Heading into the Celtics' retooling campaign for the 2025-26 NBA regular season, the general consensus was that Boston was going to be bad after the exits of Al Horford, Jrue Holiday, Luke Kornet, and Kristaps Porzingis in free agency and via trades over the offseason,

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.

Brad Stevens has to weigh several factors when considering Boston's next moves as NBA trade season begins on Monday.

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.

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,

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.

The Celtics have swung at least one in-season trade every year since 2021, ranging in significance from the big swing for Derrick White in 2022 to the modest dumping of Jaden Springer’s salary this past February.