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NBA FINALS GAME 1 | NUGGETS 104, HEAT 93

Denver makes it look easy against Miami in NBA Finals opening victory

Denver trailed for all of 34 seconds and eventually led by as many as 24 in winning the franchise's first-ever NBA Finals game in 47 years.
Gary Washburn | On Basketball

Brad Stevens doesn’t seem concerned about the state of the Celtics. Maybe he should be.

Despite being out-toughed and out-coached by the Heat in a crushing Eastern Conference finals loss, Stevens didn't seem worried on Thursday.
NBA

Nick Nurse becomes the latest coach to chase an NBA championship in Philadelphia

The Sixers haven’t reached the Eastern Conference finals since 2001 at least in part because of Nurse, whose Toronto Raptors knocked out Joel Embiid and the 76ers on their way to the championship in 2019.

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Brad Stevens won’t address a super-max extension but says, ‘We want Jaylen to be here’
Jaylen Brown, of course, is eligible for a five-year, $295 million deal, and Stevens also called him "a big part of us moving forward."

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Joe Mazzulla gets strong backing from Brad Stevens and will get to fortify his coaching staff
Calling Mazzulla "a terrific leader," the Celtics president of basketball ops praised the work the rookie coach did after taking over on very short notice.

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Everything the Celtics do this offseason should be framed around what is best for Jayson Tatum

Sure he has his flaws, but Tatum is the franchise player — it's not a 1A-1B situation with Jaylen Brown.
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Brad Stevens on Jaylen Brown, Grant Williams, roster changes, and other takeaways

Brad Stevens, the Celtics’ president of basketball operations, spoke with the media three days after Boston’s season ended in the Eastern Conference finals.
Reporter Roundtable

How did two No. 8 seeds get here, and other major talking points about the NBA and NHL finals

Reporters Nicole Yang and Conor Ryan discussed a range of topics surrounding the two seven-game series that begin this week and make their predictions.
Tara Sullivan

Jaylen Brown had a nightmarish Game 7 — but the Celtics should still give him the super-max deal

It won't be easy, but the Celtics should keep him next to Jayson Tatum and give them the chance to push through that championship door.
NBA

Report: Pistons hire Monty Williams as coach on six-year deal

The Suns fired Williams two-plus weeks ago.
Gary Washburn | On basketball

Favorites in NBA Finals? Don’t ask. Only mutual respect between Nuggets and Heat.

Game 1 is Thursday in the altitude of Denver, something Heat coach Erik Spoelstra refused to discuss.
NBA

Draymond Green says he enjoys seeing ‘rude’ Celtics fans suffer

Celtics fans hurled insults throughout the 2022 NBA Finals at Green, who made the comments on his podcast following Boston's Game 7 loss to Miami.
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What’s the future for Jaylen Brown? Grant Williams? Brad Stevens and the Celtics have some decisions to make.

There will be reshuffling at the bottom of the roster. And the coaching staff will be fortified. Let's take a look at the retooling we could expect this offseason.
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Game 7 of Celtics-Heat scored big in the ratings for TNT

The game averaged 11.9 million viewers, the network’s third-most watched NBA game ever and its most-watched Eastern Conference finals game.
Gary Washburn I On basketball

The Celtics need to make changes in the offseason, but what kind of changes?

Brad Stevens and the brass can’t run it back with the same roster and hope for different results.
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Miami’s role players — particularly Caleb Martin — were difference-makers in this series

Martin shot 60.2 percent from the field and 48.9 percent from behind the arc — ridiculously impressive numbers.
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Joe Mazzulla’s insistence on living and dying by the 3-pointer was not a championship formula for these Celtics

Their stubbornness in sticking with that strategy proved to be their undoing. They are not Golden State East.

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Peter Abraham | On Baseball

If the Red Sox lose a resurgent Chris Sale again, where does the rotation go from here?

Sale was 3-0 with a 2.42 ERA over his last four starts, until Thursday spelled trouble for the lefthander once more. 1 hour ago

WNBA | SUN 89, LYNX 84

Alyssa Thomas smashes franchise assist record in Connecticut Sun victory

Thomas passed Lindsay Whalen’s single-game mark of 13 for the team record before finishing two shy of Courtney Vandersloot’s WNBA record of 18. 1 hour ago

NBA FINALS GAME 1 | NUGGETS 104, HEAT 93

Denver makes it look easy against Miami in NBA Finals opening victory

Denver trailed for all of 34 seconds and eventually led by as many as 24 in winning the franchise's first-ever NBA Finals game in 47 years. 1 hour ago

THURSDAY'S SCHOOLS ROUNDUP

Chris Cannuscio helps Marblehead hold off furious rally by Somerville in preliminary-round win of Division 2 baseball tournament

The junior righthander roared triumphantly after striking out the final batter to seal a 13-11 win for the No. 29 Magicians (13-8) over No. 36 Somerville (10-11). 2 hours ago

NFL

Tom Brady talks about returning to Foxborough, his current relationship with Bill Belichick

"I’ve always felt like I’ve been a member of that organization," Brady said of the Patriots. 2 hours ago

Red Sox 8, Reds 2

Red Sox break out in eighth to avoid being swept by Reds, but Chris Sale exits with sore pitching shoulder

Kiké Hernández belted solo homer in the seventh inning that put the Sox ahead, 2-1. He later added a two-run single in the Sox’ six-run eighth. 2 hours ago

BASEBALL

Max Scherzer rips into pitch clock, says umpires want discretion to ‘allow the game to be normal’

Scherzer had praised the clock earlier this season for eliminating dead time, but declared "Why do we have to be so anal about this?" when the between-innings clock denied him a final warmup pitch on Thursday.

MIAA track and field | Meet of Champions

In sweltering conditions, St. John’s Prep’s Nathan Lopez turns up the heat in a record-breaking 2-mile run at the Meet of Champions

The senior broke the tape in 8 minutes, 59.29 seconds, breaking Alberto Salazar's 48-year meet record.