Boston Celtics Rumors & News

Boston Globe "Celtics guard Terrence Williams was arrested Sunday after allegedly making threats to the mother of his child while brandishing a gun, police said. The Kent (Washington) Reporter reports that police are investigating a domestic violence case involving Williams. At about 1:55 p.m., police were..." May 20

Boston Herald "He’s not the best Celtic. He played just 36 NBA minutes this past season, and there’s no guarantee he’ll find any playing time next season either. Yet most of the questions regarding an individual on the C’s roster from other clubs to a reporter at the pre-draft workouts were about Fab..." May 20

Boston Herald "The Celtics still don’t know whether Kevin Garnett will be playing basketball next season, but if he does, the veteran is obviously hoping offseason rest will solve the left foot and ankle problems that dogged him for a part of this past season. President of basketball operations Danny Ainge..." May 18

Boston Herald "Executives from around the NBA are understandably reluctant to talk much about the Celtics’ current situation. All of them know they, too, may one day find themselves between the proverbial rock and hard place where the Shamrock AC now resides. Given the opportunity to speak off the attributed..." May 18

Boston Herald "Doc Rivers wasn’t at the NBA pre-draft combine as workouts commenced yesterday, but nagging media types have been advised to not read anything into that. According to Danny Ainge, there has already been entirely too much “reading into” by Celtics reporters and followers regarding Rivers’..." May 17

Boston Herald "No, Danny Ainge hasn’t yet spoken to Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett about their plans for next season — though, in the case of Pierce, the Celtics are the ones needing to make the first decision. As of now, however, it seems as if the club is setting up the equipment for the most serious..." May 17

NESN "Having already lost one key member of the front office who probably did not get as much public credit as he deserved, the Celtics managed to avoid losing a second member of their successful front office this offseason. Mike Zarren, who has been believed to be a serious candidate for the general..." May 17

NESN "As if there was any real doubt, one of the best coaches in the NBA will continue to stalk the sideline for the Celtics next season. Doc Rivers will return for an 10th season as the Celtics’ head coach, team president of basketball operations Danny Ainge confirmed to Gary Washburn of The Boston..." May 16

Boston Herald "Doc Rivers is off on a golf course somewhere, pondering his future with the Celtics and asking for time to think. But that hasn’t stopped the Celtics coach from taking regular part in the team’s plans for next year, according to president of basketball operations Danny Ainge. “I talk to Doc..." May 15

Boston Herald "As far back as last year, when Rajon Rondo was named to the NBA’s all-defensive second team for the second time — he was a first-teamer in 2010 and ’11 — the Celtics point guard wasn’t even considered the best defensive guard on his own team. That informal honor belonged to Avery Bradley, who..." May 14

MassLive.com "Projected No. 1 pick Nerlens Noel, born in Everett, calls Kevin Garnett his favorite basketball player and the Boston Celtics his most beloved team. Once asked who he's most looking forward to meeting in the NBA, Noel answered Garnett. Told to be careful what he wishes for, Noel added that he will..." May 14

MassLive.com "Those close to Paul Pierce believe he will not return to the Boston Celtics next season, according to CSNNE sideline reporter Greg Dickerson – and Pierce might think his days in green are done, as well. "I don't think they will (bring Pierce back)," Dickerson said Sunday on CSNNE. "And I know..." May 14

Boston Herald "Chris Wilcox is a free agent for the second consecutive offseason, and he’d rather not change his basketball address. He would love to be a Celtic next season. But at this stage of his career and life, the 31-year-old big man would settle for being Chris Wilcox again. After being “ready” for..." May 13

CLNS Radio "Before the Boston Celtics won the championship in 2008 (after the team's President of Basketball Operations Danny Ainge brought Kevin Garnett in a blockbuster trade as well as Ray Allen to the team) the last title the team won was of course in 1986. Although the team contended for a title for..." May 12

Boston Herald "As NBA general managers go, Danny Ainge is a tinkerer. Though he held onto the current Celtics era longer than anyone anticipated — remember that he would have brought back Ray Allen last summer if the guard was willing — Ainge can’t keep his hands off the engine. All parts are in play. And..." May 12

Boston Globe "The misguided among us who are still lamenting the distant swap of more or less Kendrick Perkins for Jeff Green will surely disagree. But as the season and possibly an era ended against the Knicks Friday night, the player the Celtics desperately required from that infamous trade was not the..." May 12

