Leandro Barbosa

Boston Red Sox invite Jason Collins to throw out first pitch

2013-04-29 14:18:00

Jason Collins may have spent just 32 games of his 14-year NBA career in a Boston uniform, but the city is stepping up to support the former Celtics center who made a historic announcement Monday. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Collins revealed...

NBA trades: Ronnie Brewer to OKC, J.J. Reddick to Bucks and more

2013-02-22 08:56:00

While the biggest news as the NBA's trade deadline came and went Thursday was that there was no real big news, several transactions that did take place are making headlines a day later now that the dust has settled. Ronnie Brewer gives the Oklahoma City...

Preview: Lakers at Celtics

2013-02-07 08:00:00

With Pau Gasol out with a foot injury and Dwight Howard a question mark with his shoulder, the Lakers (23-26) will have a real challenge when they visit the Boston Celtics (25-23) on Thursday night. The Celtics have won their last five games,...

Why Lakers' hiring of Mike D'Antoni is bad, in 7 seconds or less

2012-11-12 05:00:00

The new Lakers coach famously wants his players to shoot in seven seconds or less. I’m not going to require that long to list the reasons that hiring Mike D'Antoni was yet another Buss blunder. He's never taken a team to an NBA Finals. He has a...

Clippers defeat the Raptors, 103-91

2012-01-22 16:34:07

C's myths miss point

2013-05-09 00:00:00

As we seek to learn which way the waves will break for the Celtics in this offseason, we find it interesting that certain myths have become, at least to some folks, reality. The popular one from a few months ago -- that the Celts would be better without...

Ex-Celt Jason Collins exits closet, makes history

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran who spent the first half of this season with the Celtics, changed the sporting culture with one sentence and one admission to Sports Illustrated yesterday: "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." With...

Scoreboard -- Feb. 21, 2013

2013-02-21 22:21:00

|TV SPORTS| Auto Racing--NASCAR Nationwide Series, DRIVE4COPD 300 pole qualifying, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Men’s College Hockey--Michigan at Ohio State, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Yale at Quinnipiac, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN); North Dakota at Denver, 9 p.m....

Apocalypse for Heat in 2014? Not so fast

2012-12-15 19:58:00

�� OK, we survived 12-12-12 without an apocalypse and, with all due respect to the Mayans, we likely will get past Dec. 21, as well. �� So let's instead move on to the catastrophe some are forecasting for the Miami Heat for 2014-15, when the most...

NBA free agents: Updates on Class of 2012

2012-11-10 14:36:00

An updated look at NBA free agents. Who has signed, who is still available, who has become available: Best of who is left: Kenyon Martin, Josh Howard, Derek Fisher, Chris Andersen, Mickael Pietrus, Mehmet Okur (retired), Maurice Evans, Ryan Gomes,...

U.S. men's basketball team struggles against Brazil

2012-07-16 20:46:00

— There has been much discussion in recent days about how this year's U.S. Olympic men's basketball team stacked up against its most famous predecessors, the Dream Team of 1992. There also has been a good deal of trash talking too by legendary trash...

Larry Bird steps down as president of Indiana Pacers

2012-06-27 12:21:00

Tuesday's reports have officially come into fruition as Larry Bird, president of Basketball Operations for the Indiana Pacers, will not be returning to the organization for the 2012-13 season. The announcement was made official Wednesday afternoon at a...

Carlos Boozer keeps the ball away from the Celtics' Leandro Barbosa.

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Clippers forward Lamar Odom droves to the basket against Celtics forward Kevin Garnett (5) and guard Leandro Barbosa in the first half Sunday.

2013-02-03 00:00:00

LeBron James #6 of the Miami Heat puts up a shot past Danny Granger #33 and Leandro Barbosa #28 of the Indiana Pacers in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals in the 2012 NBA Playoffs at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on May 24, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

2012-05-24 00:00:00