It hasn’t been the seamless start to the season for the Boston Celtics, and the Boston faithful might have scripted in their minds. An 0-3 stumble out of the gate, followed by a recovery, then another dip—it’s been a season of fits and starts.

Derrick White added 15 points for the Celtics, who won their third straight game to improve to 8-7. They played the Nets even for about three quarters before smothering them defensively in the fourth, allowing just one basket for the first 10 minutes of the period.

Finally, it is also the date that Celtics small forward Phil Hankinson left us in 1996. A Penn alum taken by Boston with the 35th overall pick of the 1973 NBA Draft, Hankinson would play two seasons with the Celtics, winning a title in a reserve role in 1974.

Even though the Clippers were relentless down the stretch, the Celtics never let them get the lead Sunday in their clutch victory.

Fresh off their second win of the season on Sunday night, the Nets returned home looking for their first win at the Barclays Center in 224 days. Standing in th

Brooklyn Nets coach Jordi Fernandez didn't want to dwell on the negatives after their loss to the Boston Celtics on Tuesday.

Bias shared his birthday with former Celtics center Garfield Smith, born this day in 1945 in Campbellsville, Kentucky. An alum of Eastern Kentucky University, Garfield was picked 32nd overall in the 1968 NBA Draft. The Kentucky native played two seasons with the Celtics, averaging 2.7 points and 2.1 rebounds per game.

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