2001 — Colorado’s Patrick Roy sets an NHL record with his 16th career playoff shutout, making 20 saves in a 2-0 win over Los Angeles. 2003 — Andre Agassi recaptures the world no. 1 ranking to become ...

Charles Cooper, an All-American from Duquesne playing with the Harlem Globetrotters, becomes the first black to be picked in ...

The Lakers made their annual pilgramage to the Finals, but waiting for them was a new opponent - the Pistons. And the Bad Boys showed they were ready, taking the opener in Los Angeles behind 34 points ...

1966 — Bill Russell is named the coach of the Boston Celtics to become the first African American head ... to an 8-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium. 1988 — Ibrahim Hussein ...

Only one NBA team this century has won 60-plus games and repeated as champs in the same season. The Celtics are hoping to be ...

To Johnson, the league's greatest point guard, there was never much of a rivalry once the Lakers found their rhythm.

In most of their games since the NBA All-Star break, the Celtics have been missing at least one of their top players. On Wednesday, they were missing all of them. After beating the New York Knicks ...

The Celtics, locked into their No. 2 spot in the East standings, rested all their meaningful guys against the Magic. So the depth C’s played then fell to the Magic 96-76 on Wednesday in Orlando.

Episode VI of HBO’s “Celtics City” documentary that aired Monday night covers the time between the Celtics’ 1986 championship to Larry Bird’s 1992 retirement. The title “Untenable Toll ...

(AP) — Luke Kornet scored 13 points and had 14 rebounds, Al Horford had 11 points with 10 boards and the Boston Celtics ran away from the undermanned Washington Wizards to win 124-90 on Sunday ...

In what still stands as one of the Celtics’ most revealing wins of the season—a 117–103 road victory over Memphis last Monday—Holiday quietly added another chapter to one of the NBA’s ...