Celtics control Game One against Cavs thanks to Brown’s 32 points, while Doncic is left to rue Mavs’ poor performance against Thunder. The top-seeded Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder have rolled to convincing victories in their opening NBA playoff series. Eastern Conference top seeds Boston laid down a marker with a 120-95 rout of the fourth-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers at the TD Garden on Tuesday. Oklahoma City, meanwhile, were made to work harder by Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks before finally pulling clear to seal a 117-95 victory in...

Powerful tornadoes and storms swept through southwestern Michigan Tuesday evening, destroying or damaging homes and businesses and injuring several residents – and millions more from northeast Texas to the Carolinas face at least a slight risk of severe weather Wednesday. At least a dozen people were injured at a mobile home park in Pavilion Township following a tornado Tuesday, according to a county official. The township is located in Kalamazoo County, where 15 to 20 people had minor injuries and were transported to two area hospitals, according to the county’s...

May is AAPI Heritage Month , with the inaugural Boston Asian Restaurant Week currently underway. From the dim sum parlors of Chinatown, Malden, and Quincy to the pho shops of Dorchester’s Fields Corner to Allston’s plethora of Korean specialties, the Boston area offers a rich tapestry of restaurants at which to mark the month. The hard part is choosing among them. Here are eight recommendations: The fillings are important, of course they are. But what makes bánh mì truly excellent is the bread, and that is why the sandwiches at...

A US military veteran who admitted he faked being unable to walk for more than 20 years while claiming several hundred thousand dollars in disability benefits has been sentenced to prison time. Christopher Stultz, 49, of Antrim, New Hampshire, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison after receiving more than $660,000 in disability benefits to which he was not entitled, the office of the US attorney for New Hampshire said in a news release. Stultz had pleaded guilty to making false statements by faking the impairment that prevented him...

Tatum’s 100th career playoff game was a dud — an ostensible gift from the Basketball Gods for the Cleveland Cavaliers. It hardly mattered or slowed down the Green. Even with Tatum struggling by his lofty superstar standards, the Celtics pasted the Cavaliers, 120-95, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Tuesday night at TD Garden. The rest of the Eastern Conference teams should swap scouting reports for prayer hymnals. If the Celtics are going to play like this on a night when Jayson Tatum was a mere mortal...

Brown’s 3-point flurry in the fourth allowed the Celtics to pull away from the Cavaliers, 120-95, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Celtics led for the final 40 minutes paced by Brown, who led Boston with 32 points, and Derrick White, who added 25 and seven 3-pointers. With the ball about three-quarters to the basket, Brown turned around and headed back on defense. The ball felt pure coming out of his hands and he was convinced it was a bucket. He was right. His confidence was brimming...

Atlanta Braves designated hitter Marcell Ozuna gestures after driving in the go ahead run with a base hit in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Atlanta. Marcell Ozuna's run-scoring single in the eighth inning gave Atlanta the lead and the Braves beat the Boston Red Sox 4-2 on Tuesday night to snap a three-game losing streak.Boston's Kutter Crawford and Atlanta's Reynaldo López each allowed two runs in a matchup of right-handers with ERA's under 2.00.The Braves were held to...

Kristaps Porzingis’ absence could prove costly for the Celtics if his injury lingers deep into the NBA postseason. But so far, Boston hasn’t missed its unicorn big man. The Celtics demolished the Heat in their first game after Porzingis’ calf strain, then followed that up with a 25-point laugher in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, walloping the Cavaliers 120-95 Tuesday night at TD Garden. Porzingis can thank a strong shift off the bench from backup center Luke Kornet, who delivered what head coach Joe Mazzulla called a “tremendous”...

ATLANTA — It was just a matter of time before Red Sox rookie Justin Slaten suffered real adversity in his first major league season. A blip on the radar was more of an eventuality than a possibility. In the eighth inning Tuesday night in Atlanta, it came. Slaten, who had allowed just two earned runs in the first 19 innings of his major league career, took the loss in Boston’s 4-2 defeat after allowing two runs on three hits as Atlanta broke a 2-2 tie and took a late victory...

Jaylen Brown flipped a long pass from the right block out to Jayson Tatum early in Tuesday’s third quarter. It was the kind of pass, high-arching and hopeful, that finds a home on a Tuesday night in the regular season, but rarely, if ever, in the second round of the playoffs. Sure enough, there was Isaac Okoro, Cleveland’s sharpest defender, swatting Brown’s pass out of the air and into the backcourt. Okoro’s deflection triggered a two-man race, him and Tatum sprinting away from the action. Tatum won, tracking the ball...