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 Garne ...

Doc Rivers got a call from President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge to lead the Celtics in a new direction less than a week after parting ways with the Orlando Magic. “He believed in me,” Rivers ...

Boston’s defeat to the New York Knicks in the 2013 NBA Playoffs marked the end of Garnett’s career as a member of the Celtics. Following that final game, Head Coach Doc Rivers said of Garnett, “He’s d ...

The Celtics won only one division championship and never advanced past the Eastern Conference Finals in Paul Pierce’s first nine seasons. When Pierce and the Celtics won the NBA World Championship tit ...

Decked out in holiday gear, Paul Pierce and Doc Rivers joined Santa Claus in passing out gifts at Boston Children’s Hospital on December 6, 2010. Pierce had been active with the hospital for years, re ...

New Head Coach Doc Rivers and Director of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge posed with Team President Red Auerbach during the Celtics photo day in 2005. When the team hired Rivers in 2004, Auerbach sa ...

“Doc turned me into a player that I ended up being,” recalled Paul Pierce on his relationship with Celtics Head Coach Doc Rivers. “He really taught me the game. He challenged you day to day. He could ...

Coach Doc Rivers and Director of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge posed for a photograph after the Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals. It was the franchise’s fir ...

The concept of “ubuntu” in the NBA started with the 2007-08 Celtics and Head Coach Doc Rivers. The Nguni Bantu word means “humanity” and is occasionally translated to “I am because we are.” Kendrick P ...