2025 NBA Playoff risers: Fantasy basketball breakouts ahead of the Finals

With the 2025 NBA Finals tipping off Thursday, hoops fans are treated to a clash of emerging squads as the Oklahoma City Thunder square off against the Indiana Pacers. Both…

Tyrese Haliburton is the most obvious buy in the hobby right now

At the start of the 2025 NBA Playoffs, Tyrese Haliburton was voted the most overrated player in the league. Fast forward a few weeks, and he’s led the Indiana Pacers…

NBA Playoff MVPs: These 10 stars have been the best performers of this epic postseason

A month since we first ranked our playoff MVP candidates and two weeks since we last did, we are nearly through three rounds of a postseason filled with game-winners, comebacks…

The Celtics’ season has come to a disastrous end — and the summer could bring major changes

Nineteen defending champions won as many games as the Boston Celtics did in this regular season. A dozen of them won another title. The Celtics could not. Not with the…

‘I’ve got no words right now:’ Celtics reeling in aftermath of Jayson Tatum injury but vow to be ready for Game 5

NEW YORK — Jaylen Brown stared out at a room full of reporters, all of us waiting for him to explain the inexplicable. Stared through us. It was a thousand-yard…

‘This is the fun part:’ Celtics rediscover their game, but the challenge is far from over

NEW YORK — You’d be hard-pressed to find many who actually believed the New York Knicks would take full advantage of the Boston Celtics apparently being on the ropes and…

Kristaps Porziņģis’ lingering illness looms large over a Celtics team looking for answers

The Celtics have bogged down. An offense that blitzed the NBA, scoring 120.2 points per 100 non-garbage-time possessions during the regular season and 120 points-per-100 in its five-game postseason-opening victory…

The Celtics’ 0-2 hole vs. Knicks is without precedent in the NBA playoffs

The Boston Celtics are making all kinds of history in the Eastern Conference semifinals. None of it is good. Two days after blowing a 20-point lead in a humiliating loss…

Celtics set NBA playoff record with 45 missed threes in shocking Game 1 loss to Knicks

The Boston Celtics live and die by the three. That’s mostly been a sound strategy for the team this season. The Celtics won 61 games in the regular season —…

Knicks stun Celtics in overtime to steal Game 1 of East semis

BOSTON — In the waning seconds of overtime, New York Knicks wing Mikal Bridges ripped a potential game-tying 3-pointer from the hands of Boston Celtics counterpart Jaylen Brown, and the…