Boston Herald "Terrence Williams headed quickly back home to Seattle once the Celtics season was over. And while he’s hoping the club picks up its option on him for next season and he gets to return, the February acquisition has to be enjoying having his head in one city for a while. From the Guangdong..." May 10

WEEI Boston "On his final weekly appearance on Salk & Holley of the 2012-13 NBA season, Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge called the recent Stephen A. Smith rumors “silly,” indicated Doc Rivers and Kevin Garnett will return next season, Rajon Rondo should be back for training camp and Paul..." May 10

Boston Herald "As we seek to learn which way the waves will break for the Celtics in this offseason, we find it interesting that certain myths have become, at least to some folks, reality. The popular one from a few months ago — that the Celts would be better without Rajon Rondo — has been pronounced deceased..." May 09

Boston Herald "Danny Ainge has stood here each of the last four seasons. The Celtics president of basketball operations’ choices date back to the summer of 2010, when coach Doc Rivers signed a one-year contract extension and followed up with a five-year extension the following spring. Paul Pierce signed a..." May 08

Boston Herald "During a 21⁄2-week stretch that started when Rajon Rondo tore his anterior cruciate ligament on Jan. 25 in Atlanta, three Celtics players went down with season-ending injuries. Rondo, Jared Sullinger (back surgery) and Leandro Barbosa (knee surgery) were gone in the blink of an eye, and the..." May 07

Boston Herald "He was 49 years old and coming off a 56-win season, his fourth straight year with at least 50 wins. His son Austin was on his way to Duke for one season, and the television networks were on their way to his Orlando home with piles of cash and promises of two-day work weeks. Doc Rivers had been..." May 07

NESN "Feel free to take this with a grain of salt, but Stephen A. Smith is hearing rumors of a blockbuster trade between the Celtics and Clippers. The deal that Smith brought up on First Take would reportedly send Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Clippers for Blake Griffin, Eric Bledsoe, DeAndre..." May 07

Boston Herald "Danny Ainge isn’t placing much stock into what his coach and players said in the afterburn of the Celtics’ playoff elimination last Friday night. And, amid one report that a deal with the Clippers that may include Doc Rivers is being tossed about in NBA circles (he got a good laugh at that..." May 07

Boston Herald "The Celtics will do what they can to reconfigure their roster this summer and begin next season with a team they believe can be competitive. But that most likely won’t be enough. As the Celts learned this year, what your rotation looks like in April and May can be radically different than..." May 06

Boston Herald "Over the last month, Courtney Lee learned a lot about keeping his chin up. He’s due to be paid roughly $16.4 million over the next three seasons by the Celtics, but there’s a difference between financial security and rotational security. Right when the Celtics seemingly could have used his..." May 06

CSN New England "The futures of Doc Rivers, Kevin Garnett, and Paul Pierce are uncertain right now, but former Celtics great Cedric Maxwell thinks they aren't coming back. Maxwell sat down with CSNNE's Mike Felger on Sports Sunday to discuss the future of the Celtics. "My hope is that all three of these guys..." May 06

Boston Globe "It was a disappointing season for Jason Terry. He had two great performances in the playoffs, but those were aberrations. The 35-year-old guard averaged 10.1 points, his lowest figure since his rookie season, when he averaged 8.1. Terry can talk his way into and out of most anything, but he..." May 05

CSN New England "Has Celtics captain Paul Pierce played his final game for the Green? Pierce, who'll turn 36 in October, said after the Celtics' season-ending 88-80 playoff loss to the Knicks on Friday that he wanted to play somewhere next season. Asked if it would be in Boston, he said: "That's up to Danny..." May 05

WEEI Boston "Jason Terry knew it wouldn’t be easy beating the Knicks four straight games. And down 26 with under 10 minutes left in Game 6, he knew it would be nearly impossible. But that didn’t keep Boston from putting a huge scare into the Knicks before New York advanced to the second round of the..." May 04

Boston Herald "Doc Rivers has always pulled Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce together, and in another age Ray Allen, to schedule a season-ending meeting. Last night the Celtics coach gestured his two oldest vets over to the side, and made preliminary plans to talk about the future. But never has the future..." May 04

Boston Herald "It was as if something had clicked in Avery Bradley’s head and body at the same time. The player that was deemed as “The Savior” on the defensive end at the beginning of the season looked lost in the first five games, and the first three quarters last night, of this first-round series with the..." May 04

