Kristaps Porzingis made his season debut on Monday, Nov. 25, against the Los Angeles Clippers. The All-Star center has spent the past five months rehabbing from surgery. Despite his lengthy absence from basketball activities,

Porzingis injured his ankle in Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks and missed the next two games. He returned for Game 5, contributing five points and one rebound in 16 minutes as the Celtics beat Dallas 106-88 to clinch their record 18th title.

While the Cleveland Cavaliers own the NBA’s best record (17-1) many feel the defending champion Boston Celtics are still the team to beat. Improving to 15-3 wit

Jayson Tatum scored 20 points and the Boston Celtics made 22 3-pointers in a 126-94 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night. Payton Pritchard added with 20 points for Boston, which extended its season-high win streak to six games.

Boston survived a chaotic final possession by Minnesota to seal the win in regulation. The post Jaylen Brown leads Celtics over Timberwolves with hot start, big shot late: 6 takeaways appeared first on Boston.

Jaylen Brown scored the Celtics' first 15 points on five consecutive 3-pointers and finished with 29 points, before Boston withstood a late charge to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 107-105 on Sunday.

This helped the Celtics build a few big leads throughout the game, and at one point Boston was up by 19. Minnesota hung tough, and went on a few scoring outbursts of their own. Late in the game it looked as if the Timberwolves might pull ahead and win the game,