Paul Pierce RUMORS & NEWS

NESN "Well, this is a perfect storm of craziness. Not only is Doc Rivers considering a “change” after nine years as the Celtics’ head coach, according to a report on Wednesday, but he and the Clippers now reportedly have “mutual interest” that has Rivers “highly intrigued” about the prospect of coaching..." June 14

CSN New England "Danny Ainge can only chuckle when asked about the latest round of rumors involving the Celtics, who are reportedly "likely" to buy out Paul Pierce's contract for $5 million. "Nothing surprises me," Ainge told CSNNE.com. "I'll just let speculation continue." While no decision on Pierce's..." May 28

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

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 "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

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

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

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

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

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 "Paul Pierce has been saying for a couple of years now that he has to evaluate after each season whether he wants to go on. This time around, he appears to have decided he’d like to play at least one more year. However, he knows that, because of circumstances, it may not be in a Celtics uniform,..." May 02

Newsday "It's hard to imagine things getting more grueling for Raymond Felton than they were in Game 1 of the Knicks-Celtics series. Without point guard Pablo Prigioni in the lineup, Felton was forced to play 43 minutes Saturday in the Knicks' 85-78 win at Madison Square Garden. The good news for Felton..." April 22

Boston Herald "Elite basketball players live in a shrunken, somewhat manufactured social circle. Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett started their friendship as teens. Pierce was a slightly chubby 16-year-old from Inglewood, Calif. Garnett was the longest, leanest, most talented 17-year-old in the country, and he..." April 19

Boston Herald "Almost nine months have passed since Ray Allen joined the Miami Heat, and Paul Pierce still hasn’t talked to his former teammate. As Allen discovered during Miami’s March 18 visit to the Garden, Celtics fans can be an aggressively unforgiving lot. Pierce doesn’t consider his own feelings..." April 13

Boston Globe "Their rivalry has often featured heavyweights throwing haymakers, but Friday’s game will be nothing more than a slap fight. The fourth and final regular-season matchup between the Celtics and Heat, teams that loathe each other to the core, may be without most of the players who often make their..." April 12

Boston Globe "Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce took the trip with the Celtics to Miami, but as promised, coach Doc Rivers announced neither would play Friday against the Miami Heat to rest sore ankles. Knowing he may make this decision, Rivers asked reporters after Wednesday's loss to the Brooklyn Nets whether..." April 11

NESN "Brandon Bass has seldom had a play called for him in the NBA, and that is OK with him. The soft-spoken power forward usually has very little to say about himself or his team, whether after wins or losses, 20-point performances or forgettable duds, playoff games or preseason contests. Bass’ play..." April 08

Boston Herald "Re-integration was largely painless. Kevin Garnett, back from an eight-game absence, played only 25 minutes, and Paul Pierce, after missing two of the previous three games, played slightly more at a manageable 30 minutes. The result was an ironic balance from a team that recently has been at..." April 08

WEEI Boston "Just over 12 hours after a humbling loss to the Cavaliers at the Garden, the Celtics got a boost at practice in Waltham when Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce returned from separate foot injuries. Garnett has missed the last eight games due to inflammation from bone spurs in his left ankle. The..." April 06

Boston Herald "Those growing concerns of Paul Pierce missing Monday’s game against Minnesota and his absence at the Celtics morning shootaround yesterday can be shelved, especially in a season with so many injuries to this team. Pierce, listed as a game-time decision before last night’s 98-93 victory over the..." April 04

Boston Globe "Paul Pierce had a very good reason, it turns out, to miss Monday’s game. While the Celtics were in Minnesota, Pierce was home in Boston with his wife, who was about to give birth. And at 8:21 p.m. Tuesday, the couple’s first son, Prince Paul Pierce, entered this world. “In the next 18..." April 04

Boston Globe "Prince Paul Pierce, who joined the population Tuesday night, is doing just fine, said the newborn's father, Celtics captain Paul Pierce. "He's doing good," Pierce said before practice Thursday. "It's just the third one, so, still going for five or six more." Aren't there lofty expectations..." April 04

Boston Herald "As expected, Paul Pierce didn’t play last night. As not so expected, it had nothing to do with the ankle he twisted in the first quarter of Sunday’s loss in New York or the desire to get him rest. Pierce didn’t accompany the team here, instead going back to Boston to deal with a personal..." April 02

Boston Herald "Paul Pierce may be captain of the Celtics, but in spirit and general work ethic, the man is very much a hockey player. He spent the latter part of last night’s game on the bench icing his right ankle, but he should have spent another bag or two on his back after the way he tried to carry the..." April 01

Boston Herald "As expected, Paul Pierce isn’t in the lineup for tonight’s game. As not so expected, it had nothing to do with the ankle he twisted in the first quarter of Sunday’s loss in New York or the desire to get him rest. Pierce didn’t accompany the team here, instead going back to Boston to deal with a..." April 01

