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If you want to know the power of these Boston Celtics, look no further than the hundreds in line Thursday at a local restaurant, hoping and waiting for a chance to see Al Horford. "It is Al Horford, how could I miss it,?" asked Walter Estrade, who got in line at 7:15 a.m. Thursday with his brother and sister. "It is a hot day, it is always worth it for Al Horford." In fact, hundreds waited on Boylston Street in a line stretching down the block. Horford was mobbed as...

What do Reggie Miller, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, John Stockton and Steve Nash all have in common? These Hall of Famers lead a long list of players who never won an NBA championship. Al Horford, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown checked their names off that list with the Boston Celtics’ 2024 NBA Finals triumph over the Dallas Mavericks. Horford had ranked second in NBA history with 185 playoff games without a championship, trailing only Malone, but he reached the mountaintop in his 186th postseason contest. Tatum and Brown, meanwhile, had...

The Boston Celtics are back in Massachusetts after spending a night in Miami to celebrate their NBA-record 18th championship.The Celtics flew to Miami at around noon Tuesday, just 13 hours after they clinched the title with a win in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Monday night.The team's return flight landed at Hanscom Field airport in Bedford shortly after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla was seen carrying the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy off the plane. He then put the trophy in the backseat of his vehicle as reporters...

Boston is still bleeding green after the Celtics won the NBA Finals Monday night. The team took the series in five games after a 106-88 win against the Dallas Mavericks. The championship win, 16 years to the day after their last, came after a dominant 3-0 run by the Celtics in the Finals before the Mavericks bested them in Game 4 in a devastating loss. But in true Boston sports fashion, the Celtics returned to TD Garden for Game 5 more determined than ever, and it paid off — with...

Alex Cora on the Celtics: Boston teams are frequently some of each other’s biggest supporters. This was proven true once again following the Celtics’ latest championship win, as each of the local teams shared their congratulations on social media. On Tuesday, Red Sox manager Alex Cora took time to offer his thoughts on the Celtics’ success. “I want to congratulate the Celtics ownership group, Brad [Stevens] and Joe [Mazzulla] and the players,” Cora said prior to the Red Sox win over the Blue Jays on Tuesday, per Pete Abraham of...

BOSTON — In 2008, the Celtics ended a 22-year championship drought led by a Big 3. Sixteen years later, they did it again following the play of a dynamic duo. When Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum were drafted third overall in back-to-back years in 2016 and 2017, they were almost instantly branded with the hopes of a franchise that was desperately chasing its elusive 18th championship. Along the way they’ve endured criticism about their individual play and questions about whether two players with similar skill sets could co-exist. They answered...

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown have played 107 playoff games together since their respective arrivals in Boston. That’s more than a full NBA season. A longtime star pairing like that is rare in the modern NBA, especially when it doesn’t produce the ultimate desired result of a championship. And as the Celtics’ headlining duo saw season after season after season end in either the Eastern Conference finals (four times for Brown, three for Tatum) or NBA Finals (the six-game loss to Golden State in 2022), calls to break them up...

Champagne bottles were popped, cold beers were cracked, and cigars were lit in the Celtics locker room after Boston crushed the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday night to capture the franchise’s 18th championship. “These guys go in the history books and they go in the record books,” Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck told Boston 25 Sports Director Butch Stearns as the team celebrated around them. “Best offense ever, great defense. People don’t understand -- to play defense like that is exhausting. To then have the...