After scoring just 12 points with 4 minutes left in the 1st quarter, they found some answers and outscored the Nets 16-3 the rest of the way. They followed this up by losing the 2nd and 3rd quarter by a combined total of 70-49.

Simons epitomized the reality in front of Boston for that Nets loss, and was not being offered as an excuse for how the Celtics played.

NESN’s Collin Keane took things a step further, predicting that the Dubs will cut ties with Kuminga in favor of an NBA champion Boston Celtics forward. “Kuminga is a $22.5 million cap hit who has a team option for next season, so he’s essentially expiring,” Keane wrote Friday.

The Brooklyn Nets beat the Boston Celtics 113-105 on Friday night for their first victory in the NBA Cup in-season tournament.

After rallying from 18 down to make it a 2-point game with just over five minutes left, the hosts could not stop Porter as Brooklyn won for just the third time this season.

BOSTON — Joe Mazzulla’s definition of fun became a talking point this past weekend when Rusty Smith, a young reporter with Sports Illustrated Kids, asked the Boston Celtics coach how he balances pushing players to improve while keeping the game fun for them.

Naulls was, with Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, Sam Jones, and Tom Sanders, part of the first all-Black lineup in the history of North American pro sports in 1964, and a key part of three of Boston's titles in their golden age of dominance in the mid-1960s. He averaged 10.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game with the Celtics -- rest in peace.