CSN New England "Paul Pierce suffered a right ankle injury against the New York Knicks and will be a game-time decision for Monday night's game against Minnesota. "I turned it in the first quarter," Pierce said. "Just a little sore. It shouldn't be a problem." But with just a handful of regular season games..." April 01

Boston Herald "The Celtics haven’t been so good at doing themselves favors lately. That’s why last night could be considered rare. Faced with a currently sixth-seeded Atlanta team one rung up the playoff ladder, the Celtics cut the distance to 11⁄2 games with their 118-107 win over the Hawks. On a night..." March 30

Boston Herald "Saturday night’s near-win in Memphis may have worked wonders for the Celtic scrubs who cut a Grizzlies lead from 21 points to two in the last eight minutes. But for the veterans straining to pull the Celtics out of their four-game losing streak with only 13 games left in the season, no amount..." March 25

Boston Herald "A few minutes after last night’s 100-74 Celtics loss to the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Pierce walked from the visitors dressing room wearing a hoodie and sunglasses. “The ghost is out,” Pierce said. With their captain given the night off to rest, the C’s played as if they didn’t have a ghost of..." March 13

NESN "There was no brilliantly devised play call this time. If the Celtics’ last gut-check victory was an example of Paul Pierce‘s abilities as a $17 million decoy, their latest was a reminder in exactly why Doc Rivers usually puts the ball in this guy’s hands in the clutch. The most polarizing topic..." March 09

Dallas Morning News "The Bank of Cuban nearly cashed in on a 10-time All-Star and NBA Finals MVP. According Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski, a three-team deal between Dallas, Boston and Atlanta that would have sent Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce to the Mavericks fell through just before the deadline." March 09

Boston Globe "Avery Bradley is giving opponents an increasingly more difficult choice as he lines up with Kevin Garnett on the pick-and-roll. Right now, every opposing defender is going to blanket Garnett, trying to stymie his twisting, turning post move that usually results in a swished jumper. On Tuesday..." March 06

NESN "There was sadness, not madness, on Causeway Street when March dawned in 2012. It was fitting that the month’s birthstone is bloodstone, since the Celtics seemed to be hemorrhaging all over the parquet floor. The Celtics’ record was an even .500 after the team had just fought back from a five-game..." March 02

Celtics Blog "Time is ticking down on the game clock, and Boston still trails. They could've been in a different position if they would've just hit some shots earlier in the game. Instead, they have to resort to Old Faithful. Old because, well, he's old by basketball standards. And faithful because he's been..." February 26

Boston Herald "He began the five-game road trip in Denver with a 2-for-14 shooting night, vowing afterward to be better. Last night Paul Pierce ended his largely uneven journey with a Tour de Truth performance, saving his best for last in the Celtics’ 110-107 overtime victory against the Jazz. After..." February 26

CSN New England "Moments before the Rose Garden floor was flooded with streamers (I guess that's what happens when you win after losing seven straight), the ball was in the hands of Blazers point guard Damian Lillard after he missed a short lay-up. The Celtics didn't bother to foul him. At that point,..." February 25

NESN "This was a tough way to go out. If the Celtics somehow trade away Paul Pierce or Kevin Garnett prior to Thursday’s trade deadline, their final game in green will not be a fond memory. The Celtics’ underwhelming effort in Los Angeles on Wednesday was indicative of all their troubles without a lead..." February 21

NESN "Paul Pierce still seems likely to stay put in Boston, but that is not stopping other teams from trying. The Brooklyn Nets, who reportedly were close to acquiring Pierce in a trade last season when the team was in New Jersey, have made another offer for the Celtics captain. The Nets offered Kris..." February 21

New York Post "When Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov returns to watch his team play in Brooklyn tomorrow, will he see any new players on his team? That’s the question that remains as the NBA approaches today’s trade deadline, and one that had the Nets smack in the middle of the annual rumor mill as they prepared..." February 21

CSN New England "Having spent his entire 14-plus seasons with one franchise could easily create a sense of comfort that being traded happens -- just not to me. But Paul Pierce isn't that naive -- not now, not ever. So while maintaining that he wants to finish out his career as a Boston Celtic, Pierce knows..." February 21

Boston Herald "These are not the bad old days when Paul Pierce had to play out of his sneakers to win a game. (Pause while Celtics fans breathe a collective “Amen.”) But after a 97-90 loss to the Nuggets last night, the captain was well aware that 2-for-14 from the floor isn’t going to cut it..." February 20

NESN "The Celtics could be headed for a seismic shakeup, and it could be happening very soon. Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski has a nugget-filled post about the Celtics and their trading prospects with the Thursday trade deadline looming. While he reports a potential deal that would send Kevin Garnett..." February 20

CSN New England "Paul Pierce has kept his discomfort under wraps. The Boston Celtics captain said Wednesday night he has been playing this season with a pinched nerve in his neck. Pierce has been battling through pain and stepping up while three teammates went down for the season. "It's something that's..." February 14