NESN "Paul Pierce never gives himself a pass. After a dispiriting loss to the Knicks in Game 6 on Friday, when the Celtics’ furious comeback from a 26-point deficit in the fourth quarter fell short, Pierce turned a harsh spotlight on his own play in the playoff series. “I didn’t perform at my best,”..." May 04

Boston Herald "The run was brilliant, stirring and nearly successful — the one where the Celtics scored 20 points in a 3:37 fourth-quarter span last night. However, the fact it came after they saw fit to get themselves 26 points in arrears to the Knicks helped complete the trip to a critical conclusion. “The..." May 04

Bergen Record "Carmelo Anthony rose up at the top of the key, lining up a three-point attempt, the score far closer than the Knicks anticipated, and with the weight of 18 straight misses beyond the arc in the series on his shoulders. But Anthony’s confidence was pure — impervious to the chants of the crowd at..." May 04

New York Post "It may be Chris Copeland Time again. Mike Woodson said 3-point specialist Steve Novak likely won’t play tonight in Game 6 after suffering back spasms that kept him out of the second half of Wednesday’s Game 5 loss to the Celtics. That means the Knicks rookie could finally be out of the..." May 03

CSN New England "Jason Terry rose to his feet quickly after J.R. Smith's elbow connected with his chin in Game 3. Since then, this Boston-New York playoff series hasn't been the same. The Celtics, seemingly flat-lined and ready for the postseason graveyard, have shown the kind of fight that few thought they..." May 03

Boston Herald "The New York Knicks insist they remain confident, but their tone has shifted in the last few days. When they held a 3-0 series lead, the Knicks seemed to dismiss the Celtics as little more than a speed bump en route to the second round, which the franchise hasn’t reached since 2000. But with..." May 03

New York Post "The Knicks can still make this a Black Friday for the Celtics with a win tonight. The Knicks try to win their first-round Eastern Conference series in six games, try to get their dynamic duo of Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith safely into the second round and ease the panic foaming across..." May 03

New York Post "Now Knicks fans have another reason to hate Kevin Garnett. Forget the January flare-up with Carmelo Anthony. Overlook the 52 rebounds he grabbed for the Celtics in the last three games of the Eastern Conference first-round series. Garnett has done something that already has impacted the series..." May 03

North Jersey "The words the Knicks mouthed Thursday afternoon were all the right ones. There was an insistence that the focus was solely on basketball, the distractions were for others to ruminate on. The confidence was pure. But the reality for the Knicks is that no matter what words were spoken, the panic..." May 03

Boston Herald "Of all the deep and dark strategic and psychological angles to be explored as the Celtics head into Game 6 against the Knicks tonight, there is a rather basic human reflex that unfolded among three old guys with not too many gunfights left. When the future is uncertain, one tends to cling to..." May 03

Boston Herald "The temperature drops and the light fades on the outskirts of Doc Rivers’ radar. Ask Courtney Lee, who has slid off the grid. Ask the seldom-used big man tandem of Chris Wilcox and Shavlik Randolph. Ask Terrence Williams, who abruptly became part of the solution during the Celtics’ Game 5 win..." May 03

Boston Herald "Jordan Crawford has changed his story. When asked by the Herald about his role in Wednesday’s night’s postgame jabber match with the Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony and Raymond Felton, the Celtics guard said, “Not me. You’d better go talk to someone who was there.” Based on Crawford’s Twitter account..." May 03

New York Post "There is only one way for the narrative to change for Carmelo Anthony, and it’s a simple task: win tonight. It doesn’t matter if he shoots 14-for-16 or 4-for-26, doesn’t matter if he carries the Knicks or goes along for the ride. The specifics will be worked out later. This is what can..." May 03

Boston Globe "In the wake of two straight losses after going up, three games to none, the Knicks still seem confident that they can win a game and close out the Celtics, even with the series heading back to Boston for Game 6. And yet the Knicks are talking about having two games to finish off Boston -- not..." May 02

Boston Globe "Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony said his shoulder was OK after getting tangled with Kevin Garnett in the fourth quarter of Wednesday's 92-86 loss to the Celtics. "I guess he was trying to take my arm away," Anthony said of Garnett. "I got kind of tangled up with him, kind of yanked my shoulder a..." May 02