Jayson Tatum recorded his first career playoff triple-double to lead Boston past Miami, the team that spoiled the Celtics' NBA Finals dreams last year.
By KYLE HIGHTOWER BOSTON — The Celtics spent the days leading up to their playoff matchup with Miami talking about wanting to match the physicality of a team that would be looking for an edge without star Jimmy Butler. Boston did that and then some. Jayson Tatum notched his first career playoff triple-double with 23 […]
Jayson Tatum notched his first career playoff triple-double with 23 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists to lead Boston past the Miami Heat 114-94 on Sunday to open their first-round playoff series.
The Los Angeles Lakers (46-35) rallied during the fourth quarter to defeat the Memphis Grizzlies (27-54) 123-120 on Friday at FedExForum. The Lakers won for the ninth time in their last 10 games.
Mookie Betts continued his opening-month rampage with a career-high-tying five hits, and a struggling bullpen closed the game with six scoreless innings to lead the Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the Washington Nationals in front of a sellout crowd of 52,718 at Chavez Ravine on Tuesday night. Betts doubled twice, singled three times, scored twice and had two RBIs, and is now batting .388 with a 1.190 on-base-plus-slugging percentage, six homers, five doubles, 18 RBIs and 22 runs in 20 games, but...
Dylan Guenther celebrated his 21st birthday by scoring once in a career-best, four-point performance and Logan Cooley scored the overtime winner in a two-point outing to lead the visiting Arizona Coyotes to a 4-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday. On a day when reports circulated of a potential plan that would see the Coyotes sold and relocated to Salt Lake City, Vladislav Kolyachonok collected one goal and one assist and Josh Brown also scored for Arizona (34-40-5, 73 points)....
The quote is from Jim McGuinness. He was speaking under the main Healy Park stand after the McKenna Cup final in January. Derry had just retained the trophy with a 0-12 to 0-6 victory in a game that saw Brendan Rogers, Oisin Gallen and Patrick McBrearty all red carded. Neither team was at full strength and it was pre-season but those last four words are the reason some home fans this weekend will be shuffling slightly more uneasily than they normally would before throw-in these days. The tables...
Coby White's 42 points (15-21 FG) is the second-most points scored in an NBA Play-in game and helped set up a matchup with Miami Friday night with a spot in the Playoffs on the line.
Joseph Paintsil and Diego Fagúndez scored two minutes apart late in the second half to spark the Galaxy to a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night in a match that featured three Japanese-born starters for the first time in league history. Vancouver goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka as well as Galaxy defenders Miki Yamane and Maya Yoshida all started and accomplished a feat not seen in the league's 31 years. Neither team scored in the battle between the top two teams in the Western...
Reo Hatate scored his first goal for six months and Adam Idah was on the
Payton Pritchard was one rebound short of a 38-point triple-double in the victory. The NBA's top team awaits an Eastern Conference play-in tournament winner next Sunday.
Payton Prichard scored a career-high 31 points and helped the Celtics avoid losing three consecutive games in a season for the first time since 2010-11.