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On the final day of March, after his team had endured a 19-point loss to the New York Knicks -- the second lopsided defeat to their rival in a five-day span -- Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers was asked if he was leery about the prospects of a Boston-...

Hornets rookie guard Austin Rivers reportedly broke a bone in his right hand during Wednesday night's game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

PHOENIX -- Pity the poor traveler who had the adjoining suite next to Kevin Garnett in Phoenix on Friday night. Garnett indulged in a rare night off -- his first of the season -- after coach Doc Rivers asked him to rest his weary legs as Boston vi...

BOSTON -- Don't tell Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers that Thursday's game against the rival Los Angeles Lakers has lost any of its luster because of the two teams' struggles over the first half of the season. "They still wear that same color. And ...

AP Photo/Jae C. HongThe Celtics are still desperately searching for consistency in the 2012-13 campaign.After edging the then-juggernaut Los Angeles Lakers in a mid-February matchup back in 2010, Celtics coach Doc Rivers famously demanded $100 from e...

Celtics coach Doc Rivers often stresses that he pays little attention to the Western Conference because his focus has to be on getting out of the East, but he did chime in Monday morning after the rival Los Angeles Lakers hired Mike D'Antoni as their...

BOSTON -- The Los Angeles Lakers' dismissal of coach Mike Brown on Friday after only five regular-season games resonated all the way to the other coast as Boston's Doc Rivers and Philadelphia's Doug Collins expressed dismay over the quick hook for a ...

Doc Rivers is a candid guy and a very good coach, but I'm not totally buying what he's selling here (via the Boston Herald): Although the Heat occupy his thoughts, Rivers said the current edition of the Celtics wasn't conceived with any one oppone...

Ronald Martinez/Getty ImagesThe Celtics could see Rasheed Wallace again soon ... in a New York Knicks uniform.WALTHAM, Mass. -- With Rasheed Wallace ready to come out of retirement in hopes of joining the New York Knicks, Celtics coach Doc Rivers sai...

New Celtics guard Jason Terry said Tuesday that he's on a mission to 'kill' the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers.

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- Robert Sacre was the final pick of June's NBA draft, No. 60 to the Los Angeles Lakers. As an incoming center, the 7-foot, 260-pound Sacre -- who played for the Canadian national team -- was even expecting to receive some decent...

The Kentucky Wildcats became the first school to have the top two picks and tied a record with six players taken overall in the 2012 NBA draft Thursday night.

The Boston Celtics will play the seventh Game 7 of the Big Three era when they visit the Miami Heat on Saturday night for the deciding game of the Eastern Conference finals.

Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle is one of three NBA head coaches on the newly restructured competition committee announced by the league Wednesday. Carlisle, the current president of the NBA Coaches Association, joins Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers...

Contract disputes are about money. The person seeking the contract always wants more than the person handing out the contract wants to give. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and coach Rick Carlisle might not yet describe this lingering contract s...

Jermaine O'Neal's relationship with the Celtics ended with broken dreams.