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Nineteen defending champions won as many games as the Boston Celtics did in this regular season. A dozen of them won another title. The Celtics could not. Not with the 3-1 hole they dug themselves ...

The New York Knicks earned their first Eastern Conference finals berth since 2000 with a 119-81 Game 6 victory over the ...

The New York Knicks closed out the defending champion Boston Celtics to book their ticket to the Eastern Conference Finals ...

The Boston Celtics are still alive against the New York Knicks. The Celtics pulled away to win Game 5, 127-102, on Wednesday ...

BOSTON — In the purported last gasps of the Boston Celtics’ season, of possibly an entire era, blood was everywhere. Josh Hart sat on the ground after taking a Luke Kornet shot to the eye ...

By then, the Celtics’ season was essentially over. Less than two weeks after they began the second round as overwhelming favorites, they were mashed by the Knicks 119-81 in a Game 6 debacle that ...

The Knicks reached the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 25 years and ended the one-year NBA title reign of the ...

NEW YORK — After the Celtics walloped the Knicks in Game 5 of this conference semifinal following Jayson Tatum’s season-ending Achilles’ injury, it briefly ignited new hope. The game was a ...

With Jayson Tatum sidelined by an Achilles injury, the pressure fell squarely on Brown’s shoulders to keep the Celtics’ season alive. After delivering in Game 5, he tried to do it again in ...

With their backs against the wall after losing Jayson Tatum the Boston Celtics, but came up with a gritty performance to beat ...