In Game 5 of the 1984 NBA Finals at Boston Garden, the sweltering heat and lack of air conditioning forced Kareem ...

In fact, Bird’s Celtics and Magic’s Lakers met only three times in the NBA Finals: back-to-back in 1984 and ’85, and again in ...

The Boston Celtics have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball ...

At the age of 65, Richard Preston Carlisle — better known as Rick — has spent more than 60 percent of his life in the NBA. To be exact, Carlisle entered the league in 1984, when the Boston Celtics, ...

BOSTON (AP) — Basketball Hall of Famer K.C. Jones, who won eight NBA championships as a Celtics player in the 1960s and two more as the coach of the Celtics team that took the titles in 1984 and '86, ...

The Celtics take Game 7 and the title over the Lakers behind the a balanced effort from Bird, Maxwell, Parish, and Johnson.