Boston’s title defense got off to a great start in the 2008-09 season as the C’s won 27 of their first 29 games and the Big Three were all named All-Stars. Unfortunately, a leg injury kept Kevin Garnett from playing much of the second half of the season and the entire playoffs. Kendrick Perkins, along […]

The Celtics may have started the superteam trend in the 2007-08 season when they added Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett to Paul Pierce and won an NBA World Championship title. By the 2011 NBA Playoffs, the Celtics still looked like the beasts of the East when they swept the New York Knicks in the Eastern […]

Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce faced off against Ray Allen, their former teammate and member of the Big Three, on January 27, 2013. The trio had previously helped lead the Celtics to the franchise’s 17th NBA World Championship title in 2008. In Allen’s first season away from Boston, Garnett led the Celtics with 24 points […]

The Celtics played their first home game since the Boston Marathon bombing on April 26, 2013. “[W]e’re anticipating [the crowd] to be very emotional, very inspiring,” Kevin Garnett said before the game. The game marked one of many moments in franchise history in which Boston basketball helped heal the community in times of turmoil. Despite […]

In a team preview ahead of the 2007-08 season, journalist Gary Dzen wrote that new arrival Kevin Garnett was “the heart and soul of this Celtics team.” In Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers, Garnett led by example by scoring 26 points and grabbing 14 rebounds as the Celtics […]

Following a last place finish in the 2006-07 season, the Celtics overhauled the roster. By adding superstars Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to join Paul Pierce – forming a new Big Three in Boston – the team completed one of the most stunning turnarounds in NBA history. Combined with Rajon Rondo and Kendrick Perkins, the […]

Celtics big man Shaquille O’Neal posed with a fan during the team’s visit to Boston Children’s Hospital on December 7, 2010. The Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation has long partnered with the medical center, sponsoring events such as holiday parties with players and the hospital’s annual dinner and auction called Champions for Children’s. O’Neal joined Ray […]

Before the 2007-08 NBA World Championship season, the Celtics played preseason games in Europe. Hoping to duplicate those good feelings, Coach Doc Rivers and his team went back across the pond before the 2012-13 season to tour Italy and Turkey. In what would be Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett’s final season with the team, the […]

Bobbleheads have a history that go back centuries to religious art. “Nodders” became popular baseball collectables in the 1960s before modern bobbleheads came into fashion in the late 1990s. By 2003, the Celtics teamed up with Southwest Airlines on a series of bobbleheads starting with Paul Pierce and Red Auerbach. Soon bobbleheads of Doc Rivers, […]

Marcus Smart was all smiles when he accepted the 2021-22 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award, becoming the first guard to win since Gary Payton in 1996. Smart was also the first Celtics player to be named DPOY since Kevin Garnett in 2008. “This is an honor and, literally, me and my teammates […]