Boston Celtics

Kevin Durant insists he and Kyrie Irving didn’t plan to team up with each other in Brooklyn. The star forward says it just … happened. Apparently, the partnership was NBA free agency’s version of fate. In a recent interview with Yahoo! Sports’ Chris Haynes , Durant explains his friendship with...

So let’s get this straight: LeBron James is being lambasted by the likes of Jason Whitlock and Shannon Sharpe for participating in his son’s AAU team’s pre-game lay-up line and briefly jumping onto the court following an alley-oop from two of his son’s teammates. How weird. Whitlock, a self-...

Upstart NBA talking head Kendrick Perkins was one of the first people who guaranteed Kevin Durant would sign with the Nets in free agency. Nine days before the process began, Perkins declared on ESPN’s “The Jump” Durant would wind up in Brooklyn. While Durant never explicitly told his ex-teammate...

New Celtics center Enes Kanter is one of many professional athletes who uses his platform to talk about social and political issues that are important to him. But unlike his peers, Kanter’s words literally put his family members’ lives in jeopardy, never mind his own. When you phrase it like that,...

Armed with little more than veteran minimum contracts, the Celtics are not positioned to make any more big additions this summer. That could leave them thin in the front court, where they’ve replaced Al Horford with Enes Kanter –– and a mishmash of young unknowns and role players such as Robert...

The Celtics’ newest addition, Enes Kanter, is more than a veteran big man who can finish around the rim. He’s also one of the NBA’s foremost social activists, becoming an enemy of his native Turkey in the process. Kanter, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, regularly denounces the...

It’s been apparent for some time Kyrie Irving likely won’t re-sign with the Celtics this summer. The warning signs added up throughout the winter, culminating in episodes of aloofness and emotional distance, such as when he reportedly refused a team charitable request at the end of the season. In...