2023 WNBA Rookie of the Year. Photo: WNBA. After sweeping three of the four Rookie of the Month Awards this season so far, it’s no surprise that Indiana Fever center Aliyah Boston is the 2023 WNBA Rookie of the Year. As the most impactful rookie of the season, the top 2023 WNBA Draft pick solidified
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Aliyah Boston said she usually keeps it cool when she faces the star basketball players she grew up watching on television. But her poker face slipped last month. Boston, a rookie power forward and center for the Indiana Fever, was in a close contest against the Las Vegas Aces and she was shoulder to shoulder
The N.B.A.’s Eastern Conference championship trophy had found its way to the visiting locker room at TD Garden on Monday night. Set atop a couple of packing trunks with metallic trim, the trophy — a sterling silver replica of a basketball — was an attraction for the Miami Heat, who had earned it the hard
After the miracle and the madness, Gabe Vincent broke the silence inside the Miami Heat locker room on Saturday night by humming along to “Life Goes On,” a ballad by Ed Sheeran featuring Luke Combs. Most of Vincent’s teammates were long gone by then, bound for their Miami-area homes as they faced the collective challenge
Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart is difficult to miss. His jump shot can be an amusement-park ride. He will try the occasional alley-oop pass from midcourt. He spoke earlier this month about the apparent brutality of a playoff game as a “true dogfight — scratching and clawing, biting, blood, everything.” He dyes his hair green.
April 14 2023 WNBA Draft team grades: Minnesota earns highest mark The draft is one of the most exciting nights on the WNBA calendar. For draftees and their families, it is achievement worthy of much celebration. For fans, it is an event that inspires hopeful imaginings. And for organizations, it is an opportunity to chart
Here’s a recap of the 2023 WNBA Draft: 1) Aliyah Boston (Indiana Fever) WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the words and then it was official. We all expected Boston to go here. She brings elite defense and inside scoring to Indiana. Will she be among the best of the best No. 1 picks of all-time
Here is the pool of players the Indiana Fever will be considering for their 2023 roster: Kelsey Mitchell, starting SG ($206,000) Erica Wheeler, starting PG ($202,154) Victoria Vivians, starting SF ($135,000) Emma Cannon, second PF ($80,000) No. 1 pick (most likely Aliyah Boston), starting C ($74,305) NaLyssa Smith, starting PF ($73,584) Emily Engstler, second SF
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Do the Boston Celtics have the best offense in NBA history? Even in the contest against the Washington Wizards that saw their Most Valuable Player candidate Jayson Tatum take the night off to nurse a sprained ankle back to health, the Celtics ended up hanging 130 points on the Wiz and made it look easy
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The Boston Celtics have signed forward Blake Griffin. Griffin’s Celtics contract is reportedly a one-year deal for the league minimum. Per the Boston Globe, “Griffin, 33, is no longer the explosive athlete who won the 2011 slam dunk championship, and he is a defensive liability. But he has adjusted his game over the years and
With the WNBA Finals and World Cup over, it’s time to take a look back at what each WNBA team did this season and forward at what their offseason goals should be. Going from worst to best, we begin with the Indiana Fever: Fever statistical rankings (per game) 12th net rating (-13.7) 12th scoring (78)
For much of the current era of the Boston Celtics, the team has been on the rise, slowly rebuilding from its last era of contention under Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen to elevate prized draft picks Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Robert Williams III and Marcus Smart to return to a level of play
The WNBA playoffs may still be ongoing, but it’s never too early to start thinking about the WNBA Draft, especially as it pertains to teams that have either already been eliminated from the playoffs or did not make them in the first place. Much can happen between now and the 2023 draft, of course —
The latest episode of the Triple Threat Podcast kicks off with some love for Aliyah Boston, who was nominated for the ESPYs’ “Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports” award, a category that was not aired on the show. While Boston ended up losing the category to Jocelyn Alo of Oklahoma softball, there has been an uproar
BOSTON — With a little more than a minute left in Game 6 of the N.B.A. finals, Celtics Coach Ime Udoka pulled his starters. That meant Jayson Tatum had a minute to sit by himself and feel the weight of disappointment that came with losing. “It hurts,” Tatum said. “Being with this group, the things
The Boston Celtics are in dire straits after losing to Golden State on Monday in Game 5 of the N.B.A. finals, leaving them in a 3-2 deficit as the series shifts to Boston on Thursday. Teams with 3-2 leads in best-of-seven N.B.A. finals have won the championship 39 of 48 times — 81.3 percent. Some
Celtics Here’s what to know. The Celtics and Warriors face off in Game 6 on Thursday. Jim Davis/Globe Staff By The Associated Press, Associated Press June 15, 2022 | 2:00 AM Golden State Warriors (53-29, third in the Western Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (51-31, second in the Eastern Conference) Boston; Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT FANDUEL
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It would be Stephen Curry’s fourth N.B.A. championship, or Jayson Tatum’s first. It would be a comeback story for the ages for Klay Thompson, or a fairy-tale ending to the debut of the first-time head coach Ime Udoka. Much is at stake in the 2022 N.B.A. finals for Golden State and the Boston Celtics, two
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MIAMI — The Boston Celtics are a team of long-distance runners. For years, former Celtics president Danny Ainge employed a consultant that would identify draft picks and free agents’ “brain types” under the belief that certain personality traits made for better players. Ainge and that system are gone, but the Celtics — be it by
A group of mostly 20-something out-of-towners heading to Miami this time of year typically would be called spring breakers. But for our purposes, we’re referring to the Boston Celtics. Their reward for outlasting the Milwaukee Bucks in a grueling seven-game Eastern Conference semifinal series is a date in the conference finals with the No. 1-seeded
There was a time when the Boston Celtics’ season seemed in danger of crumbling into a pile of fine dust. They had a losing record in late January. They were scuffling through a series of injuries. There were questions about whether Jayson Tatum could coexist with Jaylen Brown — was it time for the team
Nets’ Kevin Durant understands why Boston fans despise teammate Kyrie Irving. Before his contract expired in 2019, Irving announced that he would stay with the Celtics. Of course, he then proceeded to sign as a free agent with the Nets on Jul. 6, 2019. When the guard made his final decision, the Boston fanbase felt
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Senior Taylor Soule notched her first 20-point game since Jan. 23 with a season-high 26 to lead the Boston College Eagles past the Pitt Panthers, 69-57, Tuesday night at Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Soule was 10-of-19 from the floor and also had five steals as BC came back from down seven after one.
Did the Boston Celtics “master the Deal Zone” at the 2022 NBA trade deadline? Such is the question posed by Defector’s Chris Thompson in a recent trade deadline roundup article trying to assess how each of the league’s 30 teams did dealing players at a deadline that saw 22 of the 30 clubs in the
In this matchup between Pittsburgh vs Boston College, Pittsburgh will attempt to sweep the Eagles in the season series, something that isn’t easy to do in college basketball. The Eagles have been surging as of late and Pittsburgh has just been decent at best. Let’s take a look at the top college basketball betting picks