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Celtics make Tacko Fall signing official
Fall, 23, averaged 7.2 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 1.4 blocked shots in five summer league games, and delighted Celtics fans. “Tacko is fun to watch. He makes me laugh,” Celtics president Danny Ainge told MassLive earlier this month. . “Some of the plays he makes are hilarious because you just don’t see them. Guards get […]
Continue readingPredicting college basketball’s top awards: Who will win besides Zion?
On Friday, the top men’s and women’s players will gather in Los Angeles for the College Basketball Awards Presented by Wendy’s, which will air live at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2. During the event, the winners of the Wooden Award (men’s and women’s), along with a variety of prestigious honors, will be named. We’re here […]
Continue readingWith nine players out, Boston Celtics to have minimum eight players for game vs. Miami Heat
While Kemba Walker (knee) and Romeo Langford (wrist) are injured, the other seven players who will be sitting Sunday — guard Javonte Green and Jaylen Brown, forwards Jayson Tatum, Semi Ojeleye and Grant Williams and centers Robert Williams III and Tristan Thompson — all are out Sunday, and likely for some time beyond, because of […]
Continue readingBoston Celtics short-handed for game vs. Miami Heat; Jayson Tatum in protocol, followed by Washington Wizards’ Bradley Beal
In the team’s latest injury report, released around 5:30 p.m. ET Saturday, nine of the team’s 17 players were listed — seven of them because of either positive COVID-19 tests or contact tracing as a result of them, including stars Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. The Washington Wizards, meanwhile, were without Bradley Beal for their […]
Continue readingAmid 1-5 start, Kyle Lowry says reeling Toronto Raptors need to regain their ‘swagger’
“We just need to get a little bit grittier, get a little bit tougher and a little bit nastier, and have a little bit of a swagger to us,” Lowry said. “Right now, we have no swagger to us. “We have nothing. There’s nothing to us. Teams are looking at us like, ‘All right, let’s […]
Continue readingKentucky climbs to No. 5, Baylor still No. 1 in Way-Too-Early Top 25 update for 2020-21
And while it’s not going to be a smooth ride to the Nov. 25 start date, we’re officially less than one month away from the first games. Several things have changed since that initial top 25 — Creighton was No. 2, for example, while San Diego State and Colorado were also ranked before NBA draft […]
Continue readingNBA Continuity Rankings: Which teams hold the edge in the bubble?
Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone, whose team checks in near the top of our list, has high hopes. “Continuity [will] help with trying to create a home-court advantage,” Malone said earlier this month of playing at a neutral-site in Orlando, Florida. “We have guys that have been together for a while, know how to […]
Continue readingNBA restart: Rosters, schedules and standings projections for every team
With scrimmages tipping off Wednesday, here’s our breakdown of every team in Orlando, Florida, including: current seed and most likely playoff seeds (via simulations using ESPN’s Basketball Power Index), remaining strength of schedule (ranked from hardest to easiest), seeding-game schedules (with win projections using BPI), full rosters and projected rotations. We’ve also included the number […]
Continue readingCeltics’ Gordon Hayward (foot) probable against Raptors on Wednesday
Now he’s hoping that, after dealing with the nerve pain for the past week, he’s beginning to get to the root of a problem that has dogged him since the Celtics won in Cleveland on Nov. 5. “It’s been a long time, and something I’d been playing through,” Hayward said after Tuesday’s practice. “I could […]
Continue readingNBA free agents: Team-by-team lists for 2020 and 2021
Nearly half the league hit free agency in 2019. Plenty of stars changed teams, including Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker. The 2020 class won’t have the same star power or the same amount of cap space available, but 2021 will be absolutely loaded. Here’s our team-by-team look at all […]
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