ESPN's Brian Windhorst ruled out the possibility of the Boston Celtics, or the NBA's 28 other teams, extracting big man Ivica Zubac from the Los Angeles Clipper

Following his first three-game losing streak in two years, Jaylen Brown reiterated a belief he had stated several times before. This was in late October, after a frustrating road loss to the Detroit Pistons. At 0-3, Brown and the Boston Celtics were in an unfamiliar situation. He still wanted to give his young team time.

Dr. Ed Lacerte, who served as the Head Athletic Trainer and Physical Therapist for the Celtics for 30 years, is currently battling acute monocytic leukemia, the team said Monday.

After all, the Celtics are in the early stages of a retooling process. Joe Mazzulla is coaching a roster full of unproven talent, fighting to prove they belong in the league. Interestingly, all three of Boston's young forwards,

The Pistons will face the Boston Celtics on Monday night at TD Garden in their third meeting of the season. The two teams have split the first two matchups, but this one carries added weight for a young Detroit squad that sits at 20–5.

But fast forward to the present, and it is clear that the Celtics are a good team with postseason potential despite those high-profile exits, and Mazzulla is a major part of the reason why given how well he is getting those younger replacements to play this season.

Things don’t get any easier for the Celtics with the top team in the Eastern Conference, the Pistons, in town on Monday night. Detroit had a franchise-record-tying 13-game win streak snapped in its last trip to Boston, when the Celtics prevailed in a nailbiter the day before Thanksgiving.

A team that once could seem a little bloodless has, in the absence of its best player, become scrappy and slightly unpredictable.

Today in Boston Celtics history, Charles Thomas Scott was born in New York City in 1948. Known as "Charlie" to a number of Celtics fans, the New York native broke the color barrier at the University of North Carolina as that famed institution of higher learning rostered their first Black scholarship athlete in history.

Fans in attendance on Dec. 15, 19 and 22 can join the national blood stem cell donor registry by getting their cheeks swabbed.