New York Knicks: Out Of Town Articles
CelticsBlog (Adam Taylor) —
Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images The Boston Celtics will play two games preseason games in the Middle East next fall. The Boston Celtics will head to Abu Dhabi later this year. They will face the Denver Nuggets in two preseason games on Friday, October 4, and Sunday, October 6, in what could potentially be an NBA Finals rematch. Team president Rich Gotham provided a short...
CelticsBlog (flceltsfan) —
Photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The Celtics look for their league best 12th straight win as they take on the Cavaliers in Cleveland. The Celtics visit the Cavaliers for the third and final game between these two teams this season. The Celtics won the first game 120-112 on 12/12 and they won the 2nd game 116-107 on 12/14. Both of those games...
CelticsBlog (Jack Simone) —
Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images This Boston team is special. A March home game ahead of a three-game road trip. A chance to extend a winning streak following a dominant 9-1 month of February. The result? A complete blowout win. That was March of 2016. A 36-point victory for the soon-to-be 73-9 Golden State Warriors victory. On Sunday afternoon, the Boston Celtics ...
CelticsBlog (Bobby Manning) —
Photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Jaylen Brown led a lethal effort on offense while the Celtics’ motivation and drive to run up the score reflected a marked difference over their December loss to the rival Warriors. BOSTON — The Celtics traveled to San Francisco roughly three months after Joe Mazzulla took over as head coach for their first meeting...
CelticsBlog (Sara Jane Gamelli) —
Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images The Celtics aim to level the series against Golden State after securing their tenth consecutive victory on Friday. Sunday afternoon at the TD Garden, the Boston Celtics (47-12, 28-3 home) will welcome the Golden State Warriors (37-27, 16-12 away) for the final game of their regular season series. The Warriors currently lead 1-0. In...
CelticsBlog (Jeff Clark) —
Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images Help me write more often by giving me ideas to write about I’m going to try to get back in the habit of writing daily posts (within reason). That means I need a lot of topic ideas. So I’m going back to an old reliable trick of the trade. Opening up the mailbag to get questions to react to. Instead of trying to get to all of them in one long post, I’m...
CelticsBlog (Noa Dalzell) —
Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports Tillman has been picking the veteran’s brain in hopes of enjoying a long and successful NBA career. In his first few weeks in Boston, Xavier Tillman has mostly sat back and watched. A natural leader, Tillman became one of the louder voices in a Grizzlies locker room where being 25-years-old and a fourth-year NBA player classified him as a veteran. In...
CelticsBlog (Noa Dalzell) —
David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports It was another well-balanced attack for Boston in which making the right read every time led to a Celtics blowout. “It’s about team for them. You can see that with the ball movement,” Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said after Boston’s win over Dallas. “They’re not worried about who is shooting it.” It’s obvious to the Mavericks coach, it’s obvious...
CelticsBlog (Jack Simone) —
Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Boston is focused on staying focused. The Boston Celtics got bored last season. On January 21, they were 35-12. They then lost three games in a row, kickstarting a rocky 22-13 to end the regular season. After their loss to the New York Knicks on January 26, Joe Mazzulla effectively admitted the Celtics’ lack of focus. ...
CelticsBlog (Bobby Manning) —
Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images Playing catch-up will key both Xavier Tillman and Jaden Springer’s chances of finding rotation minutes later this year. Jaden Springer arrived at Madison Square Garden three hours before game time on Saturday — before even Bus One made its way to the arena. That required his own transportation, and along with assistant coaches Tyler...
CelticsBlog (Jack Simone) —
Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images Joe Mazzulla went into the All-Star break looking for games in which to test improvements, and the 76ers played right into his hand. Joe Mazzulla hates breaks. He said as much before All-Star Weekend. The Boston Celtics coach would rather grind. But while he may hate vacations as much as Dwight Schrute, he made sure to utilize his...
CelticsBlog (Sara Jane Gamelli) —
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Celtics aim for their ninth consecutive victory in their final regular season showdown against their rival. The Boston Celtics (45-12, 26-3 home) aim to secure their ninth consecutive win in their final regular season matchup against the faltering Philadelphia 76ers (33-24, 15-11 away). With only three defeats at the TD Garden this...
CelticsBlog (Trevor Hass) —
Tyrese Maxey drives against Jaylen Brown. | Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports Boston has won eight in a row, while Philly has lost 11 of 15. The Celtics and 76ers are trending in opposite directions. Boston has won eight straight and is playing some of its best basketball of the season. Philadelphia has lost 11 of 15 and is reeling without Joel Embiid. Typically, a matchup between...
CelticsBlog (OliverFox) —
Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images Some see the New York squad as the biggest threat to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference, but nothing about their record or their personnel supports that, so I refuse to live in fear. The Celtics shouldn’t be scared of the New York Knicks . I realize this could age very poorly. I also realize that the Knicks have yet to play the Celtics with...
CelticsBlog (Noa Dalzell) —
Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images In a 116-102 win against the Knicks, Horford ’s four offensive rebounds and winning defensive plays were instrumental. Al Horford’s stat-line in last night’s win against the Knicks won’t jump out – the 37-year-old backup center finished with 10 points and 7 rebounds in 26 minutes of action. But, in his own quiet way, it was yet...