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The Celtics and Cavaliers last met in playoffs in 2018. This time Boston is the team to beat
BOSTON (AP) — One of the things Celtics forward Jaylen Brown remembers about his time inside the NBA’s Florida bubble in 2020 during the pandemic was his random sightings of Donovan Mitchell. Mitchell, then with the Utah Jazz, seemed to pop up in the common spaces of the bubble...
Riley says Heat aren't sure on a Butler extension. Player availability is a big priority
MIAMI (AP) — If Jimmy Butler wants to see more pay, Pat Riley will want to see more play. And in simple terms, that is the entry point to this offseason for the Miami Heat. Butler is almost certainly going to ask the Heat for a two-year extension this summer — it...
76ers waste another season of Embiid's prime. Will they ever make a run at an NBA championship?
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid gingerly plopped into his seat set to explain yet another season-ending playoff loss, a familiar scene year-after-year for Philadelphia’s oft-injured All-Star center. Embiid, though, wasn’t alone. He usually dissects defeats by himself on the news conference...
Heat rule rookie forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. out of Game 5 vs. Celtics with hip injury
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Heat will be without yet another starter when they face an elimination game in Boston on Wednesday night. Rookie forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. did not travel with the team on Tuesday to Boston for a Game 5 against the Celtics, ruled out with a strained right hip...
Derrick White scores 38, Celtics top Heat 102-88 to take a 3-1 East playoff series lead
MIAMI (AP) — The good news for the Miami Heat is that the Boston Celtics might not be back in South Florida for a few months. And that’s also the bad news for the Heat. Boston now has full control of this Eastern Conference series, with Derrick White scoring a...
Nuggets, Thunder have chances to move into Round 2, and Boston seeks 3-1 lead in Miami
Denver is one win from returning to Round 2. And Oklahoma City is a win away from getting there for the first time since 2016. A pair of first-round series may end on Monday night, when defending champion Denver plays host to the Los Angeles Lakers — the Nuggets lead 3-1 in that...
Celtics lead wire-to-wire in Miami, roll past Heat 104-84 for 2-1 lead in East series
MIAMI (AP) — For two days, the Boston Celtics lamented getting beaten on their home floor. And when they finally got to play again, they let out all the frustration. The result: a defensive masterpiece. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown each scored 22 points to lead a...
Jimmy Butler says he's 'working,' but there's no timetable for his return to the Heat
MIAMI (AP) — Jimmy Butler says he wants to play in the NBA playoffs, though there's no timetable for his return from a sprained MCL. The Miami Heat forward spoke to TNT during a first-quarter stoppage of his team's Eastern Conference first-round game against the Boston Celtics on...
Herro scores 24, Heat hit franchise playoff-record 23 3s to beat Boston and even series 1-1
BOSTON (AP) — The Miami Heat beat Boston with an unprecedented barrage of 3-pointers on Wednesday night to erase the home-court advantage the Celtics worked all season to establish. Tyler Herro had 24 points and 14 assists, hitting six of Miami's 23 3-pointers — the most in a...
Top-seeded Celtics, Thunder expecting to see different versions of Heat, Pelicans in Game 2s
Jaylen Brown wasn’t sure what happened when he saw Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum take a hard foul from the Heat's Caleb Martin and crash to the TD Garden floor late in Boston’s first round series-opening win over Miami on Sunday. “I see a guy go down, I’ve got my guy’s back...
