president Danny Ainge stepping down and coach Brad Stevens moving into the front office, a person with direct knowledge of the moves said Wednesday. Celtics staff were informed of the moves and the team tweeted the news Wednesday morning. Danny ...

Danny Ainge speaking at WBURs CitySpace in 2019. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) The Boston Celtics shook up their front office on Wednesday, a day after they were eliminated from the playoffs, with president of basketball operations Danny Ainge retiring and coach Brad Stevens moving up to the front office to replace him. The moves game about 12 hours after the 17-time NBA champions lost to the Brooklyn Nets in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series. The Celtics, who reached the conference finals in thr...

Ainge retires, Stevens moves to front office The Boston Celtics shook up their front office on Wednesday, a day after they were eliminated from the playoffs, with president of basketball operations Danny Ainge retiring and coach Brad Stevens moving up to the front office to replace him. The Canadian Press Danny Ainge and Brad Stevens , Boston Globe/Boston Globe/Getty Images The Boston Celtics shook up their front office on Wednesday, a day after they ...

Stevens to replace Ainge in major Celtics’ shakeup Bostons season ended Tuesday night after losing to the Brooklyn Nets in 5 games. By TIM REYNOLDSAssociated Press Share The Boston Celtics are beginning their offseason with a shakeup of the front office and coaching staff, with team president Danny Ainge stepping down and coach Brad Stevens moving into the front office, a person with direct knowledge of the moves said Wednesday. Celtics staff were informed of the moves and the team tweeted ...

No commuter rail service from North Station after Saturday’s Bruins game, T says The T is unable to expand service as it recovers from low ridership during the pandemic, an MBTA spokesman said. A woman walked down Red Auerbach concourse at North Station. May 28, 2021 | 9:01 AM Email Bruins fans coming to TD Garden for Saturday’s playoff game one of the second-round series with the New York Islanders will have limited options for getting home, as the last two commuter rail tr...

HOME DROUGHTS A pair of long droughts for fans in Los Angeles and New York could end in the next few days. The last time the Los Angeles Lakers won a playoff game in their own building, Staples Center, was May 18, 2012. (Remember, everything last season was at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.) Let’s put how long ago May 2012 was in some context: At that point, LeBron James still had zero NBA championships, and the Lakers’ win that day was against an Oklahoma City team t...

Virginia Union star Ben Wallace voted into Basketball Hall of Fame By: The Associated Press and last updated 2021-05-17 14:06:10-04 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Jay Wright used to sell tickets to games in the long-defunct United States Football League. Ben Wallace was passed over by every NBA team, some of them twice. Yolanda Griffith got a job repossessing cars so she could take care of herself and her infant daughter while playing community college basketball. For all of them, th...

Chris Webber, Paul Pierce, Chris Bosh and Ben Wallace were among those announced on Sunday as members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame...

May 7, 2021 Steve Kerr, ever the statesman, won’t say which team or which player the Warriors chose to torment one fine evening back in January—only that he saw a chance to unleash Stephen Curry, one of the greatest offensive weapons in basketball history, on some poor, overmatched defender. “We wanted to pick on a certain matchup,” Kerr recalls. “And so the first four or five minutes of the game, we said, ‘Let’s run pick and roll against this guy for five straight minutes.’ ”...

Rabbi Jonathan Maltzman has been an unabashed Philadelphia 76ers fan for more than four decades, ever since his father, Rabbi Marshall Maltzman, brought home the team’s coach — and one of the greatest Jewish basketball players of all time — Dolph Schayes, for a Passover Seder. At the time, Sixers-Celtics was one of the fiercest rivalries in sports. Philadelphians loved Wilt Chamberlain and loathed Bill Russell, but saved plenty of venom for Celtics coach Red Auerbach. “I hated his cocki...