Boston Celtics Rumors
Get a free trial Wednesday’s NBA opening week doubleheader on ESPN averaged 1.6 million viewers, down 42% from last year — when coverage featured #1 pick Victor Wembanyama’s debut — but up 5% from 2022. Bucks-Sixers had a 1.0 rating and 1.71 million viewers, down a third from Celtics-Knicks last year (1.5, 2.55M), and the Suns-Clippers nightcap followed with 1.52 million (-49%). Keep in mind both games were absent some key players, including Sixers stars Joel Embiid and Paul George and the Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard.
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Lonnie Walker IV was not included on the Maine Celtics initial training camp roster. The G League Celtics will start training camp this week, ahead of their season opener on November 8.
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Celtics remain undefeated behind Jayson Tatum's 37-point game
Detroit, of all teams, gave Boston the first true test of its nascent title defense, pushing the reigning champs to the brink at Little Caesars Arena. The Celtics squandered a 23-point lead and trailed with less than three minutes remaining before rallying to win 124-118 and remain undefeated on the young season. Jayson Tatum paced Boston with 37 points on 12-for-26 shooting, including 6-for-13 from 3-point range.
Co-star Jaylen Brown struggled to find his shot (6-for-24) but grabbed five fourth-quarter rebounds and was 9-for-10 from the free-throw line, with the final two of his 22 points icing the game in the final minute.
And as far as the NBA goes, the former Celtic has no qualms in declaring the defending champs the team to beat again in ‘24-25. “It’s not because I played for Boston … OK, I’m a little biased … but I do think they have the best team in the league right now.”
The New York Knicks got obliterated Tuesday in their season opener, done in by a deluge of Boston Celtics triples. An NBA record-tying 29 of them, to be exact. That taste was still in the Knicks’ mouths when they took the floor for their home opener Friday night, and the club used it as fuel to drill the Indiana Pacers 123-98 in Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges’s home debut at Madison Square Garden. “Whenever you get your butt kicked on national TV in the NBA, it means you have to step it up,” said wing Josh Hart, one of four New York starters to finish with 20 or more points against Indiana. Bridges and Towns had 21 apiece, while floor general Jalen Brunson finished with a game-high 26. “I loved the way our guys responded,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “The fight we showed was a lot greater.”
