Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum ruptured his Achilles tendon during the NBA playoffs last season. The injury is expected to sideline him for the entire next season. His injury has left Boston active in the offseason for all the wrong reasons,

According to a report from NBA reporter Grant Afseth of FastbreakJournal.com, the Celtics appear likely to start Pritchard in the back-court while having Anfernee Simons come off the bench. Simons was the key return from the Portland Trail Blazers in the Holiday trade.

For the first time since early in Brad Stevens’s coaching tenure, the Celtics are not among the upper echelon in the Eastern Conference.

The NBA has formally approved the sale of the Boston Celtics to an investor group led by Bill Chisholm. The league's approval comes nearly five months after the Celtics' ownership agreed to sell the franchise to Chisholm for $6.1 billion, a record for the most a North American professional sports franchise has ever sold for.

Reigning Sixth Man of the Year Payton Pritchard is going to be handed that starting spot, which means Anfernee Simons would come off the bench as the sixth man, reports Grant Afseth at FastbreakJournal.com.

The young hooper is being lauded as Larry Bird's grandson, as being two generations on from the Boston Celtics legend who is one of the greatest players in NBA history. One problem: It's not Larry Bird's grandson.

Today in Boston Celtics history, guard James Young was born in Flint, Michigan in 1995. Young played his NCAA basketball with Kentucky, where he made Second Team All-SEC and SEC All-Freshman Team honors in 2014.