The Celtics have nine games remaining before the All-Star break, beginning with Monday night’s home matchup against the Houston Rockets at TD Garden. Included in that span are road games against Boston’s top two Eastern Conference challengers: at Cleveland on Feb. 4 and at the New York Knicks on Feb. 8.

The 2024-25 NBA season is approaching its halfway point and teams are beginning to separate themselves in both conferences. The Cleveland Cavaliers are no exception, holding a 5.5-game lead over the Boston Celtics in the East.

"There's no doubt they're vulnerable," Legler said. "They're vulnerable for a variety of reasons. One, it's how good Cleveland is, like they're legitimately a team that is going to give Boston fits if they play eventually in the conference finals,

Boston Celtics star Kristaps Porziņģis feels the team has lacked the same sharpness it displayed last year, when it conquered the Dallas Mavericks in the

Are the Cleveland Cavaliers ready to dethrone the Boston Celtics as the East's best team? The Celtics and Cavaliers both began the season with scorching hot starts, but Boston has since cooled off to almost a concerning level while Cleveland has kept up winning at nearly the same pace.

Just last season the Boston Celtics were the most dominant team in the league, sporting the best record in the NBA by a long shot and winning the championship.

The Celtics still managed a 122-107 win on Saturday over the Dallas Mavericks, though Porzingis admitted that his side are playing catch-up after last season's success

Atkinson and the Thunder's Mark Daigneault — plus one assistant from each staff — will coach the four teams in the new ASG format.

The Boston Celtics have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball Association of America (BAA -- the league that would become today's NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of Celtics history.

By virtue of clinching the best record in the East, Atkinson has earned a spot as a head coach in the NBA All-Star Game.

Mazzulla says the pressure on the Celtics is coming from comparisons to Cavs and Thunder: "Oh, you're not as good because you're not them."